It languished on my bedside table unopened and unread for months, and even its triumph at the Costa Book Awards in January, where it won the Costa Book of the Year Award, didn’t spur me to pick it up. Then, last August, I acquired a copy of Barry’s 2008 Booker shortlisted novel The Secret Scripture. Almost three years later I still find myself occasionally thinking about this story, always the sign of a great piece of fiction. There was something about the story of an Irish lad caught between two wars that really resonated with me, and I promptly ordered my father a copy because I knew he’d enjoy the Great War element. When I read Sebastian Barry’s 2005 Booker shortlisted novel A Long Long Way several summers ago I found it one of the most moving books I’d ever read. Fiction – paperback Faber and Faber 320 pages 2009.
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