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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, THE
DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS AND THE KERRY GROUP AWARDS A BOOK OF THE
YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, i, THE ATLANTIC and LITERARY HUB 'A true
wonder' Max Porter 'Beautifully written' Guardian It's late one
night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish
gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been
lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder -
can it be put together again?
This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter,
darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast
girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a
small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in
pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country
bus in search of his identity - and a stiff drink. These stories,
filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably
surefooted collection that reads like a modern-day Dubliners.
"Extraordinary . . . Barry takes us on a roaring journey . . .
Powerful, exuberant fiction." --"The New York Times Book Review"
(front cover)
Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on
the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and
split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it
is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of
the North Rises, and the eerie bogs of the Big Nothin' that the
city really lives. For years it has all been under the control of
Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang.
But there's trouble in the air. They say Hartnett's old nemesis is
back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his
missus wants him to give it all up and go straight. Kevin Barry's
"City of Bohane" combines Celtic myth and a Caribbean beat, fado
and film, graphic-novel cool and all the ripe inheritance of Irish
literature to create something hilarious, beautiful, and
startlingly new.
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK
AWARDS "John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the
story of his strangest trip." A novel of family, ghosts, love,
music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey
through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a
maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace. With his deadpan
Irish driver, Cornelius, at his side, John is hellbent on reaching
the Island of Dorinish, an assignment he arranged ten years before.
Lyrical, freewheeling, quixotic and fun, Beatlebone is a sad and
beautiful comedy.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 'One of the best
collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty
stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer In this rapturous story
collection we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters,
many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and
epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as
one of the world's most accomplished and gifted writers, and show
an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where
older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's
sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortazar is
truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously
fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry A grieving
family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated
love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills
over into brutality. A lodger's inability to stop vomiting bunny
rabbits inspires a personal confession. As dream melds into
reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains
throughout these thirty-five stories: the singular brilliance of
Julio Cortazar's imagination. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN
BARRY 'Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed' Pablo Neruda
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Sex & Death - Stories (Paperback, Main)
Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs; Contributions by Kevin Barry, Ali Smith, Jon McGregor
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How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the
governing drives, our two greatest themes. In this provocative and
haunting collection of short stories, acclaimed writers probe the
nature of, and connection between two of the most powerful,
exhilarating and terrifying forces that define and shape the human
experience: sex and death.
'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I
think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's
non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the
functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history,
England's literature and empire. This collection includes newspaper
articles, reviews, lectures, and propagandizing essays that are
consciously public, direct, and communicative. It covers forty
years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his opinions
about politics, especially Irish politics, about the relationship
of literature to history, and about writers who remained important
to him such as Mangan, Blake, Defoe, Ibsen, Wilde, and Shaw. These
pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's
fiction, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
to the first drafts of Ulysses. Gathering together more than fifty
essays, several of which have never been available in an English
edition, this volume is the most complete and the most helpfully
annotated collection. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Made in Dublin winner of Photography category in the British Design
and Production Awards 'A singular new vision and an original
contribution to the development of street photography' Martin Parr
Focused on D1, Dublin's city centre, Eamonn Doyle's three major
bodies of work, 'i', 'On' and 'End' - with new and previously
unpublished images brought together here for the first time - tell
the tale of today's Dublin and, in doing so, tell a broader story
of today's Ireland. Setting aside the nostalgia and cliche so often
seen in 'stories of Ireland', Doyle's vernacular photography is a
thrill to the system, revealing the extraordinary within the
ordinary to paint a striking portrait of a modern and multicultural
capital city. Vivified in colour, the commonplace is seen anew, the
everyday made epic as the city's inhabitants appear in stark,
graphic black and white going about their daily business. Far from
pedestrian, Doyle's work is the archetype of good street
photography: real life brought to life through the lens and voice
of the street. Punctuating the photography with specially
commissioned narratives is the distinctive voice of Kevin Barry,
evoking the world beyond the frame: the sights, smells, sounds and
sensations of a Dubliner's daily life. Designed by Doyle's longtime
collaborator Niall Sweeney, fusing contemporary Irish word and
contemporary Irish image, Made in Dublin is one of the most
exciting and original books of street photography in recent years.
**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award** 'A
electrifying masterpiece' Joseph O'Connor The once-great city of
Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by
vice and split along tribal lines. There are still some posh parts
of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the
tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big
Nothin' that the city really lives. For years, Bohane has been in
the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the
Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. But now they
say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are
getting ambitious; and there's trouble in the air... **One of the
BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Shortlisted for the Costa
First Novel Award Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel
Award
Winner of the Sunday Times short story prize Winner of the Edge
Hill short story prize A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at
the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP
kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult
weirdness in the backwoods... Dark Lies the Island is a collection
of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes,
desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as
'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these
islands in years'. Every page is shot through with the riotous
humour, sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a
pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales.
Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin
Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with
previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh
renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new
modes of attack. Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited
by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and
featured Kevin Barry's 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' - winner of the
2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by
William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be
Afternoon Readings on BBC Radio 4.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 'One of the best
collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty
stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer Since his landmark debut
collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its award-winning sequel
in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as
one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short story
writers. Barry's lyric intensity, the vitality of his comedy and
the darkness of his vision recall the work of masters of the genre
like Flannery O'Connor and William Trevor, but he has forged a
style which is patently his own. In this rapturous third
collection, we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters,
many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and
epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories show an Ireland in a
condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms,
and an older magic, somehow persist.
We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our
own, to learn, to see with others' eyes. The 32 is a celebration of
working-class voices from the island of Ireland. Edited by
award-winning novelist Paul McVeigh, this intimate and illuminating
collection features memoir and essays from established and emerging
Irish voices including Kevin Barry, Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle,
Lisa McInerney, Lyra McKee and many more. Too often, working-class
writers find that the hurdles they come up against are higher and
harder to leap over than those faced by writers from more affluent
backgrounds. As in Common People - an anthology of working-class
writers edited by Kit de Waal and the inspiration behind this
collection - The 32 sees writers who have made that leap reach back
to give a helping hand to those coming up behind. Without these
working-class voices, without the vital reflection of real lives or
role models for working-class readers and writers, literature will
be poorer. We will all be poorer.
These are the recollections seen through the eyes of a young Irish
boy growing up in Notting Hill and Chelsea in the 1950s and 1960s
with its trials and tribulations. However, great joy, poignancy,
humour, and sadness that shines through from an era now long gone.
It is a living testament to the love, courage, and fortitude of the
human spirit which can always come shining through in any trial or,
indeed, any tribulation.
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