Short Stories & Anthologies

Maeve Binchy / This Year It Will Be Different : Christmas tales (Hardback)

  Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set...

John B. Keane / John B.Keane's Christmas (Large Paperback)

  This collection of Christmas stories by John B. Keane include: "Christmas Noses", "Christmas Diversion", "The Woman Who Hated Christmas", "The Best Christmas" Dinner", "A Last Christmas Gift" as...

Sarah Champion / Disco Biscuits

 Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the birth of Acid House, this anthology of new stories includes works by Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeff Noon.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Jim Edgar / Bad Cat

  It's the dark side that most cat owners never see. The side that wouldn't be caught dead purring. Here, in full colour, in all their infamy, are hundreds of trouble makers and moggy delinquents...

Maria Leach / The Ultimate Insult

  A compilation of memorable insults by the rich and famous. This book offers insults from Oscar Wilde, Clive James and Marilyn Monroe.       All of our books are second hand, and while you...

David Marcus / Phoenix Irish Short Stories 2000

  This fifth annual collection of Irish short stories continues to reflect the wide landscape of contemporary Irish fiction.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Maeve Kelly / Alice in Thunderland

  A riotous journey by Alice through the strange land of Thunderland, which is ruled by a species called the memblies. There are femblies too, of course ...       All of our books are second...

Daniel Woodrell / The Outlaw Album

 Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his...

Rebecca Tyrrel / Days Like These : Scenes from an Ordinary Life

 Bright, funny and utterly compelling, Rebecca Tyrrel's voice is both refreshingly honest and deliciously self-deprecating.Taken from her popular column in The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, this series...

Michele Roberts / Playing Sardines

 Playing Sardines - a game in the dark, a game about desire, about wanting, all whipped up in a tale about the erotic allure of recipes: a cook whose obsessive love turns hungry and dangerous; a fan...

Gene Kemp / Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler

Tyke Tiler is very fond of jokes, that's why there are so many in this story. Tyke is also fond of Danny Price, who is not too bright and depends a lot on his friend. Together Tyke and Danny are...

Carmel Winters / B for Baby

 'It was like we were two children - two innocent children just...playing' Mrs C wants a baby not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser's scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and 'a big...

Louise L. Hay / Letters to Louise : The Answers are within You

  A selection of letters written to the author by members of the public requesting advice on emotional, spiritual and practical problems. It also includes the author's answers, covering such...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Dancing with the Tsars

 I felt like I was living in a world teetering on the brink ... Life as a stay-in-bed husband turned out to be a

Stephen Fry / Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages (Hardback)

 Selected and presented by one of Wilde's biggest fans, the book includes a foreword from Stephen Fry, as well as introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they mean so much to him and...

Ó Leighléis, Ré - Ecstasy agus Scéalta Eile - PB- As Gaeilge - Gearrscéalta - BRAND NEW

Ardú, titim, dul faoi agus aiséirí an spioraid dhaonna is bunús don chnuasach ceannródaíoch seo sa déaglitríocht. Tá an Laighléiseach ina mháistir ar a cheird agus litríocht bheoga bheathaitheach...

O'Connor, Frank ( Editor) - A Book of Ireland - HB 1972 Edition - Anthology Literature

First published in 1959, this is a reprint edition 1964, an anthology of Irish literature and writing, selected and introduced by Frank O'Connor.  With 52 photographs, arranged thematically.  Frank...

B. J. Novak / One More Thing : Stories and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

   A boy wins $100,000 in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to follow his heart and throw...

Eilis NI Dhuibhne / The Pale Gold of Alaska (Large Paperback)

    In these subtle, deceptively simple new stories, the acclaimed Irish writer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne demonstrates her mastery of a form she is steadily reshaping to make her own. Dealing with the...

Micheál Ó Conghaile - Mac an tSagairt - PB An Chéad Chló - Sínithe SIGNED PB Gearrscéalta 1986 - As Gaeilge

An té arbh ait leis go bhféadfadh údar a bheith traidisiúnta agus nua-aimseartha le chéile gheobhaidh sé a fhreagra má léann sé an cnuasach gearrscéalta seo.- Alan Titley  An chéad chnuasach do...

