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Night Boat to Tangier

Night Boat to Tangier
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Algeciras, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The book moves between fiction Berehaven in Ireland and Algeciras. It’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...

City of Bohane

City of Bohane
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 2053

Set in 2053 in Sligo/Galway/Limerick. The binding story here is about love. Two men, one woman, a shared place. Bohane itself is separated by class, tribe, vision. One of the men is Logan Hartnett, who runs the Fancy, the...

That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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 most accomplished and gifted short story writers. Barry’s lyric intensity,...

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