Beneath the Earth

<p>John Boyne is the author of fifteen novels for adults six for younger readers and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel <i>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas </i>has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema theatre ballet and opera. His many international bestsellers include <i>The Heart's Invisible Furies </i>and<i> A Ladder to the Sky</i>. He has won four Irish Book Awards including Author of the Year in 2022 along with a host of other international literary prizes. His novels are published in sixty languages.<br><br><br>Twitter: @JohnBoyneBooks<br>Instagram: @JohnBoyneAuthor</p> <p>In this collection of twelve dark unerring and surprising short stories John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us the impossibility of shared loss the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves.<br><br><br>Drawing on a host of enthralling characters – a farmer a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents bad parents writers and soldiers; a student a rent boy and a hitman – Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. <br><br><br>This his first collection of short stories is some of John Boyne’s finest writing to date. It includes ‘Rest Day’ which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.</p> <p>In this collection of twelve dark unerring and surprising short stories John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us the impossibility of shared loss the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves.<br><br><br>Drawing on a host of enthralling characters – a farmer a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents bad parents writers and soldiers; a student a rent boy and a hitman – Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. <br><br><br>This his first collection of short stories is some of John Boyne’s finest writing to date. It includes ‘Rest Day’ which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.</p>