Non-Fiction - John Boyne

Non-Fiction

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

8 May 2022, Sunday Independent, Goodbye Forever, Twitter

18 Mar 2022, The Irish Times, The Happiest Time of my Life

17 Feb 2022, Penguin Website, How Agatha Christie turns readers into bestselling novelists

9 December 2021, The Irish Times, On Marian Keyes as Rachel’s Holiday Turns 25

5 December 2021, The Observer, Books of the Year 2021

28 November 2021, Sunday Independent, Writing for Young Readers

10 October 2021, Sunday Business Post, Mental Health Day

16 September 2021, Irish Times, Ireland’s Best Women Writers

12 September 2021, Sunday Business Post, Where Would We Be Without Our Parents?

5 September 2021, Sunday Business Post, A Return to Flying

4 September 2021, The Guardian, How I Wrote The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

4 September 2021, The Gloss, Armchair Traveller

13 August 2021, Penguin Website, The Books That Shaped My Life

14 August 2021, Irish Independent, Social Media

7 August 2021, Irish Independent, Literary Finds That Helped Us Survive Lockdown

1 August 2021, Sunday Independent, INTERVIEW / THE ECHO CHAMBER

17 July 2021, The Guardian, INTERVIEW / THE ECHO CHAMBER

20 February 2021, The Irish Times, On Terenure College

15 December 2020, The Irish Times, Edna O’Brien at 90

5 December 2020, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2020

30 August 2020, Sunday Business Post, Love in the Time of a Norwegian God

1 August 2020, The Irish Independent, Reflections on 20 Years in Publishing

30 July 2020, The Daily Mail, Desert Island Books

30 June 2020, The Irish Times, Summer Reading 2020

8 April 2020, The Irish Times, Viral Poetry / Coronavirus

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

6 Dec 2018, Press Association, Books of the Year 2018

3 Dec 2018, Penguin Website, Penguin Authors Remember The Magic of Receiving Literary Gifts

1 Dec 2018, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2018

13 Oct 2018, The Irish Times, Interview with Markus Zusak

8 Oct 2018, Hot Press, 100 Voices, Mental Health Struggles

18 Sep 2018, Hot Press, INTERVIEW / A LADDER TO THE SKY

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

3 Dec 2017, Penguin, 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

2 April 2017, Sunday Business Post, INTERVIEW / THE HEART’S INVISIBLE FURIES

1 Apr 2017, The Guardian, My Writing Day

26 Feb 2017, Sunday Times, My Week

19 Feb 2017, The Guardian, INTERVIEW / THE HEART’S INVISIBLE FURIES

13 Feb 2017, Hot Press, INTERVIEW / THE HEART’S INVISIBLE FURIES

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

1 Sep 2012, The Irish Times, First Encounters

11 Aug 2012, The Independent, Essay on Children’s Classics

14 April 2012, The Irish Times, On Writing Short Stories

31 Mar 2012, The Irish Times, Dubliners: Our City, Our Book

27 Jul 2010, ITB Library, On Dublin as a City of Literature

17 Sep 2008, Hot Press, INTERVIEW / MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

21 Mar 2008, The Irish Times, Anthony Minghella Obituary

1 June 2007, Stinging Fly, First Passions

March 2007, Sunday Business Post, On St Patrick’s Day

Dec 2006, Sunday Business Post, Books of the Year 2006

2 Dec 2006, The Irish Times, Books of the Year 2006

July 2006, Sunday Business Post, Summer Reading

24 Jun 2006, The Irish Times, Summer Reading 2006

Jan 2006, The Independent, Books of a Lifetime: Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

21 Jan 2006, The Times, Through the Eyes of Suffering Children

Jan 2006, Sunday Tribune, Books That Inspired Me

1 Oct 2004, Crime Magazine, On Writing ‘Crippen’

2001, Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On John Irving

2001, Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On Peter Carey

2001, Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On James Agee

2001, Bloomsbury Online Magazine, On Adapted Screenplays