The Paper Man

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
Billy O’Callaghan’s writing is powerfully emotional and wholly captivating from page one. The Paper Man is the best book yet by a truly gifted Irish writer – Gabriel Byrne, author of Walking with Ghosts
History’s inherited burden presses firmly on the characters in Billy O’Callaghan’s The Paper Man… O’Callaghan moves his narrative deftly between the Vienna of the Anschluss, rural Austria before the Nazi takeover and early 1980s Ireland * New York Times *

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.

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