Kevin Barry's debut story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, won the Rooney Prize in 2007. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in The New Yorker. His novel, City of Bohane was published in 2011.
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Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 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 line... SEE MORE