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**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award**‘A electrifying masterpiece’ Joseph O’ConnorThe 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 Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and there's trouble in the air...**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel AwardWinner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

Winner of the Sunday Times short story prizeWinner of the Edge Hill short story prizeA 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, and 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 blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales.

'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism'James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, England's literature and empire. This collection includes newspaper articles, reviews, lectures, and propagandizing essays that are consciously public, direct, and communicative. It covers forty years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his opinions about politics, especially Irish politics, about the relationship of literature to history, and about writers who remained important to him such as Mangan, Blake, Defoe, Ibsen, Wilde, and Shaw.These pieces also clarify and illuminate the transformations in Joyce's fiction, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the first drafts of Ulysses. Gathering together more than fifty essays, several of which have never been available in an English edition, this volume is the most complete and the most helpfully annotated collection. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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 modes of attack.Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' - winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be Afternoon Readings on BBC Radio 4.

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 modes of attack.Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' - winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be Afternoon Readings on BBC Radio 4.

**Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award**‘A electrifying masterpiece’ Joseph O’ConnorThe 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 Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and there's trouble in the air...**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel AwardWinner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

Winner of the Sunday Times short story prizeWinner of the Edge Hill short story prizeA 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, and 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 blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales.

These are the recollections seen through the eyes of a young Irish boy growing up in Notting Hill and Chelsea in the 1950s and 1960s with its trials and tribulations. However, great joy, poignancy, humour, and sadness that shines through from an era now long gone. It is a living testament to the love, courage, and fortitude of the human spirit which can always come shining through in any trial or, indeed, any tribulation.

A Firsthand Account from a CDC Insider on the Link between Vaccines and AutismVaccine Whistleblower is a gripping account of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr. Brian Hooker, a scientist investigating autism and vaccine research, and Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist in the vaccine safety division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Thompson, who is still employed at the CDC under protection of the federalWhistleblower Protection Act, discloses a pattern of data manipulation, fraud, and corruption at the highest levels of the CDC, the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans. Thompson states, “Senior people just do completely unethical, vile things and no one holds them accountable.”This book nullifies the government’s claims that “vaccines are safe and effective,” and reveals that the government rigged research to cover up the link between vaccines and autism. Scientific truth and the health of American children have been compromised to protect the vaccine program and the pharmaceutical industry.The financial cost of the CDC’s corruption is staggering. The human cost is incalculable. Vaccine Whistleblower provides context to the implications of Thompson’s revelations and directs the reader to political action.

A Firsthand Account from a CDC Insider on the Link between Vaccines and AutismVaccine Whistleblower is a gripping account of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr. Brian Hooker, a scientist investigating autism and vaccine research, and Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist in the vaccine safety division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Thompson, who is still employed at the CDC under protection of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act, discloses a pattern of data manipulation, fraud, and corruption at the highest levels of the CDC, the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans. Thompson states, “Senior people just do completely unethical, vile things and no one holds them accountable.”This book nullifies the government’s claims that “vaccines are safe and effective,” and reveals that the government rigged research to cover up the link between vaccines and autism. Scientific truth and the health of American children have been compromised to protect the vaccine program and the pharmaceutical industry.The financial cost of the CDC’s corruption is staggering. The human cost is incalculable. Vaccine Whistleblower provides context to the implications of Thompson’s revelations and directs the reader to political action.

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS"John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip."A novel of family, ghosts, love, music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace. With his deadpan Irish driver, Cornelius, at his side, John is hellbent on reaching the Island of Dorinish, an assignment he arranged ten years before. Lyrical, freewheeling, quixotic and fun, Beatlebone is a sad and beautiful comedy.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS AND THE KERRY GROUP AWARDSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, BIG ISSUE, i, THE ATLANTIC and LITERARY HUB'A true wonder' Max Porter'Beautifully written' GuardianIt's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?

