Earlier this week, it was announced that Irish author Colin Barett has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Here, we share an extract
from the debut novel that earned him this milestone accolade…
Known as the ‘Booker Dozen’, the list of titles features blackly comic page-turners, multigenerational epics, meditations on the pain of exile – plus a crime caper, a spy thriller, an unflinching account of girls’ boxing and a reimagining of a 19th-century classic. In celebration of the news, we’re sharing an extract from the book that’s in the running to receive one of the most important literary awards there are…Dev Hendrick was lying in the dark on the sofa, laptop propped on his belly, asleep or almost asleep, earbuds bleeding white noise into his ears when his phone buzzed three times on the coffee table and stopped.
There was a near-empty bottle of Corona on the table. He drank off the dregs. The Corona was flat and citrus- sour, a wilted wedge of lime curled like a drowned bug in the bottom of the bottle.Georgie was a tiny, highly strung dog with a candyfloss coat covering a ribcage as fragilely fine-boned as a chicken’s. He had demonic yellow teeth, a wizened, rat-like face and a moist, bloodshot, perpetually beseeching stare that half the time made Dev want to punt the thing over the garden wall.
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