John Boyne, Author . Random/Fickling $15.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-385-75106-3
In 1942 Berlin, nine-year-old Bruno returns from school to discover that his father, a high-ranking military officer, has a new job. He announces that the family—Bruno, mother and his older sister, Gretel—is moving "for the...
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John Boyne. Hogarth, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-23015-2
Boyne (A Ladder to The Sky) traces a quest for revenge across centuries in this inventive, engrossing novel. Spanning from Palestine in 1 CE to outer space in 2080, the narrative advances through each chapter with the characters renamed and living...
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John Boyne. Holt, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62779-030-7
Boyne returns to a WWII setting for this novel about Pierrot Fischer, a Parisian of German heritage whose best friend, Anshel, is Jewish and deaf. Orphaned at age seven, Pierrot goes to live with his Aunt Beatrix, a housekeeper at a mountaintop...
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John Boyne. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-17133-9
Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) explores the tumultuous history of the priesthood in the Irish church. Father Odran Yates narrates from when his mother told him he ought to take vows through the present day. For many years, Odran has taught...
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John Boyne. Other (www.otherpress.com), $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59051-679-9
In 1867 England, 21-year-old Eliza Caine is left completely alone in the world when her father suddenly takes ill and dies. In a fit of melancholia, she responds to an advertisement for a governess to care for a pair of children in the wilds of...
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John Boyne. Other Press, $16.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-59051-598-3
Boyne reworks perennial rumors that Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Russia’s last czar, escaped the Bolshevik firing squad that killed her family, in an overstuffed romantic novel elevated by the author’s prose gifts but fatally lacking in...
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John Boyne. Other Press, $16.95 trade paper (309p) ISBN 978-1-59051-552-5
Boyne’s new novel documents the lives of two inseparable men navigating the trenches of WWI and the ramifications of a taboo involvement. The emotive wartime saga is narrated by Tristan Sadler, a soldier en route to visit his dead comrade Will...
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John Boyne, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $25.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-312-53856-9
Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
) revisits William Bligh's doomed expedition in this adequate seafaring historical. Captain's servant John Jacob Turnstile, a 14-year-old orphan and thief, avoids a prison sentence by accepting a...
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John Boyne, Author . St. Martin’s/Dunne $24.95 (362p) ISBN 978-0-312-35797-9
Set in 1936, this well-plotted thriller from Irish author Boyne (Crippen
) links the fates of two flawed young Englishmen with that of their king—who’s soon to give up the throne for love—in a cat’s cradle of theft, blackmail
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John Boyne, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-312-35480-0
Published in the U.K. before his hits Crippen
and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
, this novel sails similarly historical currents with mixed results. Matthieu Zela is 256 years old in 1999, but doesn't look a day over 50. (Bafflingly—to...
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John Boyne, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-312-34358-3
Had Charles Dickens been around to turn his talents to fictionalizing the classic Crippen murder case, the result might well have been close to this superb, multifaceted novel from Irish author Boyne (The Thief of Time
). The crime, a cause cé
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John Boyne, read by Alison Larkin. Tantor Media, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $42.99 ISBN 978-1-4526-1742-8
In Boyne’s thriller, 19th-century England is infused with the supernatural. Narrator Larkin—born in America but raised in England—effectively captures Boyne’s characters, particularly the manner in which both class and gender shape daily life. In...
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John Boyne, illus. by Oliver Jeffers. Random/Fickling, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-75246-6
At age eight, Noah Barleywater runs away from home. He is "the seventh cleverest boy" in his class and has "read 14 books from cover to cover" but does not consider these achievements sufficient, and seeks adventure. On his journey, which has strong
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John Boyne, illus. by Oliver Jeffers. Knopf, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-97762-5
“[T]he Brocket family was just about the most normal family in New South Wales, if not the whole of Australia. And then their third child was born.” Like Boyne and Jeffers’s Noah Barleywater Runs Away, this tale follows the journeys of an eight-year-
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John Boyne, illus. by Oliver Jeffers. Holt, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-62779-031-4
Boyne (The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket) delivers an original look at what was known as “shell shock” during WWI through the eyes of Alfie Summerfield, a milkman’s son in a working-class London neighborhood. Opening on Alfie’s...
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John Boyne, Author, Michael Maloney, Read by , read by Michael Maloney. Listening Library $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3705-9
Through the eyes of an innocent nine-year-old boy named Bruno, listeners become complicit bystanders, observing some of the horrors of the Holocaust. Maloney's soft-toned narration and chipper, believably childlike characterization of Bruno...
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John Boyne. Hogarth, $28 (592p) ISBN 978-1-5247-6078-6
Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) begins his enchanting, sprawling latest novel in 1945 as 16-year-old Catherine Goggin is cast from her home in Goleen, Ireland. Unmarried, pregnant, and shamed by a priest in front of the entire congregation,...
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John Boyne. Hogarth, $27 (358p) ISBN 978-1-984-82301-4
This evocative saga from Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furies) presents the Machiavellian literary success of Maurice Swift. In the late 1980s, Swift is an aspiring writer working as a waiter in West Berlin when he meets acclaimed author Erich...
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