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 reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country bus in search of his identity - and a stiff drink. These stories, filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably surefooted collection that reads like a modern-day Dubliners.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' ObserverIn 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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEARTHE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, IRISH INDEPENDENT, IRISH EXAMINER, TLS, SCOTSMAN, THE TIMES AND ECONOMISTWhat if we ride out tonight?What if we ride out and never once look back?October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker, but also a doper, a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly and they strike out west on a stolen horse, moving through the badlands of Montana and Idaho. Briefly an idyll of wild romance perfects itself. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are soon in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast . . .

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEARTHE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, IRISH INDEPENDENT, IRISH EXAMINER, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, SCOTSMAN, THE TIMES AND ECONOMISTAN i-PAPER AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WALTER SCOTT PRIZEWINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN'An absolute belter of a book' ANNE ENRIGHTHe was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. His life is heading nowhere fast. That is until he meets Polly Gillespie, the new bride of a devout mine captain, and a thunderbolt love affair takes spark.Tom and Polly strike out west on a stolen horse. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast . . .

Bohane ist ein heimtückischer, mörderischer, intriganter Ort – und verdammt sexy. Eine Stadt voll brutaler Killer und Ganoven. Das Buch erzählt von einem Bandenführer, dessen Herrschaft zu Ende geht, und ist anders als alles, was Sie zuvor gelesen haben. Ein Buch für alle, die eine grellbunte, vergnügte Zeit verbringen wollen.Die einst bedeutende Stadt Bohane an der irischen Westküste liegt darnieder. Es herrschen Gewalt und Chaos, die Clans sind gespalten. Auch wenn noch ein wenig vom alten Glanz geblieben ist, findet das eigentliche Leben in den Slums und verwahrlosten Wohnblocks von Smoketown statt. Scheinbar seit Ewigkeiten steht alles unter der Kontrolle von Logan Hartnett, dem adretten Paten der Hartnett-Fancy-Gang. Aber es liegt Ärger in der Luft. Gerüchte gehen um, dass Logans Erzfeind Gant Broderick nach fünfundzwanzig Jahren zurück in der Stadt ist, und seine Schergen entwickeln auf einmal ihren ganz eigenen Ehrgeiz. Logans bessere Hälfte drängt ihn, alles aufzugeben und sich zurückzuziehen. Doch da kennt die Missus ihren Langen Lulatsch schlecht.

1978: John Lennon flieht aus New York, um auf sein Inselchen vor der irischen Westküste zu fahren, das er neun Jahre zuvor gekauft hat. Zurück lässt er Gedanken an den drohenden 40. Geburtstag, eine tiefe Schaffenskrise und die quälende Erinnerung an seine Eltern. Nur drei Tage in beruhigender Einsamkeit verbringen - mehr verlangt er gar nicht. Doch als er sich in die Hände eines mit viel irischem Charme und Schrulligkeit ausgestatteten Chauffeurs begibt, beginnt eine hindernisreiche Magical Mystery Tour."Beatlebone" führt einen in jeder Hinsicht an die Grenzen - der westlichen Welt, der geistigen Gesundheit, des Ruhms, der Worte. Und, nicht zuletzt, an die des Romans, dorthin, wo er auf seine Doppelgängerin trifft, die Autobiographie. Denn diese faszinierende Erzählung aus dem Kopf eines der größten Popgiganten des 20. Jahrhunderts wird unversehens zu einer Meditation über den kreativen Prozess im allgemeinen, über die verblüffende Verbindung von Autor und Figur. Ihr Schöpfer, Kevin Barry, gilt vor allem wegen seiner überbordend lyrischen Sprache als der musikalische Dichterfürst Irlands und als eines seiner größten literarischen Talente.

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?«Nachtfähre nach Tanger», das Meisterwerk des preisgekrönten Kevin Barry, ist ein Roman voller Sex, Tod und Drogen, jäher Gewalt und alter Magie. Jeder Satz ist Musik, jeder Absatz lüftet ein Geheimnis, vor allem aber geht es um die Mysterien der Liebe. Ein Werk voll melancholischer Schönheit, Komik und lyrischer Brillanz.

