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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A darkly incantatory tragicomedy of love and betrayal ... Beautifully paced, emotionally wise.” —The Boston GlobeIn the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice H... Read More about Night Boat to Tangier

It's a snowy winter's night in the city. The bedroom lights are off and it's time to settle down to sleep. But wait What's that? Strange and scary sounds are coming from the streets outside. What can be making these sounds? Are monsters coming? Don't worry All will soon be revealed. These monsters... Read More about Street Monsters

ONE OF BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • LIBRARY JOURNALA 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 B... Read More about That Old Country Music: Stories

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.October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debau... Read More about The Heart in Winter: A Novel

"Extraordinary . . . Barry takes us on a roaring journey . . . Powerful, exuberant fiction." —The New York Times Book Review (front cover)Forty or so 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 ... Read More about City of Bohane: A Novel