Rencontre with
Kevin Barry

Awarded some of the most prestigious Irish and British literary prizes, Kevin Barry is the author of several novels and short stories, including The Heart in Winter (June 2024, Canongate Books), translated by Carine Chichereau and now published by Éditions Métailié as Les Amours en fuite. Before he sets off for Étonnants Voyageurs Festival in Saint-Malo and to mark the launch of this new translation, Kevin Barry will be at the CCI to discuss The Heart in Winter, which is both tender and funny, and tells the fast-paced story of a love which happens, perhaps, only once in a lifetime.

He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl.
October 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome degenerate. His life is heading nowhere fast. That is until he meets Polly Gillespie, the new bride of a devout mine captain, and a thunderbolt love affair is sparked. Tom and Polly strike out West on a stolen horse. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunmen are in hot pursuit of the lovers, and closing in fast…

A novel of adventure, love, and nostalgia set in Montana, written by one of Ireland’s finest literary voices.

The Sunday Times Historical Novel of the Year
The Irish Times Bestseller