Non-Fiction - John Boyne

Non-Fiction

Book Reviews

Miranda Popkey

Topics of Conversation

The Irish Times

2020
André Aciman

Find Me

The Guardian

2019
Mary Beth Keane

Ask Again, Yes

The Irish Times

2019
Deborah Moggach

The Carer

The Irish Times

2019
Susan Choi

Trust Exercise

The Irish Times

2019
Rosie Price

What Red Was

The Irish Times

2019
Wang Ting-Kuo

My Enemy's Cherry Tree

The Irish Times

2019
Damian Barr

You Will Be Safe Here

The Irish Times

2019
Max Porter

Lanny

The Irish Times

2019
Tessa Hadley

Late in the Day

The Irish Times

2019
Billy O'Callaghan

My Coney Island Baby

The Irish Times

2019
Kate Bush

How To Be Invisible

The Irish Times

2018
Jonathan Coe

Middle England

The Irish Times

2018
André Aciman

Enigma Variations

The Irish Times

2018
Patrick deWitt

French Exit

The Irish Times

2018
Sebastian Faulks

Paris Echo

The Irish Times

2018
Glenn Skwerer

The Tristan Chord

The Guardian

2018
Andrew Miller

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

The Irish Times

2018
David Sedaris

Calypso

The Irish Times

2018
Édouard Louis

History of Violence

The Irish Times

2018
William Trevor

Last Stories

The Irish Times

2018
Janice Pariat

The Nine-Chambered Heart

The Irish Times

2018
Roland Schimmelpfennig

One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

The Irish Times

2018
Samuel Fisher

The Chameleon

The Irish Times

2018
Donal Ryan

From a Low and Quiet Sea

The Guardian

2018
Philip Hensher

The Friendly Ones

The Irish Times

2018
Rhiannon Navin

Only Child

The Irish Times

2018
Alicia Drake

I Love You Too Much

The Irish Times

2018
Jess Kidd

The Hoarder

The Irish Times

2018
Danya Kukafka

Girl in Snow

The Irish Times

2018
Barney Norris

Turning for Home

The Irish Times

2018
Hiro Arikawa

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

The Irish Times

2017
Neil Griffiths

As A God Might Be

The Irish Times

2017
Gabe Habash

Stephen Florida

The Guardian

2017
Matthew Weiner

Heather, The Totality

The Irish Times

2017
William Boyd

The Dreams of Bethany Mammoth

The Irish Times

2017
Tom Hanks

Uncommon Type

The Irish Times

2017
Andrew Michael Hurley

Devil's Day

The Irish Times

2017
Alan Hollinghurst

The Sparsholt Affair

The Irish Times

2017
Roddy Doyle

Smile

The Guardian

2017
Kamila Shamsie

Home Fire

The Irish Times

2017
André Alexis

The Hidden Keys

The Irish Times

2017
Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

The Irish Times

2017
Christopher Wilson

The Zoo

The Irish Times

2017
Matt Haig

How to Stop Time

The Irish Times

2017
Thomas Keneally

Crimes of the Father

The Irish Times

2017
Paula McGrath

A History of Running Away

The Irish Times

2017
Brian Van Reet

Spoils

The Irish Times

2017
Edward Docx

Let Go My Hand

The Irish Times

2017
Polly Clark

Larchfield

The Irish Times

2017
Tim Murphy

Christodora

The Irish Times

2017
Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

The Irish Times

2017
Zadie Smith

Swing Time

The Irish Times

2016
Graham Norton

Holding

The Irish Times

2016
Robert Harris

Conclave

The Irish Times

2016
Ian McEwan

Nutshell

The Irish Times

2016
Hendrik Groen

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

The Irish Times

2016
Megan Bradbury

Everyone Is Watching

The Irish Times

2016
Rose Tremain

The Gustav Sonata

The Irish Times

2016
Garth Greenwell

What Belongs To You

The Irish Times

2016
David Park

Gods & Angels

The Irish Times

2016
David Mitchell

Slade House

The Irish Times

2015
Harper Lee

Go Set A Watchman

