Culture That Made Me: John Boyne picks his touchstones
John Boyne's latest book is All The Broken Places. (Picture: Chris Close)
John Boyne, 51, grew up in Sandyford, Dublin. In 2000, The Thief of Time hit the bookshelves, one of 21 books he has published. The film adaptation of his award-winning novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was released in 2008. In 2019, his house in Rathfarnham, Dublin won Celebrity Home of the Year, his “proudest achievement to date”. All The Broken Places, his latest young adult novel, is published by Doubleday.
