The New Policeman
core novel 2005 The New Policeman
Record
| First published | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.68 (2,589 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780370328232 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
There never seems to be enough time in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. J.J. Liddy, a teenage boy from a family of musicians in the County Galway village, sets out to find out why, and the trail of the county's lost time leads him to Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth of Irish legend, where he discovers that time is leaking from his world into the otherworld. And what does it all have to do with the village's new policeman, Garda Larry O'Dwyer, who also has a love of music? Steeped in Irish traditional music, it won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
Where it sits
- Universe: The New Policeman
- Series: The New Policeman core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Kate Thompson
Awards (verified)
- Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 2005: won
- Costa Book Awards (Children's Book (Whitbread)), 2005: won; Then the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
Notes
- From the series record (The New Policeman): Kate Thompson's trilogy of the Liddy family of Kinvara and Tír na nÓg.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The New Policeman: position 1 of 3: next The Last of the High Kings (2007)
Sources
- Wikipedia (The New Policeman)
- Bodley Head (publisher description, via Risingshadow)
- Bodley Head (publisher description, via the book's record)
- Wikipedia (Kate Thompson)
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