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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2011
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • 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 reache...



  • Sometimes, during those few, brief moments between being fast asleep and wide awake, you may catch a glimpse of another world. Another world which exists alongside ours, yet remains unseen by all but a lucky few.Such a world is the Kingdom of Rockham...



  • 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 enthus...



  • 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winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new m...



  • * Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Book Award in the First Novel category *A blazingly original, wildly stylish, and pulpy debut novel"City of Bohane, the extraordinary first novel by the Irish writer Kevin Barry, is full of marvels. They are all liter...



  • 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winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, n...



  • An award-winning collection from the author of City of Bohane, which was hailed by Pete Hamill as "full of marvels" (The New York Times Book Review)* Short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award * Winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Award...



  • Nurse Nikki Wharton dropped to her knees, pressed her palms together and said a silent prayer for the soul of Gloria Appleby. Nikki had always been devout in her faith. She believed that Mrs Appleby had gone to a better place. Her belief was profound...



  • A searing, surreal novel that blends 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 C...






  • ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK GO TO CHARITY

    In the tiny outback town of Colombo Creek, Reverend Charles Albertson makes a gruesome discovery. One of his parishioners, a quiet, reclusive man is found mutilated and murdered.



  • Ireena Lothario, the beautiful, Russian born, wife of Australian mining magnate Oscar Lothario, is kidnapped, then brutally and senselessly murdered. Detective Inspector Andrew Daniels is charged with finding her killer.

    Barely coping with t...



  • Irina Lothario, the beautiful, Russian born, wife of Australian mining magnate Oscar Lothario, is kidnapped, then brutally and senselessly murdered. Detective Inspector Andrew Daniels is charged with finding her killer.

    Barely coping with th...



  • Have you ever wondered whatever happened to all those Nuclear weapons we all used to worry about?

    In 1991 the Iron curtain came down, the USA and the former United Soviet Socialist Republic signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, thousa...



  • From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the tail ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beauti...



  • Recently discharged from the Australian army, Simon meets a beautiful woman while travelling to Far North Queensland in Australia. They fall in love. When they reach the city of Cairns they encounter a man called Wilson. Wilson is the head of a se...



  • This is book two in the Flying Tiger series. Please read book one, 'Charlotte and the Morthe' first.

    In an attempt to get more kids reading all my children's books are free as e-books and always will be.

    In the kingdom of Faladi...



  • A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today -- from the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to...



  • The Paradox Register' tells the story of 'You' the keeper of the Paradox Register. The Paradox Register is a document which lists names, dates and events which, if changed, will adversely affect the future of mankind in the years and centuries to com...



  • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: THE LA TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE! • Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana."A wedding of Cormac McCarthy ...






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Award-Winning Books by Kevin Barry

City of Bohane
2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kevin Barry has published 20 books.

Kevin Barry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Heart in Winter, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Kevin Barry, There Are Little Kingdoms: Stories, was published in January 2011.

No. Kevin Barry does not write books in series.