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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1997
  • Latest Book:
    July 2026
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Books in Order: 8 titles

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  • One Man, one day, and a novel bursting with drama, comedy, and humanity. Kevin Quinn is a standard-variety American male: middle-aged, liberal-leaning, self-centered, emotionally damaged, generally determined to avoid both pain and responsibility....



  • Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a t...



  • The author of Publish and Perish returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe Nelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after th...



  • After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership...



  • A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia -- a world where Derr...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Hynes has published 8 books.

The next book by James Hynes, Peacock, will be published in July 2026.

The first book by James Hynes, Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror, was published in June 1997.

No. James Hynes does not write books in series.