Book description
Winner of the Sunday Times short story prize
A 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.
Kevin Barry's debut story collection,
There Are Little Kingdoms
, won the Rooney Prize in 2007. His first novel,
City of Bohane
, was published in 2011 and shortlisted for the Hughes and Hughes Irish
Novel of the Year and the Costa First Novel Award. His short fiction has
appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, in publications such as
Best European Fiction
,
The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story
and the
New Yorker
. In 2012, his story 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' was awarded the
Sunday
Times
EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.
