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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he ...Show more
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title is shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Forty 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 ...Show more
Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
28.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Winner of the Sunday Times short story prize b> b>Shortlisted for the Edge Hill short story prize 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... Da ...Show more
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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? Night Boat to Tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death and narcot ...Show more
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and his award-winning second book, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short-story writers. In this third collection, That Old Country Music, we encounter a ragbag of west ...Show more
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Full of love, melancholy and magic - the new story collection from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier. '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 ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024AN OBSERVER FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024AN IRISH TIMES FICTION TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vi ...Show more
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker of the town, but also a doper, a drink ...Show more
There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
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 ste ...Show more
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