Jennifer Johnston is accepted as one of the finest Irish writers and has an international reputation. Her books include The Captain and the Kings, The Gates, Shadows on Our Skin, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1977, The Old Jest, winner of the 1979 Whitbread Award for Fiction, The Christmas Tree, The Railway Station Man, Fool's Sanctuary, The Invisible Worm and The Illusionist. Many of her books are published by Penguin. Jennifer Johnston lives in Northern Ireland.
Genres: Mystery
Novels
Captains and the Kings (1972)
The Gates (1973)
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974)
Shadows on our Skin (1977)
The Old Jest (1979)
The Christmas Tree (1981)
The Railway Station Man (1984)
Fool's Sanctuary (1987)
The Invisible Worm (1991)
The Illusionist (1995)
The Desert Lullaby (1996)
Two Moons (1998)
The Gingerbread Woman (2000)
This Is Not a Novel (2002)
Grace and Truth (2005)
Foolish Mortals (2007)
Truth or Fiction (2009)
Shadowstory (2011)
A Sixpenny Song (2013)
The Gates (1973)
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974)
Shadows on our Skin (1977)
The Old Jest (1979)
The Christmas Tree (1981)
The Railway Station Man (1984)
Fool's Sanctuary (1987)
The Invisible Worm (1991)
The Illusionist (1995)
The Desert Lullaby (1996)
Two Moons (1998)
The Gingerbread Woman (2000)
This Is Not a Novel (2002)
Grace and Truth (2005)
Foolish Mortals (2007)
Truth or Fiction (2009)
Shadowstory (2011)
A Sixpenny Song (2013)
Omnibus
Captains and the Kings / Railway Station Man / Fool's Sanctuary (1999)
Naming the Stars (2015)
Naming the Stars / Two Moons (2016)
Naming the Stars (2015)
Naming the Stars / Two Moons (2016)
Collections
Selected Plays (2003)
From the Republic of Conscience (2009) (with Maeve Binchy, John Boyne, John Connolly, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Neil Jordan, Colum McCann, Frank McCourt and Colm Tóibín)
From the Republic of Conscience (2009) (with Maeve Binchy, John Boyne, John Connolly, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Neil Jordan, Colum McCann, Frank McCourt and Colm Tóibín)
Chapbooks
Plays
Series contributed to
Finbar's Hotel (with Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Tóibín)
Finbar's Hotel (1997)
Finbar's Hotel (1997)
Anthologies containing stories by Jennifer Johnston
Short stories
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Awards
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