Everything in this Country Must

From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

Everything in this Country Must

From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann (Author)

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'A powerful and moving collection' Roddy Doyle

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A group of British soldiers appear to help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in a flood. A young boy and his mother, under cover of night, painstakingly prepare for the marching season ahead. And a young woman and her son sit over a game of chess in a Galway caravan, their thoughts elsewhere – in the Derry prison where a young man is slowly succumbing to hunger strike.

Everything in this Country Must reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children – and confirms Colum McCann as a master storyteller.

'These are powerful stories – gritty, memorable and ambitious … Goes straight to the heart, both in terms of its theme and its emotional punch' Edna O'Brien

'McCann writes with a dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak' New York Times

'McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the country's recent history with devastating effect' Maggie O'Farrell

Product details

Published	03 Nov 2026
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Pages	128
ISBN	9781037204234
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	198 x 129 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Colum McCann

Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections…

These are powerful stories – gritty, memorable and ambitious. The novella goes straight to the heart, both in terms of its theme and its emotional punch

Edna O'Brien
Excellent – this is a powerful and moving collection

Roddy Doyle
Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann

Sunday Independent
McCann once again shows why he is one of the best writers in the world … Deeply moving and powerfully written, these are likely to become classics

Big Issue
Captures that peculiar nexus of hormones, deprivation and political imperative on a Northern Irish child coming of age

Los Angeles Times Book Review
Colum McCann's stories are brooding, meditative and lyrically controlled to that delicate point where the emotion within them intensifies with each succeeding reading and recognition. The political turmoil of Northern Ireland finds here an answering, subtly respondent voice - wonderfully skilled and deeply felt

Seamus Deane