Non-Fiction - John Boyne

2023: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Sunday Independent)
2023: How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney (The Irish Times)
2022: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (The Irish Times)
2022: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara (Sunday Independent)
2021: The Pawn Broker’s Reward by Declan O’Rourke (The Irish Times)
2021: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (The Irish Times)
2021: A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson (The Irish Times)
2021: Second Place by Rachel Cusk (The Irish Times)
2021: The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle by Neil Blackmore (The Irish Times)
2020: Little Red and Other Stories by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (The Irish Times)
2020: The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen (The Irish Times)
2020: Summerwater by Sarah Moss (The Irish Times)
2020: The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes (New York Times)
2020: And Their Children After Them by Nicolas Mathieu (The Irish Times)
2020: All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg (The Irish Times)
2020: Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey (The Irish Times)
2019: Find Me by André Aciman (The Guardian)
2019: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (The Irish Times)
2019: The Carer by Deborah Moggach (The Irish Times)
2019: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (The Irish Times)
2019: What Red Was by Rosie Price (The Irish Times)
2019: My Enemy’s Cherry Tree by Wang Ting-Kuo (The Irish Times)
2019: You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (The Irish Times)
2019: Lanny by Max Porter (The Irish Times)
2019: Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley (The Irish Times)
2019: My Coney Island Baby by Billy O’Callaghan (The Irish Times)
2018: How To Be Invisible by Kate Bush (The Irish Times)
2018: Middle England by Jonathan Coe (The Irish Times)
2018: Enigma Variations by André Aciman (The Irish Times)
2018: French Exit by Patrick DeWitt (The Irish Times)
2018: Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks (The Irish Times)
2018: The Tristan Chord by Glenn Skwerer (The Guardian)
2018: Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller (The Irish Times)
2018: Calypso by David Sedaris (The Irish Times)
2018: History of Violence by Édouard Louis (The Irish Times)
2018: Last Stories by William Trevor (The Irish Times)
2018: The Nine-Chambered Heart by Janice Pariat (The Irish Times)
2018: One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig (The Irish Times)
2018: The Chameleon by Samuel Fisher (The Irish Times)
2018: From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan (The Guardian)
2018: The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher (The Irish Times)
2018: Only Child by Rhiannon Navin (The Irish Times)
2018: I Love You Too Much by Alicia Drake (The Irish Times)
2018: The Hoarder by Jess Kidd (The Irish Times)
2018: Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka (The Irish Times)
2018: Turning for Home by Barney Norris (The Irish Times)
2017: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (The Irish Times)
2017: As A God Might Be by Neil Griffiths (The Irish Times)
2017: Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash (The Guardian)
2017: Heather, The Totality by Matthew Weiner (The Irish Times)
2017: The Dreams of Bethany Mammoth by William Boyd (The Irish Times)
2017: Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks (The Irish Times)
2017: Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley (The Irish Times)
2017: The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst (The Irish Times)
2017: Smile by Roddy Doyle (The Guardian)
2017: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (The Irish Times)
2017: The Hidden Keys by André Alexis (The Irish Times)
2017: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (The Irish Times)
2017: The Zoo by Christopher Wilson (The Irish Times)
2017: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (The Irish Times)
2017: Crimes of the Father by Thomas Keneally (The Irish Times)
2017: A History of Running Away by Paula McGrath (The Irish Times)
2017: Spoils by Brian Van Reet (The Irish Times)
2017: Let Go My Hand by Edward Docx (The Irish Times)
2017: Larchfield by Polly Clark (The Irish Times)
2017: Christodora by Tim Murphy (The Irish Times)
2017: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (The Irish Times)
2016: Swing Time by Zadie Smith (The Irish Times)
2016: Holding by Graham Norton (The Irish Times)
2016: Conclave by Robert Harris (The Irish Times)
2016: Nutshell by Ian McEwan (The Irish Times)
2016: The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen (The Irish Times)
2016: Everyone Is Watching by Megan Bradbury (The Irish Times)
2016: The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain (The Irish Times)
2016: What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell (The Irish Times)
2016: Gods & Angels by David Park (The Irish Times)
2015: Slade House by David Mitchell (The Irish Times)
2015: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee (The Irish Times)
2015: Tender by Belinda McKeon (The Irish Times)
2014: The Surfacing by Cormac James (The Irish Times)
2014: The New World by Andrew Motion (Irish Independent)
2014: Hanging With The Elephant by Michael Harding (The Irish Times)
2014: Two More Pints by Roddy Doyle (The Irish Times)
2014: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh (The Irish Times)
2014: Across A War-Tossed Sea by LM Elliott (New York Times)
2014: Every Single Minute by Hugo Hamilton (The Irish Times)
2014: The Woman Not The Name by Brian Lynch (The Irish Times)
2013: The Thing About December by Donal Ryan (The Irish Times)
2013: Downturn Abbey by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (The Irish Times)
2013: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon (The Irish Times)
2012: Angry Baby! by Arthur Matthews (The Irish Times)
2012: The Book of Irish Mammies by Colm O’Regan (The Irish Times)
2012: Two Pints by Roddy Doyle (The Irish Times)
2012: The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling (The Irish Times)
2011: Umbrella by Will Self (The Irish Times)
2011: Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope (Literary Review)
2010: The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst (The Irish Times)
2010: A Death In Summer by Benjamin Black (The Irish Times)
2010: Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie (The Irish Times)
2010: Annexed by Sharon Dogar (The Irish Times)
2009: Winterland by Alan Glynn (The Irish Times)
2009: The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers (The Irish Times)
2008: Bad Day In Blackrock by Kevin Power (The Irish Times)
2008: A Most Wanted Man by John LeCarré (The Irish Times)
2008: Pilcrow by Adam Mars Jones (The Irish Times)
2007: New England White by Stephen L Carter (The Irish Times)
2007: Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (The Irish Times)
2007: Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Connor (Sunday Tribune)
2007: The Colour of Blood by Declan Hughes (The Irish Times)
2007: Boy In The World by Niall Williams (Sunday Business Post)
2006: The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin (The Irish Times)
2006: The Mission Song by John LeCarré (The Irish Times)
2006: The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (The Irish Times)
2006: The Four Courts Murder by Andrew Nugent (The Irish Times)
2005: G.A.A.Y by Jarlath Gregory (The Irish Times)
2004: The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright (The Irish Times)
2004: Six by Jim Crace (The Irish Times)
2004: Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore (The Irish Times)
2004: The Light of Day by Graham Swift (The Irish Times)
2004: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (The Irish Times)
2001: King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hoschchild (W Magazine)
1998: The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi (W Magazine)
1998: Lindbergh by A Scott Berg (W Magazine)
1997: Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams (W Magazine)

