Billy O’Callaghan is the award-winning author of four short story collections and three novels, including the internationally acclaimed and widely-translated novel, My Coney Island Baby, shortlisted for The Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award.

His latest top-selling novel, Life Sentences, Jan 2021, a sweeping and immersive story of one ordinary family in Ireland, and their extraordinary journey over three generations and more than a century of famine, war, violence and love. His writing is imbued with truth and lived experience - creating a novel so rich in life and empathy it is impossible to let go of his characters.

‘O’Callaghan is one of our finest writers… and this is his best work yet.’-

John Banville.