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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1988
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 15 titles




  • Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is acclaimed Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's lyrical tale of a fugitive everyman.Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days...



  • "Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel." -- The New York Times Book ReviewSebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. It is 1959 in Wic...



  • A powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's Time In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his famil...



  • As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her ...



  • Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of th...



  • A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of "The Secret Scripture" In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War I...



  • Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens' ...



  • From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the divided loyalties of Protestants and Catholics in the Elizabethan Age. ...






  • OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW See, love between a man and a woman, it's - private. It happens where you never do see it. In rooms. Italy 1 - Ireland 0... The score that marked ...



  • Whistling PsycheA dark night, an old waiting room and two supposed strangers eager to reach their destinations. In the cold hours that rest between nightfall and daybreak, silent questions prompt unexpected revelations. Two souls share a passion f...



  • A powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole,...



  • From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzling new novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional ...



  • On Blueberry Hill is the latest Audible Original theatrical event, from international best-selling novelist and acclaimed writer, Sebastian Barry. Best friends and worst enemies, Christy and PJ are destined to spend their lives together over the...



  • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZENamed a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews“You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart.” -- The Atlantic“A prose stylist o...


Award-Winning Books by Sebastian Barry

The Secret Scripture
2008 Costa Book Award -- Book of the Year
2008 Costa Book Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sebastian Barry has published 15 books.

Sebastian Barry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Old God's Time, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Sebastian Barry, The Engine of Owl-light, was published in April 1988.

No. Sebastian Barry does not write books in series.