Beatlebone

Author(s): Kevin Barry

General Fiction

A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane


It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.


Product Information

Winner of Goldsmiths Prize 2015. Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2016 and Irish Book Awards 2015.

Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. Beatlebone, his second novel, was the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Award.

General Fields

  • : 9781782116165
  • : Canongate Books
  • : Canongate Books
  • : 0.191
  • : April 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 17mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kevin Barry
  • : Paperback
  • : Main
  • : English
  • : 823/.92
  • : 272
  • : FA