Colin Barrett. Grove, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6094-2 Barrett’s splendid debut novel (after the collection Homesickness) wraps a taut crime story around a fascinating set of character studies.

Irish writer Colin Barrett has won widespread, fervent acclaim for two short-story collections. He brings that form’s compression and tensile sentences to his debut novel, “Wild Houses ...

Colin Barrett could become the seventh Irish writer, and the second in a row, to win the Booker Prize after his "Wild Houses" made the 2024 shortlist.

Wild Houses, by Colin Barrett (Grove). In the opening chapter of this short, deftly written novel, two roughnecks in the employ of an Irish drug dealer abduct a teen-age boy named Doll English ...

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett Barrett's short stories have been "gathering acclaim for the past decade", and now he has written his first novel, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Sunday Times.