Sebastian Barry

Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and ultimately, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see.

The story of Ireland's involvement in the First World War through the eyes of 17-year-old Willie Dunne who joins the Royal Dublin Fusiliers because he is not tall enough to become a policeman like his father.

As she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill, Lilly Bere tells the story of how she was forced to flee Sligo at the end of the First World War, and follows her life into the new world of America, a world filled with hope and danger.

The Roscommon Regional mental hospital is preparing for closure, and Dr Grene has to reassess all his patients. He is particularly drawn to Roseanne McNulty, nearing her 100th birthday, who has spent most of her life incarcerated. Through their journals Roseanne's story gradually emerges. Costa Book of the Year Winner.

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. He has wandered the world, following his childhood ambition to better himself. Then in 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story.

Winona is a young orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Working on their farm in 1870s Tennessee, she is forging a life for herself beyond the violence of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. However, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners. With a sentence of death passed over him he is forced to flee Sligo, leaving behind his friends, family and beloved girl, Viv.