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Sebastian Barry
A Long Long Way
 
Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them.
 
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 Picture of rosette representing a prize winners
 
Faber and Faber 2006 pbk £7.99 ISBN 0-571-21801-6
 

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Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
 
Nearing her 100 birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.
 

2008 Man Booker Prize Shortlist

2008 Costa Book Award Shortlist

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Faber and Faber 2008 hbk £16.99 ISBN 978-0571215287
 

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