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Bernard MacLaverty Books in Order

Bernard MacLaverty has written 17 books, published between 1978 and 2022. The first book is A Man in Search of a Pet (1978) and the newest is Blank Pages (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1978–2022
Pages on record
3,432 in 16 of 17 books
Reading time
57–86 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,432 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Bernard MacLaverty is a Northern Irish novelist and short story writer, born on 14 September 1942. Cal and Grace Notes are among MacLaverty's novels, and five books of short stories sit alongside them. The catalogue lists 17 books from A Man in Search of a Pet (1978) to Blank Pages (2022), including Secrets (1979), Lamb (1980), A Time to Dance (1982), Cal (1983) and The Great Profundo (1987). Recorded subjects include Northern Ireland, teenage boys and Catholic clergy.

How many Bernard MacLaverty books are there?

Bernard MacLaverty has 17 books, released between 1978 and 2022.

Bernard MacLaverty Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Bernard MacLaverty books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty (1980)
  2. Cover of A Time to Dance by Bernard MacLaverty (1982)
  3. Cover of Cal by Bernard MacLaverty (1983)
  4. Cover of The Best of Bernard MacLaverty by Bernard MacLaverty (1990)
  5. Cover of The Bernard MacLaverty Collection by Bernard MacLaverty (1991)
  6. Cover of Columba by Bernard MacLaverty (1994)
  7. Cover of Walking the Dog by Bernard MacLaverty (1994)
  8. Cover of The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty (2001)
  9. Cover of Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty (2017)
  1. 1
    A Man in Search of a Pet1978 · confirmed 1/4
    1978–
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  2. 2
    Secrets1979 · 130 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979130
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  3. 3
    Lamb1980 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980160
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  4. 4
    A Time to Dance1982 · 174 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982174
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  5. 5
    Cal1983 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983176
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  6. 6
    Andrew McAndrew1985 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198580
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  7. 7
    The Great Profundo1987 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987143
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  8. 8
    The Best of Bernard MacLaverty1990 · 113 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990113
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  9. 9
    The Bernard MacLaverty Collection1991 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991226
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  10. 10
    Columba1994 · 15 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199415
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  11. 11
    Walking the Dog1994 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994208
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  12. 12
    Grace Notes1997 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997288
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  13. 13
    The Anatomy School2001 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001368
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  14. 14
    Matters of Life & Death2006 · 231 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006231
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  15. 15
    Collected Stories2013 · 640 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013640
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  16. 16
    Midwinter Break2017 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017208
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  17. 17
    Blank Pages2022 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022272
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Bernard MacLaverty books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

17 books

17 Bernard MacLaverty titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Bernard MacLaverty books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 17 Bernard MacLaverty books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Bernard MacLaverty

Start with A Man in Search of a Pet (1978), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Bernard MacLaverty book?

Blank Pages (2022) is the newest Bernard MacLaverty book released so far.

Is there a new Bernard MacLaverty book coming?

No next Bernard MacLaverty book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Award nominations for Bernard MacLaverty

Wikidata records 1 nomination for Bernard MacLaverty. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Bernard MacLaverty at a glance

Paused
No new Bernard MacLaverty title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Bernard MacLaverty books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,432 pages across the 16 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Bernard MacLaverty books, 5 of 17, were published in the 1990s.

What the Bernard MacLaverty books are about

13 of the 17 Bernard MacLaverty books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 6 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Short stories 6 of 13 books
  • Social life and customs 4 of 13 books
  • Ireland 3 of 13 books
  • Manners and customs 3 of 13 books
  • Northern ireland 2 of 13 books
  • Teenage boys 2 of 13 books