Books by Patrick McCabe

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, Co Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. His novels include Carn, The Dead School and The Butcher Boy, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan. Breakfast On Pluto, published in 1998, was also on the Booker Prize shortlist. He has written two collections of short stories, Mondo Desperado and Emerald Germs of Ireland, which became a very successful RTE Radio series. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.