Join bestselling and award winning Irish author Kevin Barry at Kennys Bookshop on May 30th, as he joins Tomás Kenny in conversation about his new book, The Heart in Winter. This is a free but ticketed event.

Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone, City of Bohane and Night Boat to Tangier and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere.

His new novel The Heart in Winter is a tale of young lovers, Tom and Polly, set in 1890s Montana. Tom Rourke is a young poet and ballad-maker, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. As he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington. A love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly and they strike out west on a stolen horse, through the badlands of Montana and Idaho. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunmen are soon in hot pursuit of them.

Kennys Bookshop are doing an Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of The Heart in Winter. Copies will be available to buy in the bookshop on the night and are also available to pre-order on kennys.ie. This edition is signed and numbered by the author, and has exclusive endpapers and sprayed edges.

To book your ticket for the Kevin Barry event in Kennys on May 30th at 6pm, visit www.kennys.ie or call into Kennys Bookshop in Liosbán.