The Irish Times

2015
Belinda McKeon

Tender

The Irish Times

2015
Cormac James

The Surfacing

The Irish Times

2014
Andrew Motion

The New World

The Irish Times

2014
Michael Harding

Hanging With The Elephant

The Irish Times

2014
Roddy Doyle

Two More Pints

The Irish Times

2014
Lean Cullinan

The Living

The Irish Times

2014
Irvine Welsh

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

The Irish Times

2014
LM Elliott

Across A War-Tossed Sea

The New York Times

2014
Hugo Hamilton

Every Single Minute

The Irish Times

2014
Brian Lynch

The Woman Not The Name

The Irish Times

2014
Donal Ryan

The Thing About December

The Irish Times

2013
Ross O’Carroll Kelly

Downturn Abbey

The Irish Times

2013
Aleksandar Hemon

The Book of My Lives

The Irish Times

2013
Angry Baby!

Arthur Matthews

The Irish Times

2012
Colm O’Regan

The Book of Irish Mammies

The Irish Times

2012
Roddy Doyle

Two Pints

The Irish Times

2012
JK Rowling

The Casual Vacancy

The Irish Times

2012
Will Self

Umbrella

The Irish Times

2012
Christopher Hope

Shooting Angels

Literary Review

2011
Alan Hollinghurst

The Stranger’s Child

The Irish Times

2011
Benjamin Black

A Death In Summer

The Irish times

2011
Salman Rushdie

Luka and the Fire of Life

The Irish Times

2010
Sharon Dogar

Annexed

The Irish Times

2010
Alan Glynn

Winterland

The Irish Times

2009
Roland Chambers

The Last Englishman

The Irish Times

2009
Kevin Power

Bad Day In Blackrock

The Irish Times

2008
John LeCarré

A Most Wanted Man

The Irish Times

2008
Adam Mars Jones

Pilcrow

The Irish Times

2008
Stephen L Carter

New England White

The Irish times

2007
Sebastian Faulks

Engleby

The Irish Times

2007
Joseph O’Connor

Redemption Falls

The Sunday Tribune

2007
Declan Hughes

The Colour of Blood

The Irish Times

2007
Niall Williams

Boy In The World

The Sunday Business Post

2007
Ian Rankin

The Naming of the Dead

The Irish Times

2006
John LeCarré

The Mission Song

The Irish Times

2006
Bill Bryson

The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

The Irish Times

2006
Andrew Nugent

The Four Courts Murder

The Irish Times

2006
Jarlath Gregory

G.A.A.Y

The Irish Times

2005
Thomas Lynch

Booking Passage

The Irish Review of Books, Vol 1.2
Justin Cartwright

The Promise of Happiness

The Irish Times

2004
Jim Crace

Six

The Irish Times

2004
Helen Dunmore

Mourning Ruby

The Irish Times

2004
Graham Swift

The Light of Day

The Irish Times

2004
Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

The Irish Times

2004
Adam Hoschchild

King Leopold’s Ghost

W Magazine, Issue 17
Nicholas Rinaldi

The Jukebox Queen of Malta

W Magazine, Issue 17

1998
A Scott Berg

Lindbergh

W Magazine, Issue 15

1998
Niall Williams

Four Letters of Love

W Magazine, Issue 14

1997

Introductions

Eddy de Wind

Last Stop Auschwitz

Doubleday

2020
Jamie O'Neill

At Swim, Two Boys

Scribner

2017
Viktor E Frankl

Man's Search For Meaning

Beacon Press

2017
Emma Donoghue

Room

Picador Classics,

2015
RM Ballantyne

The Coral Island

Hesperus Press

2013
Malcolm Bradbury

Eating People Is Wrong

Picador

2012
James Joyce

Dubliners

O’Brien Press,

2012
Lois Lowry

Number The Stars

HarperCollins

2011
Roger Lancelyn Green

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Puffin Classics

2011
Carlo Collodi

Pinocchio

Puffin Classics

2011
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Puffin Classics

2011
UEA

Creative writing from the University of East Anglia

Egg Box

2010
Nevil Shute

Pied Piper

Vintage Classics

2009
Amnesty International

