Books by Joseph O’Neill
“In Joseph O’Neill’s Godwin, previously longlisted for the Booker, two half-brothers search for an African teenager they believe could be the next Lionel Messi.” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Blood-Dark Track
by Joseph O’Neill
O’Neill tells the story of his two grandfathers, one a Christian Turk running a hotel and an import-export business in Mersin, Turkey, and the other one, the one who mattered to me, a fiercely devout republican from Cork. Both grandfathers were locked up by the authorities who, suspecting they had nationalist sympathies, saw them as threats.
Interviews where books by Joseph O’Neill were recommended
The best books on The Troubles, recommended by Timothy Knatchbull
In August 1979, Timothy Knatchbull and his family went out in a boat off the coast of Ireland. Neither his grandparents or his twin brother would return from the IRA bomb attack that shocked Britain and the world. Here he talks about books that helped him better understand ‘the Troubles,’ and his own book, From a Clear Blue Sky, about his own journey to come to terms with that happened that bank holiday weekend.
Notable Novels of Spring 2025, recommended by Cal Flyn
Our seasonal round-up of notable new releases in fiction: Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn offers an overview of the spring 2025 novels you should have on your literary radar: new work from Nobel laureates, a buzzy new debut set in Berlin, and a conceptually thrilling Scandinavian sci-fi septology.
