“In the Irish Times preview of the best novels forthcoming in 2023, Martin Doyle writes: ‘The prospect of a new novel [by Mike McCormack] is one to savour. Part roman noir, part metaphysical thriller, This Plague of Souls deals with how we might mend the world – and is the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.”
(Colm Tóibín)
Mike McCormack comes from the west
of Ireland and is the author of two
collections of short stories Getting
it in the Head and Forensic Songs,
and three novels Crowe’s Requiem,
Notes from a Coma and Solar Bones.
In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney
Prize for Literature and Getting it in the
Head was chosen as a New York Times
Notable Book of the Year. In 2006 Notes
from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish
Book of the Year Award.
In 2016 Solar Bones was awarded the
Goldsmiths Prize and the Bord Gais
Energy Irish Novel of the Year and Book
of the Year; it was also long-listed for the
2017 Man Booker Prize. In 2018 it was
awarded the International Dublin Literary
Award. He is a member of Aosdána.