John Connolly - Night Music : Nocturnes Volume 2 - SIGNED HB 1ST Edition 2015

Hardcover, published by Hodder UK, this copy signed by the author, there is a black adhesive 'signed first edition' sticker on the front cover, mpoderate age tanning to page block, scuffing and...

Sir Terry Wogan / Those Were the Days

   Welcome to the party. Pull up a chair, take your ease, and join Tom, king of the Cattle Market branch, for a bite to eat and a glass or two of wine.Come and meet his customers: many of whom have...

June Caldwell / Room Little Darker

   From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex,...

Anna Melia / A Walk in My Shoes

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Tom Hanks / Uncommon Type : Some Stories

   _________________________A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.A...

George R. R. Martin / Dangerous Women

   Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback.George R.R...

Paddy Kennelly / Disciples

    Insightful and often humorous novel in verse in which Irish people revel the ongoing influence of their Christian and English colonization. as well as vestiges of their pagan past...

Tama Janowitz / Area Code 212

    I was walking down the street and a homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest...

Michael McLaverty - Collected Short Stories - PB - Poolbeg 1978

First Poolbeg printing, 1978, one of a series of short story collections published by Poolbeg Press . With a short introduction by Seamus Heaney.  Condition - Very good, binding tight, even tanning...

Rich Hall / Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society

   The memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall's Perrier Award-winning alter ego'My Old Man's name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember...

Anne Miller / Goldfish in a Baby Bath

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Kim Edwards / The Secrets of a Fire King

   Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her - until her father condemns her to a life of spinsterhood.Joyce has settled into Malaysian life after thirty years as an ex-pat...

Margaret Atwood / Wilderness Tips

    A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling...

David Schickler / Kissing in Manhattan

   A breathtaking and stylish debut featuring the Pre-emption, the most glamorous and strange apartment building on earth, and some extraordinary characters: Patrick, the diabolic millionaire with a...

Bernard Schlink / Flights of Love

 'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER.A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare...

Tibor Fischer / Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid

 A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novella 'I Like being Killed' takes the lid...

Bernard MacLaverty / Matters Of Life & Death

 Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without question - one of the finest contemporary examples of the...

A.L. Kennedy / Now That You're Back

   Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, A.L. Kennedy examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny...

William Boyd / The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

 A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others...

Simon Van Booy / The Secret Lives of People in Love

    Offers a collection of stories that are set in New York City, Wales, Cornwall, Paris, Rome and Greece. This title explores love's labour and love's loss.     All of our books are second...

Margaret Clark / A Treasury of Dragon Stories

    Comprising 15 stories, this collection of dragon stories includes contributions from writers such as Judy Corbalis, Terry Jones, Jamila Gavin and Robin Klein.     All of our books are...

Margaret Dolan / Wire Me to the Moon

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Molly Ringwald / When It Happens to You

    Tales of love, loss, and betrayal are at the heart of When It Happens to You, the debut novel in stories from actress and author Molly Ringwald. A Hollywood icon, Ringwald defined the teenage...

Nick Larter - Irish Tales - Hardcover 1st Edition 2019 -SIGNED - Fantasy Collection

You’ve seen fairies before. Of course, you have. But not this. You’ve never seen anything like this.  Peadar Ó Guilín (from his foreword)   

Peter Robinson / The Price of Love ( Short Stories )

  When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent...

Elizabeth Cook / The Roaring Girl

    This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she...

Re O Laighleis / Ecstasy and Other Stories

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

John B. Keane / An Irish Christmas Feast : The Best of John B. Keane's Christmas Stories (Hardback)

Richard Ford / A Multitude of Sins

    A collection of ten stories about marriage and adultery, passion and infidelity, disappointment and revenge. Ford looks at commitment, boredom, responsibility and the cruel things people do...

Simon Mayo / Blame

   What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed? That's the situation in which Ant finds herself - together with her little brother Mattie and their...

James Joyce / The Dead

 The year is 1904 in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music...

Garrison Keillor / The Book of Guys

 A collection of twenty humorous short stories about men in crises, among them Zeus, the Father of Heaven, George Bush, Gary Keillor, Norman Conquest and Dionysius. From the author of LAKE WOBEGON...