Once one of the most beguiling women in Sligo, she is now a resident of Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital and nearing her hundredth year. An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. Penguin Books. In the secret scripture, ireland, the setting for his previous three books, Barry revisits County Sligo, to tell the unforgettable story of Roseanne McNulty.

Set against an ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an engrossing tale of one woman's life, and a poignant story of the cruelties of civil war and corrupted power. The secret scripture is now a film starring Rooney Mara, Eric Bana, and Vanessa Redgrave. Now a major motion picture starring Rooney Mara.

Sebastian barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. Sebastian barry's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2005 his novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

A Long Long Way

Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home.

Praised as a “master storyteller” the wall street journal and hailed for his “flawless use of language” Boston Herald, Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available.

In 1914, willie dunne, leaves behind dublin, barely eighteen years old, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. With grace and power, sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.

Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end.

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

Hailed by the san francisco chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year, " The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is acclaimed Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's lyrical tale of a fugitive everyman. Sebastian barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. For eneas mcnulty, a happy, innocent childhood in County Sligo in the early 1900s gives way to an Ireland wracked by violence and conflict.

His wandering terminates on the Isle of Dogs, a haven for sailors, where a lifetime of loss is redeemed by a final act of generosity. Branded a traitor by irish nationalists and pursued by IRA hitmen, and Viv, his family, Eneas is forced to flee his homeland, the woman he loves. The whereabouts of eneas mcNulty is the story of a lost man and a compelling saga that illuminates Ireland's complex history.

Unable to find work in the depressed times after World War I, Eneas joins the British-led police force, the Royal Irish Constabulary—a decision that alters the course of his life.

Days Without End: A Novel

Costa book of the year award winnerlonglisted for the 2017 man booker prize"a true leftfield wonder: days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making. Kazuo ishiguro, aged barely seventeen and having fled the great famine in ireland, comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars Thomas McNulty, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried GiantFrom the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” Wall Street Journal, signs up for the U.

S. Army in the 1850s. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. With his brother in arms, ultimately, thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the Sioux and the Yurok—and, John Cole, the Civil War.

An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

On Canaan's Side: A Novel

Longlisted for the man booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. A first-person narrative of lilly bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill.

Lilly, the daughter of a dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in america, where—far from her family—she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, love, family ties, war, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose.

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Annie Dunne

Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel. The new york times book reviewSebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. It is 1959 in wicklow, ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah's small farm running.

Used book in Good Condition. Suddenly, annie's young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that the two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.

A summer of adventure, loss, pain, epiphany unfolds for both the children and their caretakers in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, and, delight, ultimately, and reconciliation.

The Temporary Gentleman: A Novel

Used book in Good Condition. A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. Irishman jack mcnulty is a “temporary gentleman”—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent.

Sitting in his lodgings in accra, Ghana, in 1957, he’s writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen.

A lifetime of war and world travel—as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer—has brought him to this point. Award-winning author sebastian barry’s The Temporary Gentleman is the sixth book in his cycle of separate yet interconnected novels that brilliantly reimagine characters from Barry’s own family.

Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp.

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Grene eric bana arrives, he takes a keen interest in Rose. He finds a hidden memoir, that unravels the mystery of her wartime love, written over the course of decades by Rose, incarceration, and the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life. When new chief psychiatrist Dr. Shrink-wrapped. Rose mcnulty vanessa redgrave/rooney Mara, once a vibrant and lively beauty, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in Ireland.

Institutionalized during the war and kept there for so long, no one seems to remember why Rose was hospitalized in the first place. Used book in Good Condition.

Return of the Butterfly The Fleur Trilogy

Thanks to her fascination with the void; a vivid imagination; a loving, extended family; and a couple of dogs named Hot Sauce and Good Time Charlie, if eccentric, she finds her way to surprising new ground. Used book in Good Condition. How do you maintain your balance in a world turned upside down? buffeted by dire winds of climate change, bullying and loss, Nobel scientist and odd duck extraordinaire Fleur Robins rides rough waves of sexual betrayal and gender fluidity, as she and her physics team speed up their efforts to ensure a viable future for the world’s children—including her own.

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Someone: A Novel

Picador USA. Through her first heartbreak and eventual marriage; her delicate brother's brief stint as a Catholic priest and his emotional breakdown; her career as a funeral director's "consoling angel"; the deaths of her parents and the births of her children-we follow Marie through the changing world of the twentieth century and her Irish-American enclave.

Rendered with remarkable empathy and insight, with passion and heartbreak, Someone is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived, a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today. An ordinary life-its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion-lived by an ordinary, but unforgettable woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel.

We first glimpse marie commeford as a child: a girl in thick glasses observing her pre-Depression world from a Brooklyn stoop. Shrink-wrapped. Used book in Good Condition.

Normal People

Elif batuman, author of the possessed and tHE IDIOT; It's all I want to talk about. Picador USA. I can't wait to see what she does next. Sheila heti, author of motherhood and how should a person be; i couldn't put Normal People down - I didn't think I could love it as much as Conversations with Friends, but I did.

. Sally rooney has produced a second novel, Normal People. It's even more unusual and assured than her first book. About the author: sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin. Her second novel normal People was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. The best novel published this year. How brilliant to feel so excited about a new novel.

Rooney was also shortlisted for the sunday times efG Short Story Award for 'Mr Salary' and was the winner of the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. It is superb. Sally rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction. It is totally exhilarating in its naturalness, as easy as thinking and as real as experiencing.