Introductions & Contributions

2020, Last Stop Auschwitz by Eddy de Wind (Doubleday)
2017, At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Scribner)
2017, Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E Frankl (Beacon Press)
2017, Being a Writer by Travis Elborough (Frances Lincoln)
2016, Trinity Tales by Catherine Heaney (Lilliput)
2015, Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador Classics)
2015, Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo (Corgi)
2013, The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne (Hesperus Press)
2012, Writers & Artists Yearbook by Various (A&C Black)
2012, Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury (Picador)
2012, Dubliners by James Joyce (O’Brien Press)
2011, Number The Stars by Lois Lowry (HarperCollins)
2011, The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green (Puffin Classics)
2011, Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Puffin Classics)
2011, Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Puffin Classics)
2011, Body of Work by UEA (Full Circle Editions)
2010, With Love from Me… To Me by Joseph Galliano (Transworld)
2010, Creative writing from the University of East Anglia by UEA (Egg Box)
2009, Pied Piper by Nevil Shute (Vintage Classics)
2008, We Are All Born Free by Amnesty International (Frances Lincoln)

On Books, Writers & Writing

2022, 🇮🇪 The Sunday Independent, My Life in Books

2022, 🇮🇪 Sunday Business Post, How To Write A Great Children’s Book

2022, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, Books By Women That Every Man Should Read

