““Oh,” Barrington said, “the type that commits murder is a strong type, Mr Cadmus. A hard type. It does not delay.””
‘One idea that does come through effectively is how very far away, how very foreign the recent past seems. Those early 1990s might have seemed pretty humdrum at the time, presided over by John Major, but these days we look back on a politics that was “grey with sunny intervals — the frustrating weather of a functioning democracy” with almost tearful nostalgia … God knows we need a bit of a laugh and a thrill these days, books like this that are driven firmly by characters, setting and story.’
The Times
“Even that word, the, the least regarded word in the language, strikes me as absurd. How can there be the history? Beyond one the, watertight and trim, lies another, just as watertight, just as trim.”
“The child seemed to represent some kind of perverse alchemy that had taken place in the deep earth . . . where he was fashioned”
Evie and the Animals is out now!
David Ouimet works in his studio, drawing the rich world of I Go Quiet.
‘Astonishingly beautiful … I wish this book had been around when I was a child: I would not have felt quite as alone’ Neil Gaiman on I Go Quiet
South Africa is ablaze, but what started the fire?
Will Raven and Sarah Fisher return in The Art of Dying, out now.
“He finished his fag, flicked it out into the road, turned his coat collar up and ran through the sleet towards the doors of central”
“There’s one other thing Alice knows. It doesn’t matter how hard she cries for her mum, her mum can’t hear her. Nobody can.”
“Remember this: if, in the act of creation, you find yourself, just for a moment, losing all sense of time and being lifted up into a great, all-embracing 'Yes!' . . . you have found the place where creation takes wing”
The Financial Times have been enjoying the audiobook of Night Boat to Tangier read by Kevin Barry himself:
“Barry is a marvel: menacing, insistent, switching from brooding descriptions of the men’s nocturnal surroundings to their terse dialogue. The conviction with which he explores their search for Charlie’s missing daughter never fails.”
Financial Times