The Secret Scripture : AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYAuthor: Barry, Sebastian Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 5 March 2015 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom. Paperback 320 pages 197 x 132 x 21 260g AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty

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a group of locals take action

picking up fugitives wherever it can

as we meet the figures who have helped us understand our universe and our place in it

the ordinary is made extraordinary and the real things that happen to people turn out to be every bit as mysterious as their dreams

and why he never hired an agent but decided to make his own way in a world of sharks

thirties and forties

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drug-addled aunt Naomi

I tore through it with great delight' Jami Attenberg

and the world was revolutionised by the inventions of Richard Arkwright and the Stephensons

But something is coming for the sheep – every few nights it picks one off