Sebastian Barry

Reading from Days Without End, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award (his second) and just released in paperback.

“A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making, the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I’ve come across in years.”–Kazuo Ishiguro

“For its exhilarating use of language alone, Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End stood out among the year’s novels. Epic in conception but comparatively brief in its extent, this brutal, beautiful book also features the year’s most beguiling narrator … A great American novel which happens to have been written by an Irishman.”–The Times Literary Supplement

Sebastian Barry is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Annie Dunne, A Long Long Way, The Secret Scripture, On Canaan’s Side, and The Temporary Gentleman. Born in Dublin in 1955, he lives in Wicklow with his family.