2022, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Penguin Website, How Agatha Christie turns readers into bestselling novelists

2021, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, On Marian Keyes as Rachel’s Holiday Turns 25

2021, 🇮🇪 Sunday Independent, Writing for Young Readers

2021, 🇮🇪 Irish Times, Ireland’s Best Women Writers

2021, 🇮🇪 RTÉ Guide, Shelf Life

2021, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Penguin Website, The Books That Shaped My Life

2021, 🇮🇪 Irish Independent, Literary Finds That Helped Us Survive Lockdown

2020, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Edna O’Brien at 90

2020, 🇮🇪 The Irish Independent, Reflections on 20 Years in Publishing

2020, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Daily Mail, Desert Island Books

2020, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Laugh in the Time of Corona: Favourite Funny Books

2019, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Times Literary Supplement, 20 Questions

2019, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, The Best Books by Women of the 21^st Century

2019, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, From Jeanette Winterson to John Irving: John Boyne on the Best Books about LGBT Life

2018, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, I Interview: Markus Zusak

2018, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Daily Express, 6 of My Favourite Books

2018, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sunday Business Post, 19 Things I Know About Writing

2018, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Shelfies with Irish Writers

2018, 🇮🇪 Irish Independent, The Write Side

2017, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Writers on Jane Austen

2017, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Blog, On Helen Dunmore

2017, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Observer, Writers on the Books that Helped Them Come Out

2017, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, I Interview: Arundhati Roy

2017, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, My Writing Day

2017, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Books Are My Bag, 5 Books I Love

2016, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Halloween Treats, On ‘The Signal-Man’ by Charles Dickens

2015, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, Top 10 Unlikely Friendships in Children’s Books

2014, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Independent, On ‘The Northern Clemency’ by Philip Hensher

2014, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, Top 10 Child Narrators

2013, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, Writers on Their Favourite Haunted Tales

2013, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Independent, On Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens

2012, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Apple Blog, On Roald Dahl

2012, 🇳🇿 New Zealand Books Council, On Irish Writers

2012,🇮🇪 The Irish Times, On Writing Short Stories

2012, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Dubliners: Our City, Our Book

2011, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, The Go-Between by LP Hartley

2010, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Love Reading, Writers Who Inspire Me

2009, 🇮🇪 The Gloss, What I’m Reading

2007, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, On Patricia Grace

2007, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Magazine, I Interview: Joanne Harris

2007, 🇮🇪 The Sunday Tribune, I Interview: Anthony Swofford

2006, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Independent, Books of a Lifetime: Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

2006, 🇮🇪 The Sunday Tribune, Books That Inspired Me

2001, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On John Irving

2001, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On Peter Carey

2001, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On James Agee

On My Books

2022, 🇺🇸 Amazon, Book By Book

2022, 🇮🇪 Irish Independent, Everyone Has The Right To Tell Any Story They Choose (All the Broken Places)

2021, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, How I Wrote The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2019, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Why I Support Trans Rights But Reject the Word ‘Cis’ (My Brother’s Name is Jessica)

2018, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 WH Smith Blog, The Heart’s Invisible Furies

2016, 🇺🇸 New York Times, Novels Bring WW2 to Life for a New Generation (The Boy at the Top of the Mountain)

2015, 🇮🇪 The Irish Times, Why I’m Nervous Publishing ‘Beneath the Earth’

2015, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Magazine, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

2014, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, The Catholic Priesthood Blighted My Youth (A History of Loneliness)

2014, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, It Was Letters That Allowed Me To Enter The Minds of Soliders (Stay Where You Are And Then Leave)

2013, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Guardian, Quickfire Interview (Stay Where You Are And Then Leave)

2010, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Readers Place, The House of Special Purpose

2009, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Times, 10 Facts About the Romanovs (The House of Special Purpose)

2006, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Times,Through the Eyes of Suffering Children (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)

2008, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Waterstone’s Magazine, Revisiting The Bounty

2004, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Crime Magazine, On Writing Crippen