Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award - this is a""cool, comic, violent and lyrical debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers. 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...
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award - this is a""cool, comic, violent and lyric...
A new book from the winner of the 2012 "Sunday Times" EFG Private Bank 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, 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...
A new book from the winner of the 2012 "Sunday Times" EFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the...
Broukobol se točí kolem postavy Johna Lennona, člena legendární britské kapely Beatles. Zachycuje bývalého Brouka v roce 1978, na sklonku života i kariéry, a splétáním fikce a faktu vytváří jakýsi portrét umělce v neplodných letech. Je to ovšem portrét komicky zatížený osobností vypravěče. Ten se při svém putování v Lennonových stopách vypravuje do tajemných míst – včetně jednoho pustého západoirského ostrova –, v nichž je zvláštním způsobem polapena minulost: lze ji tam odkoukat a odposlouchat, a tak ji znovu prožít. Broukobol je vlastně...
Broukobol se točí kolem postavy Johna Lennona, člena legendární britské kapely Beatles. Zachycuje bývalého Brouka v roce 1978, na sklonku živ...
LONGLISTED 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.
LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilar...
