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Billy has been named Cork Person of the Month for April 2021! The award comes after the success of his latest novel, Life Sentences. His name is now under consideration for the …

Billy O’Callaghan was interviewed by Irish broadcaster and presenter Ryan Tubridy on the Ryan Tubridy Show, RTÉ One. They talked about his new book, Life Sentences, and the inspiration behind it. …

Billy’s new novel, Life Sentences, has been released. The book is published by Jonathan Cape, and is available from local bookshops, as well as Bookshop.org, Blackwell’s, Foyles, Amazon, Hive, The Book Depository …

My Coney Island Baby has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2020 Encore Award, for the best second novel of the year. Five novels have been shortlisted, and …

Billy’s new novel, My Coney Island Baby, will be published by Jonathan Cape in January 2019, and in a number of other territories shortly after. The book is now available for …

Billy’s first Chinese-language publication will be his short story collection, The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind, published in Chinese by CITIC PRESS. The collection is available for pre-order …

Billy O’Callaghan’s short story, A Death In The Family, has been released as part of the Ploughshares Solos series of longer stories and essays. Nellie’s brother Jimmy passed away when she was …

The Dead House currently published by Brandon Books/O’Brien Press, will be published in Spring 2018 in the United States by Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing!  

Billy writes about the process of writing The Dead House on the Writing.ie literary website. “It’s a ghost story. It is, of course, other things too: a story of love and friendship, …

Billy’s novel, The Dead House, has been reviewed by RTÉ. …such elaborate description becomes bound up with our perception of the mind of the protagonist.  O’Callaghan delves deep into the fragile …