Short Stories & Anthologies

Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking

 A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story awardAs it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent...

Leo Cullen / Clocking Ninety on the Road to Cloughjordan : And Other Stories

 A boy discovers Santa can't bring the present he wants due to the Suez blockade; a one-armed village idiot defeats a circus boxing champion; a funeral cortege disintegrates into a farcical race; and a married man discovers he enjoys the company of...

G.K. Chesterton / Father Brown Stories

 With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first...

William Trevor / Selected Stories (Hardback)

 A marvelous collection from "the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" ("The New Yorker"). Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, and five-time finalist for the Man Booker...

Roald Dahl / Switch Bitch

 In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius...

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 reprint.    Kevin Barry received widespread critical acclaim and the...

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...

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...

John Irving / Trying To Save Piggy Sneed

Featuring six stories from John Irving, 'Trying to Save Piggy Sneed' also includes a piece from the author explaining why he became a writer.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books...

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...

Paul Jennings / Undone!

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Morris West / Cassidy

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Victoria Hislop / The Last Dance and Other Stories

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening.In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the tree-lined squares of Greek villages. As she evokes...

John McGahern / Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was first published in 1992, the "Sunday Times" said 'there...

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...

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...

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

John B. Keane - Celebrated Letters of John B Keane - HB Omnibus 1990 ( Letters of a Successful TD, Letters of an Irish Parish Priest, Letters of a a Love Hungry Farmer, Letters of a Matchmaker, Letters of an Irish Minister of State)

 A hardcover omnibus collection of 5 of the noted 'Celebrated Letters' series by John B Keane - published in this series by Irish Life in association with Wolfhound Press, 1990. These were previously published in paperback by the Mercier Press...

Niall Macmonagle / Off the Wall

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Mary Ryan / Glenallen

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Mark O'Rowe / Our Few and Evil Days

A chilling yet deeply human story about the limits of devotion.Adele and her parents have always been close. But recently, that closeness has been tainted by an increasing sense of mistrust. Tonight, a visit from a stranger will force them to confront...

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...

John Wood / In a Secret Place

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

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John Somer & J Daly ( 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...

Anne Harvey / Shades of Green

A wide-ranging collection of nature poems for children, chosen by Anne Harvey. This is the perfect collection for introducing children to the magic of poetry. Includes poems from Thomas Hardy, Spike Milligan, Laurie Lee, Ian Serraillier, John Betjemen,...

Oriah Mountain Dreamer / The Invitation

Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation, whose truths have resonated with people all over the...

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...

Gerard Whelan / Big Pictures

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Kate Cruise O'Brien / A Gift Horse

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Tracey Turner / Writers and Their Tall Tales

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Maeve Binchy / Maeve's Times

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Jeffrey Archer / A Twist in the Tail

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Sidney Sheldon / If Tomorrow Comes

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Annie Proulx / Close Range

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Jeffrey Archer / To Cut A Long Story Short

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Henry Lawson - While The Billy Boils - PB

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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