Days Without End

Author(s): Sebastian Barry

CONTEMPORARY FICTION | JO'S RECOMMENDED

Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author


Costa Award Winner


Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.


Product Information

WINNER 2016 Costa Fiction Award Longlisted for Man Booker Prize 2017

Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. The Secret Scripture also won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

General Fields

  • : 9780571340224
  • : Faber
  • : Faber Paperback
  • : 0.253
  • : August 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
  • : September 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sebastian Barry
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823/.914
  • : 320
  • : FA