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Black butterflies is a truly gripping turmoiled tale of hope, love and heart-wrenching grief. Based in 1992, the book is set during the first year Sarajevo (a city in then Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) was under siege and closed off from the world. The story is told through Zora, a landscape artist and university […]

The Boy from the Sea is a debut of sorts from Carr. This is his first outing in adult fiction, having already published across non-fiction (The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border (Faber)) and children’s (The Badness of Ballydog, Lost Dogs, Deep Deep Down (Simon & Schuster)).   We find ourselves in Killybegs, County