Non-Fiction - John Boyne

Non-Fiction

Book Reviews

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

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
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

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