David Park (writer)

David Park (born 1953) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. 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.

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.

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)