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Kevin Barry’s “The Heart In Winter” - Paperback Launch

Name: Kevin Barry’s “The Heart In Winter” - Paperback Launch
Start: 2025-05-02T19:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-02
Location: Irish Cultural Centre

Admission

£7.00

Date

Friday 2nd May 2025, 19:45

Location

Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Black's Road, London, Greater London, W6 9DT, United Kingdom

Description

“A savagely funny, achingly beautiful tale set in the Wild West, from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier!"

The ICC is delighted to present Ireland’s magnificent writer Kevin Barry, who’ll be in-conversation with Journalist Anne Flaherty, talking about his best-selling book “The Heart In Winter.”

What if we ride out tonight?
What if we ride out and never once look back?
He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl.

October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. His life is heading nowhere fast. That is until he meets Polly Gillespie, the new bride of a devout mine captain, and a thunderbolt love affair takes spark.

Tom and Polly strike out west on a stolen horse. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunsmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast . . .

Barry’s first novel since “Night Boat to Tangier” which was longlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Award. Night Boat to Tangier has sold over 92,000 copies

Kevin Barry will be doing a book-signing following this event.
“The Heart in Winter” is published by Harper Collins.

Accolades for “The Heart in Winter”

“The Sunday Times Historical Novel Of The Year”!
“The Instant Irish Times Bestseller”!
Picked As “Book To Look Out For” by The Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, Irish Times, Economist, The I-Paper and Sunday Times voted it Best Book To Read 2024!!!

VOTED Number 3 in Top 20 Books of The Year, 2024, by The Independent Newspaper.

What Press and People say about Kevin Barry’s ‘The Heart In Winter”

'An absolute belter of a book!!' ANNE ENRIGHT

“Barry has written us a love story that never seems false or cheap, and an adventure where the violence is never gloating or desensitised. It’s a wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O’Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce- extraordinary”. Sandra Newman – The Guardian

‘A great big rollicking ballad of a novel’ - COLUM McCANN

‘A violent, extravagant adventure set in 1890s Montana . . .

[Barry's] thrilling best’ - The Times

‘Holy damn, it's good’ - DAVID MITCHELL

About Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier, was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times. Some of Kevin Barry’s other titles include ..(Fiction) City of Bohane Beatlebone: Short story collections; There Are Little Kingdoms; Dark Lies the Island; That Old Country Music. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.

About Anne Flaherty: London-born to Irish parents and raised in County Clare, Anne started her journalistic career on a local newspaper in Ennis before moving to the Irish Press in Dublin and later the Irish Times in Belfast. She spent several years living in South Africa and Hong Kong, covering international news for Irish and UK news outlets, including the Irish Times and RTÉ Radio. More recently, Anne led the editorial team of a digital news outlet in West London. Anne's passion for the arts, and particularly literature, continues, as a presenter/interviewer with the ICC. Anne holds a B.A. in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin, and an M.A . in Anglo-Irish Literature from Queen's University Belfast, as well as an M.A .in Children’s Literature from the University of Surrey. Anne is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ICC and she is a key member of the centre’s literature programming team.

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