Kevin Barry (2016 Event)

Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize
for ‘fiction at its most novel’. The phrase seems apt: even
though this is a story built from familiar elements – an imagined
John Lennon, post-Beatles in 1978, trying to pay a visit to an
isle off the coast of Ireland that the real-life Lennon bought in
the 60s – Barry has produced a tour de force that’s funny, raw
and dazzlingly novel. In this hilarious event recorded live at
the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, he reads from the
book before talking about where his ideas came from.