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Mike McCormack


Ireland (b.1965)

Mike McCormack made a name for himself as a punky renegade. His first book, the story collection Getting It in the Head, appeared in the mid-1990s; McCormack’s febrile, brutalist, sci-fi-enhanced aesthetic must have looked aberrant in an Irish literary culture that was even more trenchantly conservative then than it is now. His talents were recognised nonetheless – he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature – and an older, wiser McCormack now presents us with his fifth book, and first novel since 2007’s Notes from a Coma.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Novels
   Crowe's Requiem (1998)
   Notes from a Coma (2005)
   Solar Bones (2016)
   This Plague of Souls (2023)
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Collections
   Getting It in the Head (1996)
   Forensic Songs (2012)
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Mike McCormack recommends
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Orbital (2023)
Samantha Harvey
"A gorgeous song of praise from on high, a hymn sung in starlight to celebrate mankind's courage and endeavour. And without preaching or speeching it also serves as a lyric reminder of all we might lose if we do not mend our ways."
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The Temple House Vanishing (2020)
Rachel Donohue
"With clean prose, subtle characters and intrigue to keep the pages turning this is a hugely promising debut."

Anthologies containing stories by Mike McCormack
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Best European Fiction 2013 (2012)
(Best European Fiction)
edited by
Aleksandar Hemon

Awards
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book winner (2016) : Solar Bones
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2017) : Solar Bones
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Book winner (2018) : Solar Bones


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