We Are All Born Free

Frances Lincoln

2008

Contributions

01/09/2015
With Love from Me... To Me

12/11/2010
Body of Work

01/09/2011
Only Remembered

24/09/2015
Trinity Tales

01/11/2016
Being a Writer

07/09/2017

Non-Fiction Articles

1 April 2020, The Irish Times, Children’s Short Story Competition
28 Mar 2020, The Irish Times, Irish Writers on Covid-19
28 Mar 2020, The Irish Times, Laugh in the Time of Corona: Favourite Funny Books
21 Dec 2019, The Irish Independent, Books of the Year 2019
30 Nov 2019, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2019
18 Oct 2019, The Irish Times, In Defence of the Booker Judges
23 Apr 2019, The Times Literary Supplement, 20 Questions
20 Apr 2019, The Times, My Culture Fix
13 Apr 2019, The Irish Times, Why I Support Trans Rights But Reject the Word ‘Cis’
8 Mar 2019, The Irish Times, The Best Books by Women of the 21^st Century
18 Feb 2019, The Guardian, From Jeanette Winterson to John Irving: John Boyne on the Best Books about LGBT Life
1 Feb 2019, Words for Life, Q&A
22 Dec 2018, The Irish Independent, Books of the Year 2018
1 Dec 2018, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2018
13 Oct 2018, The Irish Times, Interview with Markus Zusak
14 Sep 2018, The Daily Express, 6 of My Favourite Books
12 Aug 2018, Sunday Business Post, 20 Things I Know About Writing
7 Jul 2018, The Irish Times, Summer Reading 2018
22 May 2018, The Irish Times, Irish Writers on Why They Hang Out with Writers
5 Apr 2018, The Irish Times, International Dublin Literary Award
31 Mar 2018, The Irish Times, Shelfies with Irish Writers
1 Mar 2018, The Gloss, Writer’s Block
22 Feb 2018, WH Smith Blog, The Heart’s Invisible Furies
21 Jan 2018, The Irish Independent, The Write Side
24 Dec 2017, The Irish Independent, Books of the Year 2017
12 Dec 2017, The Guardian, Women are Better Writers than Men
9 Dec 2017, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2017
5 Oct 2017, The Irish Times, On Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize
18 Jul 2017, The Irish Times, Writers on Jane Austen
18 Jul 2017, Waterstone’s Blog, On Helen Dunmore
1 Jul 2017, The Observer, Writers on the Books that Helped Them Come Out
24 Jun 2017, The Irish Times, Interview with Arundhati Roy
1 Apr 2017, The Irish Times, My Writing Day
19 Feb 2017, The Guardian, Interview about ‘A History of Loneliness’
20 Jan 2017, The Irish Times, On Donald Trump’s Election
25 Dec 2016, The Irish Independent, Books of the Year 2016
27 Dec 2015, Irish Independent, Books of the Year 2015
1 Sep 2015, The Guardian, Top 10 Unlikely Friendships in Children’s Books
27 Aug 2015, The Irish Times, Why I’m Nervous Publishing ‘Beneath the Earth’
3 Oct 2014, The Guardian, On ‘A History of Loneliness’
19 Sep 2014, The Independent, On ‘The Northern Clemency’ by Philip Hensher
25 Jul 2014, The Irish Times, On Sinéad O’Connor
24 Jul 2014, The Guardian, Top 10 Child Narrators
2 Jul 2014, The Guardian, On ‘Stay Where You Are and Then Leave’
23 Dec 2013, The Guardian, Writers on Their Favourite Haunted Tales
2 Oct 2013, The Guardian, Q&A on ‘Stay Where You Are and Then Leave’
31 May 2013, The Independent, On Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens
15 May 2013, The Times, My Holidays
8 Dec 2012, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2012
11 Aug 2012, The Independent, Essay on Children’s Classics
21 Mar 2008, The Irish Times, Anthony Minghella Obituary
2 Dec 2006, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2006
24 Jun 2006, The Irish Times, Summer Reading 2006
21 Jan 2006, The Times, Through the Eyes of a Child