"On Canaan's Side", Barry's fifth novel, concerns Lily Bere, the sister of the character Willy Dunne from "A Long Long Way" and the daughter of the character Thomas Dunne from "The Steward of Christendom", as she emigrates to the US. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and won the 2012 Walter Scott Prize. Barry's next novel,"The Temporary Gentleman", tells the story of Jack McNulty—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he is writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. Barry's novel "Days Without End" followed in 2016, winning The Costa Book Of The Year 2017, The Walter Scott Prize, and The Independent Booksellers' Prize, and being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.