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Apr 15, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Sebastian Barry |Louis De Bernieres |John Banville |David Clensy
Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…The book deals movingly with the issues around historic child sex abuse in the Catholic church in Ireland. Barry said his period as Laureate for Irish Fiction (2019–2021) stopped him from “thinking about himself” as a writer and gave him a sense of “a public role,” which ultimately opened the door to him taking on this enormously challenging subject matter.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
aarp.org | Sebastian Barry |Louise Kennedy |John Boyne
Named a best book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker and The Washington Post, Barry’s ninth novel focuses on Tom Kettle, a 66-year-old recently retired police officer. Kettle has settled in a cottage near the Irish Sea, seeking only to be “stationary, happy and useless.” But his solitude is disturbed by two former colleagues with unsettling questions about a long-ago case that dredge up dark memories.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
polityka.pl | Sebastian Barry
Diabeł, zaczynam podejrzewać wraz z wielkim smutkiem, którego mi to przysparza, ma większe poczucie sprawiedliwości niż ten drugi. Billa nie ma.
Jaki odgłos wydaje pękające osiemdziesięciodziewięcioletnie serce? Przypuszczalnie niewiele głośniejszy od ciszy, na pewno słaby, ledwie słyszalny.
Kiedy miałam cztery lata, za sprawą osobliwej instancji weszłam w posiadanie porcelanowej lalki.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
dublinliteraryaward.ie | Emma Donoghue |Jonathan Escoffery |Sebastian Barry |Alexis Wright
Discover the 2024 Longlist, featuring 6 books nominated by 6 libraries from 6 countries around the world. Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To. He won a PEN Translates grant for his translation of The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae and a PEN/Heim grant for Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny (shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize).
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
bibliosurf.com | Sebastian Barry
Accueil> Tops, genres, pays et tags> Littératureseuropéennes> Littérature irlandaiseFil du web4ème de couvTom Kettle, un inspecteur de police fraîchement retraité, coule des jours tranquilles à Dalkey, une petite station balnéaire de la banlieue dublinoise. Il a pour seule compagnie ses voisins et le souvenir encore vif de ses proches : sa femme, June, mais aussi sa fille et son fils, Winnie et Joseph, tous prématurément disparus.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Sebastian Barry |Michael Hofmann
I’ve been here before, you think, I’ve seen this movie before: the detective, cashiered or retired or disabled, his one-time colleagues can’t let him go, there’s a three-quarters cold case they need his help with. And Sebastian Barry is a writer who in his darksome romances offers, perhaps even craves, proximity to popular films, to genre, to Westerns and war movies and noir.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Sebastian Barry |Jane Garvey
When and where are you most likely to be found reading? Almost anytime and anywhere, but I love to find myself reading far too late in bed, when a book does that magic thing of catching a hold of you. Which books are on your bedside table? Steven Isserlis’s The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion, Mary Jean Chan’s new book of poems, Bright Fear, and a volume of Paris Review interviews with writers. Which book do you keep meaning to read but never get around to?
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
quicktelecast.com | Sebastian Barry |Sarah Bernstein |Jonathan Escoffery |Elaine Feeney
Canadian author Sarah Bernstein is among the 13 authors longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. The £50,000 (approx. $84,816 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.Bernstein is longlisted for Study for Obedience. The novel explores themes of guilt, abuse and prejudice through the eyes of its unreliable narrator.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
cbc.ca | Sebastian Barry |Sarah Bernstein |Jonathan Escoffery |Elaine Feeney
Canadian author Sarah Bernstein is among the 13 authors longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. The £50,000 (approx. $84,816 Cdn) prize annually recognizes the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K.Bernstein is longlisted for Study for Obedience. The novel explores themes of guilt, abuse and prejudice through the eyes of its unreliable narrator.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
redbrick.me | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Toni Morrison |Danez Smith |Sebastian Barry
Content warning: These recommendations reference racism, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWinner of the 2007 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, this book is the perfect one to begin with. Adichie’s novel imagines the intersection of various lives in 1960s Nigeria, including Ugwu, who works as a houseboy, and Olanna, who gives up her old life for love.
