David Park (writer)

David Park (born 1953) is a novelist from Northern Ireland.^[1][2] He grew up in a Protestant working-class family in East Belfast, and wrote seven novels while working as a teacher, before retiring to write full time.^[1]

His ninth novel Spies in Canaan, set in Vietnam, was runner-up in the 2023 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for a novel focusing on travel.^[3][4]

Selected publications

• Oranges from Spain (1990, short stories)
• The Healing (1992)
• The Rye Man (1994)
• Stone Kingdoms (1996)
• The Big Snow (2002)
• Swallowing the Sun (2004)
• The Truth Commissioner (2008)
• Light of Amsterdam (2012)
• The Poets' Wives (2014)
• Gods & Angels (2016)
• Travelling in a Strange Land (2018)
• Spies in Canaan (2022)