About
Sebastian Barry is regarded as one of the foremost novelists of our time. We welcome his return to The Helicon stage to discuss his latest novel, The Newer World, with Paula Shields.
Lyrical and visceral, it is an unforgettable story of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Join us for what promises to be a memorable evening with one of Ireland's finest writers as he reads from and talks about his work.
The £40 Book & Ticket bundle includes a paperback copy of A Newer World.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
'Nobody writes like, nobody takes risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does.' - Ali Smith
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018–21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year Award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and he has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
