McCartney Times

A novel about John Lennon’s island on the west coast of Ireland is in the running for Britain’s oldest literary award. Kevin Barry’s acclaimed novel Beatlebone has been shortlisted for the £10,000 James Tait Black prize for fiction.The other nominated titles are the debut novel by screenwriter Miranda July, The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall and You Don’t Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits. Lennon’s island was Dornish in Clew Bay, County Mayo, which the real?life Lennon bought in 1967 at “the knock?down price of £1,550” – and which he briefly visited with his first wife, Cynthia, and then with Yoko Ono.

Source: Tale of John Lennon’s island adventures in running for leading Scottish book awards (From Herald Scotland)