Garrett Carr teaches creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, and he is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Irish Times. His non-fiction ‘The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border’ was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. ‘The Boy from the Sea’ is his debut novel.
Garrett Carr teaches creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, and he is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Irish Times. His non-fiction ‘The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border’ was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. ‘The Boy from the Sea’ is his debut novel.
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