In Colin Barrett’s 2024-novel Wild Houses, we follow three young people who are coming to terms with life’s unease in a small-town of Ireland. Nominated for the 2024 Booker Prize, the book ...

Colin Barrett has won the Nero Book Awards debut fiction prize for his first novel, Wild Houses, about a small-town drugs feud, a kidnapping and a life-altering weekend in Co Mayo, where he grew up.

Wild Houses does this too ... The final haunting magic of the book is how Barrett crafts something in which the facts remain resolutely bleak at the end, and yet you feel uplifted for having ...

On the surface, this is all that Colin Barrett’s Booker Prize-longlisted debut novel Wild Houses seems to be about — a short-lived thrill of a weekend-long kidnapping and extortion ...

Irish author Colin Barrett has made the 2024 Booker Prize longlist for his debut novel “Wild Houses.” "With two collections behind him, Barrett is well established as a master both of the ...

An author described by the Los Angeles Times as a writer of unique genius has spoken to FRANCE 24 about his new novel "Wild Houses". Colin Barrett, who grew up in the northwest of Ireland ...

Irish author Colin Barrett has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, for his debut novel Wild Houses. The Booker longlist was announced today with the shortlist of six books to follow on 21 ...

Wild Houses' was described by the judges as 'sharp, funny and bitingly bittersweet' Mayo author Colin Barrett has been named as one of 13 writers on the longlist for this year’s prestigious ...

Irish author Colin Barrett is one of four authors who claimed a top prize in the Nero Book Awards, winning in the category of ‘debut fiction’ for his first novel. Four books have been chosen ...