Montana, im Jahr 1891. Die Stadt Butte floriert durch ihre Kupferminen, doch unter den hart arbeitenden irischen Einwanderern regiert das Laster. Der trinkfreudige Balladenschreiber Tom Rourke schlägt sich durchs Leben, indem er Liebesbriefe für analphabetische Wanderarbeiter verfasst. Er hat Schulden in jedem Saloon und wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass sein Leben in einer Sackgasse steckt. Just in diesem Moment trifft er Polly Gillespie, die frisch angetraute Gemahlin eines frommen Minenaufsehers. Zwischen Tom und Polly entbrennt eine heftige Liebesromanze, und die beiden fliehen auf einem gestohlenen Pferd durch die Badlands von Montana. Doch bald schon ist ihnen ein Trupp durchgeknallter Kopfgeldjäger auf den Fersen, um Polly zu ihrem Mann zurückzubringen …

La ciutat de Bohane és la gran protagonista d''aquesta història. Empestada pel vici, l''ambició i la corrupció, és l''escenari de la lluita de bandes que competeixen pel control de la ciutat. Logan Hartnett i els seus l''han dominat durant uns anys de calma, però hi ha rumors que el seu vell rival, el Gant Broderick, ha tornat i vol reconquerir tant el poder com el cor de la Macu, l''esposa de Hartnett. Els Cusack dels Colls, enemics ancestrals dels Pixavins d''en Hartnett, també miraran d''aprofitar aquest probable moment de debilitat. L''adolescent fatal Jenni Ching i el seu enamorat el Llop Stanners o la nonagenària Nina Hartnett faran també els seus moviments per a decidir el destí de la ciutat de Bohane. En la seva primera novel·la, Kevin Barry es mostra com un autor visionari que combina influències del cinema i la novel·la gràfica amb la millor tradició literària irlandesa. El llenguatge, que va dels registres literaris als dels baixos fons, la sensació de perill i, de vegades, l''humor, fan de Ciutat de Bohane una novel·la trepidant, una d''aquelles obres de gènere que es transforma en alta literatura.

John Lennon va comprar una illa a Irlanda. Aquesta és la història del fascinant viatge que va fer deu anys després per trobar l''illa, però sobretot per trobar-se a si mateix.Fugint de la premsa, Lennon intenta asserenar l''esperit i superar així els fantasmes que el persegueixen i li bloquegen la creativitat. Per aconseguir-ho, un conductor irlandès d''allò més peculiar li farà de guia espiritual improvisat.Després de Ciutat de Bohane, Beatlebone (obra guanyadora del Premi Goldsmith 2015) és la segona incursió de Kevin Barry en el camp de la novel·la, amb resultats igualment extraordinaris. Amb un domini sublim del llenguatge i dels personatges, Barry ens ensenya el Lennon més autèntic, el de l''humor canviant i l''ànim atribolat, i ens submergeix en l''exploració del passat propi, els orígens, el que hem fet i el que hem deixat per fer.

John Lennon compró una isla en Irlanda. Ésta es la historia del fascinante viaje que hizo diez años después para encontrar la isla, pero sobre todo para encontrarse a sí mismo. Huyendo de la prensa, Lennon intenta calmar el espíritu y superar así los fantasmas que lo persiguen y le bloquean la creatividad. Para lograr esto, un conductor irlandés de lo más peculiar le hará de guía espiritual improvisado.Después de Ciudad de Bohane, Beatlebone (obra ganadora del Premio Goldsmith 2015) es la segunda incursión de Kevin Barry en el campo de la novela, con resultados igualmente extraordinarios. Con un dominio sublime del lenguaje y de los personajes, Barry nos muestra al Lennon más auténtico, el de humor cambiante y el ánimo atribulado, y nos sumerge en la exploración del pasado propio, los orígenes, lo que hemos hecho y lo que hemos dejado por hacer.