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.

In Wild Houses he presents his first novel, and it does not disappoint. The young Irish writer Colin Barrett has already gained a great deal of critical praise – including in these pages – for ...