Interviews and events

Set in 1891 in Butte, Montana, as winter approaches, Polly Gillespie is beginning her new life as the wife of a mine captain when she meets Tom Rourke. As a wild romance kindles they head west on a stolen horse with Cornish gunsmen in hot pursuit.

Please join us on Saturday September 7, 2024, at 10AM US Central Time for an intimate conversation with Kevin Barry discussing his most recent work, The Heart of Winter.

This is a virtual opportunity to listen to and speak directly to an international award-winning author and a leading voice in Irish literature.

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Kevin Barry (born 1969) is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award. Beatlebone (2015) won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and is one of seven books by Irish authors nominated for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English. His 2019 novel Night Boat to Tangier was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Barry is also an editor of Winter Papers, an arts and culture annual.