Discover Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted #THEHEARTINWINTER (@canongate.co.uk). All this season we’re spotlighting the superb Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2025, perfect for avid readers on your Christmas list. Have you read THE HEART IN WINTER?

PattyMacDotComma's review of The Heart in Winter 5/5: 5★ “Easily she was thirty. She was fair, complexion delicate. A slight crook to the nose. Eyes of wren’s-egg blue and one inclined to say hello to the other but not unattractively.” This is a ro...

Just finished and loved #TheHeartInWinter by #KevinBarry, a favourite Irish writer. What a rough and rowdy romp he sends a pair of Irish lovers on through America's freezing Wild West in the late 1800s. Thanks to #NetGalley for a copy for review. 💙📚 5⭐ My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

There are maybe one or two dozen writers who will make me run out to the bookstore whenever they publish a new book. Here's one of them — one of my favorite books this year. #KevinBarry #TheHeartInWinter