Landing
Landing (New York : Harcourt, 2007). A contemporary love story about emigration, Landing – my fifth novel - is set in boomtown Ireland and smalltown Canada. In 2008 the Golden Crown Literary Society
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Room
Room (London: Picador; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; New York: Little Brown, 2010), my Man-Booker-shortlisted seventh novel, is the story of a five-year-old called Jack, who lives in a single room with his Ma and has never been outside. I wrote the screenplay of the film Room, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, and starring Brie Larson, which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
Touchy Subjects
Touchy Subjects (New York: Harcourt; London: Virago, 2006). My eighth book of fiction, this collection of contemporary stories about taboos and embarrassment ranges from Ireland to Louisiana, Canada to Tuscany, and includes characters old, young, queer, straight, and simply confused.
Astray
Astray (2012). This sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about life-changing journeys to, in and from North America, which I have been writing one by one over the past decade and a half, is my eleventh book of fiction.