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The Luck of the Irish

Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

June 25, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Retired detective Tom Kettle sits in his wicker chair in front of the window of his seaside apartment in a small, nameless Irish village. He watches the cormorants, he looks at the boxes of books he still hasn’t put up, and he thinks about cleaning his oven and about his deceased wife June, his long-lost children. One day, two detectives show up at his door to ask about a cold case: a priest, stabbed and thrown off a cliff a decade or so earlier. New […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: Catholicism, Ireland, Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: Catholicism, Ireland, Old God's Time, Sebastian Barry ·
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“He was the orphan of his former happiness.”

Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

September 3, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

This novel is longlisted for the Booker prize, which is why I requested it from the library some time ago. I knew it was about a retired Irish police officer who receives a call from former colleagues regarding a previous case, which in turn dredges up a variety of emotional scars. That sounded open ended enough, perhaps like a Tana French novel, and I often enjoy thriller-adjacent novels set in Ireland – and from the cover and other vague descriptions, it sounded just dreamy enough. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sebastian Barry

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sebastian Barry ·
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Image of a barefoot woman in an overcoat, hunched over with her hands to her face, and angel wings on her back

“a responsible witness to the miracle of the ordinary soul”

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

July 23, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Minds Confession first: I’ve had this book kicking around on my shelves–a signed copy, no less!–since 2016, when Sebastian Barry came to give a reading at my grad school institution, an event timed to coincide with the centenary of the Easter Rising. (Small brag: I got to have barbecue with him and historian Roy Foster, along with my dissertation director and a couple other grad students. He was very nice, and when visiting American cities he likes to see what he can find […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Sebastian Barry

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Sebastian Barry ·
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