Helpfully for this article, this book is set on an island, in the South China Seas ... with its sudden truth and its originality. Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture is one of the 20 titles ...

Irish playwright and novelist Barry's gift for image and metaphor ... an 89-year-old retired cook living in the Hamptons in Long Island in Irish writer Barry's latest novel (after The Secret ...

would you take to a desert island? The Collected Poems of Jack ... But the chill of an evaporated classicism drove my heart from that book. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons ...