Short Stories & Anthologies

John Updike / My Father's Tears and Other Stories

   John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation. 'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with...

Hugh Leonard / Home Before Night

 Our dog, Jack, was anti-clerical ...but my father clung to the theory that the dog simply detested the colour black...' Hugh Leonard's delightful autobiographical evocation of his Dublin childhood in the thirties and forties is like an Irish 'Cider...

John O'Brien / Rachel's Tears and Mary's Songs

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Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms - PB Short Story Debut Collection - BRAND NEW

A paperback copy, Stinging Fly Press, Dublin,  of the 2007 debut collection of short stories by Kevin Barry - There are little Kingdoms. Small format paperback, this is a 2019 reprint from the same publisher .    Kevin Barry received...

Joanna Walsh - Vertigo - PB Tramp Press - 2015 SHORT STORIES

Vertigo is the sense that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space. I sense no anchorage. I will pitch forward, outward and upward. A collection of stories that are at once otherworldly and familiar, funny and...

Thomas Lynch / The Undertaking : Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes...

Maeve Binchy / A Few of the Girls (Hardback) ( Short Stories)

'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work in...

William Rowley / The Witch of Edmonton

The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother...

Allan Ahlberg / Please Mrs Butler

Happy 30th birthday, Please Mrs Butler!This witty collection of school poems by Allan Ahlberg, re-jacketed for its 30th anniversary and for a whole new generation of school children to fall in love with, is full of typical classroom events that will be...

Richard Ford / Women with Men

This is the story of a group of men and women. As they experience the consolations and complications of relationships with the opposite sex, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and intimacy, and the fine distinction between pleasing...

Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us...

Paul Jennings / Undone!

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Alice Munro / Dear Life

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in...

Neil Jordan / Sunrise with Sea Monster

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Lucia Berlin / A Manual for Cleaning Women

The New York Times bestseller 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' Independent The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in...

Benedict Kiely /The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories

Beginning with an exquisite love story -- an ancient saga retold by Lady Gregory -- and continuing with George Moore and the birth of the modern short story at the turn of the century, this highly representative collection includes both classic writers...

Maureen Johnson / The Boy in the Smoke

A SHADES OF LONDON exclusive World Book Day story On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to the Eton boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him along the way, sending his life in a new and decidedly strange direction--leading him to...

Morris West / Cassidy

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Meg Cabot / Prom Nights From Hell: Five Paranormal Stories

Stephenie Meyer and Meg Cabot head up this collection of 5 thrilling paranormal stories which take bad prom nights to a whole new level. Imagine discovering you're dancing with the Grim Reaper - and he isn't there to tell you how hot you look. Worried...

Garrison Keillor / Leaving Home

A collection of wryly humorous stories presented as a tribute to the life and people of Lake Wobegon, Keillor's fictional American small town where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.All of...

Tim Burton / The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy And Other Stories

Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and Nightmare Before Chistmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of...

Thomas F. Walsh / In Silent Moments

A collection of short reflections, some lyrical, some nostalgic, by an anthologist that vary in theme from a Roman holiday to a death in the family, and from clearing attics to memories of pupils past.All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Robert Bolt / A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's...

Eggers Dave - Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

Niall Macmonagle / Off the Wall

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Hector Hugh Munro / The Complete Stories of Saki

‘All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's’.Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories...

Joyce Cary - Spring Song : Vintage Penguin Short Stories - Paperback 1963

A paperback first Penguin edition, of Donegal born author (Arthur ) Joyce Cary - Spring Song & Other Stories, 1963, originally published by Michael Joseph in 1960, and a collection of all his short fiction, some of which only appeared in this...

Ciara (ed.) Considine / Moments: Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims

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Somer, John & Daly, J ( Editors) - Scribner Book of Irish Writing - Paperback Edition 2001 Short Fiction

This is a collection of short fiction that shows the power, vitality and diversity of the modern Irish story. Fresh voices are represented alongside those synonymous with contemporary Irish literature, such as Emma Donoghue , Colum McCann and Joseph...

Sir Philip Sidney / The Old Arcadia (Oxford World's Classics)

Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his `Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called 'a trifle, and that triflingly handled', reflects their youthful vitality...

Oriah Mountain Dreamer / The Dance

The Dance picks up where cult bestseller The Invitation left off, taking the ideas deeper. This poem explores our ability to open up to the adventure of living, facing love, sorrow and anger and learning all they have to teach us, taking readers on an...

O Henry / 100 Selected Stories

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Gerard Whelan / Big Pictures

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Tracey Turner / Writers and Their Tall Tales

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Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant...

Maeve Binchy / Maeve's Times

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Sidney Sheldon / If Tomorrow Comes

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Pam Ayres / With These Hands

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Annie Proulx / Close Range

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Maeve Binchy / Dublin 4

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Jeffrey Archer / To Cut A Long Story Short

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Oscar Wilde / Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

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Lawson, Henry / While The Billy Boils - PB Australia

52 short stories, originally published 1896, and classics of Australian 19th century writing, evoking the rural Australia that Henry Lawson knew himself.  Light edgewear only, this edition published 1977, Australia. 

Maeve Binchy / This Year it Will Be Different

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Deirdre Purcell / Sky

It could be the story that made heycareer. It could also lead her deeper intolove - and danger - than she had everbeen before...Working' on a newspaper in Montana,Beautiful Sky Macpherson is bored by thesmall-town limitations of her job andfrustrated...