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ⓘ About Anna Burns
Anna Burns is a Northern Ireland writer born and raised in the working class Catholic district of Ardoyne. She schooled at St Gemma’s High School and later relocated to London in 1987. In her first book, No Bones is a story of a girl’s life brought up in Belfast during the troubles. Due to its depiction of the daily language of the people of Belfast No Bones has been considered an important book and has been compared to Dubliners by James Joyce. The novel won the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize issued by the Royal Society of Literature for being the best regional book of the year in both Ireland and the United Kingdom and also won the Orange Prize in 2002.
All Book Series by Anna Burns
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Series opener · book 1 of 28 · published 1955 Anthology · Flannery O'Connor
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book 7 of 28 · published 1998 Anthology · Thom Jones
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Book 9 of 28 · published 2011 Anthology · Alan Bennett
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Book 10 of 28 · published 2012 Anthology · Junot Díaz
Come Rain or Come Shine
Book 14 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Kazuo Ishiguro
Dante and the Lobster
Book 16 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Book 19 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Djuna Barnes
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
Book 20 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Plath
The Forester's Daughter
Book 23 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Claire Keegan
Three Types of Solitude
Book 24 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Brian W. Aldiss
Intruders
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Adrian Tomine
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Anna Burns?
Anna Burns is a Northern Ireland writer born and raised in the working class Catholic district of Ardoyne. She schooled at St Gemma’s High School and later relocated to London in 1987. In her first book, No Bones is a story of a girl’s life brought up in Belfast during the troubles.
Which Anna Burns series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Stories series, the earliest of Anna Burns's multi-book series: it opens with A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955) and runs to 28 books across 1955–2019, ending with Intruders (2019).
How many books has Anna Burns written?
Anna Burns has 32 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1955 and 2021. 28 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Faber Stories series with 28 books — and 4 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Anna Burns's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Anna Burns's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Stories (1955–2019, 28 books).
How are Anna Burns's books organised into series?
This guide splits Anna Burns's 32 books into 1 named series and 4 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Stories (28 books, 1955–2019).