There Are Little Kingdoms

В комнате ожидания паромного терминала в испанском порту Альхесирас маются двое престарелых ирландцев – Морис и Чарли, давние партнеры-контрабандисты. Они ждут прибытия судна из Танжера. Или судна в Танжер? Они ищут дочь Чарли, сбежавшую из Ирландии после смерти матери. Чарли ждет встречи и примирения, ему неспокойно на душе. Это ночное бдение в духе Сэмюэла Беккета – лишь канва для путешествия во времени, веселого и грустного одновременно. Кевин Барри – один из самых известных и титулованных современных ирландских писателей, лауреат Дублинской литературной премии. Его роман «Ночной паром в Танжер» вошел в лонг-лист Букеровской премии в 2019 году, а права на экранизацию приобрел Майкл Фассбендер.

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

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.

Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination that marries the most improbable element to the most striking effect.

Forty 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 are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that the city really lives.

For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there’s trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight… And then there’s his mother.

City of Bohane