The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Penguin, 2025)
Fiction
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, which is now out in paperback (ISBN: 9780241984406). Winner of the Nero Book Award for Fiction 2023, this is described as a ‘tragicomic triumph’. Set in Ireland, it plots out the trials and tribulations of the Barnes family, as bankruptcy looms, a marriage hangs by a thread and past mistakes rear their ugly heads.