After Donal Ryan’s award-winning debut, “The Spinning Heart” was published in 2012, he moved on to other novels, but the ...

Donal Ryan had just been longlisted for the Booker Prize for his debut novel The Spinning Heart. So: he couldn’t help himself ...

Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced in London as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for ...

Donal Ryan has said he is “overjoyed” to have won the prestigious Orwell Prize for political fiction.The Tipperary native was ...

Donal Ryan’s body of work now comprises of seven novels and a short story collection ...

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter ...

Donal Ryan’s new novel tells the story of a small town where contemporary problems threaten, but don’t break, everyone’s spirit. May 26, 2025. 5 min. Summary.

In 2014 Donal Ryan published a novel in the U.S. called “The Spinning Heart” about a rural Irish town after the 2008 financial collapse. It was narrated by a chorus of voices, one per chapter ...