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Diverse and moving, these six outstanding stories are meditations on grief and loss, love, communication and loneliness. Each one will take the reader on a brief yet unforgettable journey into private worlds and unexpected corners of the human heart.

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, IRISH INDEPENDENT, IRISH EXAMINER, TLS, SCOTSMAN, THE TIMES AND ECONOMIST What if we ride out tonight? What if we ride...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, IRISH INDEPENDENT, I, THE ATLANTIC, PARIS REVIEW and LITERARY HUB 'A true...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award Winner of the Authors' Club Best 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...

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 FROM THE ECONOMIST AND THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE 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 with Flann O’Brien; a western but also...

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 Tangier. With three novels and two short story...

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2019 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Paris Review, and NPR No. 1 Irish Times Bestseller Longlisted for The Booker Prize From the acclaimed author of the international sensations...

Es ist später Abend im Hafen von Algeciras. Im dunklen Warteraum des Fährterminals sitzen zwei alternde Iren, langjährige Partner im lukrativen, aber gefährlichen Geschäft des Drogenschmuggels, und erwarten Dilly, die verschollene Tochter des einen. Sie haben gehört, dass sie in dieser Oktobernacht entweder auf einem Boot aus Tanger ankommt oder auf einem Boot in Richtung Tanger abfährt. Diese Nachtwache ist der Auftakt zu einer außergewöhnlichen Reise in die Vergangenheit, ihre gemeinsame Geschichte. Eine Geliebte ist verloren, eine Tochter verschwunden, eine Welt zerbrochen − kann sie wieder zusammengefügt werden?

Custody! Divorce! Parenting time! Money! Disagreements over children! Custody and Divorce Lawyers Marjie Nielsen, Barry C. Boykin and Kevin R. Johnson have more than 70 combined years of experience. They know first-hand the court battles, psychological warfare, pain and frustration that parents, spouses, partners and children endure as disputes are resolved in the family-court system. From their perspective as Chicago attorneys, Barry, Marjie and Kevin attempt to bring hope and clarity to a troubled world, where lawyers, judges and other professionals see the best and worst of human behavior ...

Escritores frustrados, bebedores empedernidos, oscuros embrujos, besos que no llegan, los monstruos y demonios y miedos que pueblan la mente, un sátiro avieso, adolescentes descontrolados, jóvenes atormentados y familias perfectamente disfuncionales son solo una muestra de todo lo que el autor de la perversa "Ciudad de Bohane" (2015, ganadora del Premio IMPAC en 2013), Kevin Barry, nos presenta en esta obra.

From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Comedian Wyatt Cenac gives a killer performance of Simon Rich’s hilarious tale of woe from the point of view of a condom in a young man’s wallet. Alec Baldwin gives a delightful over-the-top performance of James Thurber’s wonderfully silly classic tale of the day everybody in a small Ohio town thought the dam broke.

The explosion in storytelling festivals and one-person shows demonstrate that Americans are growing disenchanted with the mass media and returning to the simple pleasures of a well-told story. Here is a survey of great contemporary monologues, including excerpts by Spalding Gray, Lynda Barry, Tom Bodett, and Peter Matthiessen.

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip. John owns a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland...

Logan Hartnett y su banda han dominado la ciudad de Bohane durante años, pero su viejo rival, Gant Broderick, está de vuelta y quiere reconquistar la ciudad y el corazón de Macu, esposa de Hartnett. A la guerra de bandas se unirán también los Cusack de Las Lomas, la adolescente fatal Jenni Ching, su novio Lobato Stanners o la nonagenaria Nena. Estos personajes lucharán para decidir el destino de la ciudad, ignorando que es ciudad Bohane quien decide el destino de todos ellos.

'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...