Billy O'Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into nine languages and was shortlisted for the Encore Award 2020. Stories in his collection The Boatman and Other Stories were shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award and for Writing.ie Short Story of the Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.
Imaginative, beautifully told... Billy O'Callaghan arranges the
story superbly
*Spectator*
As the moving story unspools, O'Callaghan proves himself the most
engaging of storytellers
*Daily Mail*
The Paper Man is Billy O'Callaghan's most ambitious work to date,
and it fulfils its ambitions magnificently. Exciting, moving,
perceptive and wonderfully entertaining
*John Banville, author of The Sea*
A beautiful, layered novel about love, football and family. As the
world falls apart in its darkest hours, this story tells of a life
so bright, it echoes on into the generations: so that even in
tragedy, there is always hope
*Elaine Feeney, author of As You Were*
Gorgeous. Billy O'Callaghan writes with such a spirit of warmth
about the darkest of subjects
*Sara Baume, author of A Line Made by Walking*
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