Colin Barrett: Chaos in County Mayo

Masterfully evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Colin Barrett chats today about 2024 Booker-nominated Wild Houses, his drugs-feud thriller narrated by an unwitting accomplice to a kidnapping. Barrett’s debut novel is slick, funny, and his inventive dialogue leaps off the page. As in his acclaimed short stories, the novel returns to County Mayo – the home Barrett left more than two decades ago. Find out what keeps his pen wending westward as he talks with chair, Peggy Hughes.

Supported by Culture Ireland.

Categories: Crime/Thriller, Fiction

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Brilliant Fiction

From international luminaries to local heroes, the programme is packed with stellar fiction. Here’s a taste of some of the brilliant writers coming to our stages this year…

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