Days Without End
Irish novelist, born 1955. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2008 and 2016 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2012 and 2017.
Days Without End is a 2016 novel by Sebastian Barry. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2016 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2017.
On 5 of the 14 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Sebastian Barry
- First published
- 2016
- Length
- 336 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2016
- Walter Scott Prize winner, 2017
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2017
- Genre
- Historical fiction, War and conflict, LGBTQ+, Adventure
Is Days Without End worth reading?
5 of the 14 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Costa Novel Award and the Walter Scott Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2017) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2016) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 74 | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2017) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Days Without End
The edition we link to is the Faber & Faber paperback (2017), 336 pages.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber (paperback, 2017)
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780571340224
How critics, prizes and readers rate Days Without End
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 67% of the points available on prize lists, against 36% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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