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Mike McCormack

Ireland (b.1965)

Mike McCormack made a name for himself as a punky renegade. His first book, the story collection Getting It in the Head, appeared in the mid-1990s; McCormack’s febrile, brutalist, sci-fi-enhanced aesthetic must have looked aberrant in an Irish literary culture that was even more trenchantly conservative then than it is now. His talents were recognised nonetheless – he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature – and an older, wiser McCormack now presents us with his fifth book, and first novel since 2007’s Notes from a Coma.

Awards: Dublin (2018), Goldsmiths (2016) see all

Genres: Mystery

Novels

   Crowe's Requiem (1998)
   Notes from a Coma (2005)
   Solar Bones (2016)
   This Plague of Souls (2023)

Collections

Getting It in the Head (1996)
Forensic Songs (2012)

Books containing stories by Mike McCormack

Best European Fiction 2013 (2012)
(Best European Fiction)
edited by
Aleksandar Hemon

Emerald Eye (2005)
The Best Irish Imaginative Fiction
edited by
Roelof Goudriaan and Frank Ludlow

Awards

	2018 Dublin Literary Award : Solar Bones
	2016 Goldsmiths Prize : Solar Bones

Award nominations

	2018 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Solar Bones
	2017 Booker Prize (longlist) : Solar Bones

Mike McCormack recommends

Orbital (2023)
Samantha Harvey
"A gorgeous song of praise from on high, a hymn sung in starlight to celebrate mankind's courage and endeavour. And without preaching or speeching it also serves as a lyric reminder of all we might lose if we do not mend our ways."

The Temple House Vanishing (2020)
Rachel Donohue
"With clean prose, subtle characters and intrigue to keep the pages turning this is a hugely promising debut."

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