Short Stories & Anthologies

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 foster-parents, she's locked up in a new...

James Joyce - Dubliners : Panther PB Ed 1979 - with Illustrations and notes by Robert Scholes

Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began...

Lee Child / No Middle Name : The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories (Large Paperback)

 Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack...

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 DAYS and RADIO ROMANCE.      All...

Mick Jackson - Bears of England - HB 1st Ed Faber 2009 - Short Stories

There is no category of bear whose story makes for more depressing reading, and whose miserable existence heaps more shame on humanity than that which follows...' Taking in these bears in chains, the circus bears of Bristol, the Victorian sewer...

Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch of Strange - Vintage Hardcover Short Stories - PB Science Fiction 1958

Nine SF stories, more long than short, have an added ingredient of philosophy, of the theory that ""never can a sole unit exist alone and unsupplied"", and of the necessity of communication. The title piece tells of the meeting of a couple who have been...

Mary Costello / The China Factory : Stories

 A reprint of Mary Costello's haunting debut story collection. "Irish writer Costello shows a mastery of the short-fiction form in her first collection. Her prose is subtle, strong, and lyrical, while her knowledge of human nature yields memorable...

Mary Morrissy / Prosperity Drive

 A wonderful writer' Hilary Mantel All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl...

Fay Weldon / A Hard Time to be a Father

 A collection of 19 tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire, and necessary restraint; of the near future, the recent past; of old habits, new technology; of won't-be mothers and...

Máirtín Ó Cadhain - The Road to Brightcity - Translation by Eoghan ó Tuairisc - PB - Poolbeg 1982

The Road to Brightcity and Other Stories is a translation to English from the original Gaeilge, Poolbeg, 1981, by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc of a selection of short stories by Máirtín Ó Cadhain 1906-1970, taken from two of his...

Liam Ó Flaitheartha - Dúil - PB As Gaeilge - Gearrscéalta - Short Stories

Foilsíodh an cnuasach cáiliúil seo de chuid gearrscéalta Gaeilge Liam Uí Fhlaithearta den chéad uair i 1953 agus is é seo an t-aon bhailiúchán scéalta Gaeilge a tháinig uaidh...

Dublin in the Coming Times : An Anthology of Imagined Futures - PB - Short Fiction

The book features a selection of short stories, poetry and prose from members of Dublin City Libraries Creative Writing Groups alongside writings from well known established authors. In his 1893 collection, ‘The Rose’, WB Yeats included the...

Gerard Donovan / Country of the Grand

 A young man driving across Ireland with his wife asks her how long she would wait before being with another man if he died. A man is trapped, hidden, in a small changing room by the sea on Galway Bay, as he listens to his friends discuss his wife's...

Dermot Bolger / The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (Hardback)

 This volume features fiction published since 1970. Arranged in chronological order, the volume moves from the traditional to the futuristic. Authors featured include Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Patrick McCabe, Edna O'Brien, John...

Edna O'Brien / The Love Object : Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien (Hardback)

 Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections...

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

 When the collection was first published in 1992, the "Sunday Times" said 'there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories', while for Cressida Connolly in the "Evening Standard" 'these wonderful stories are sad and true.....

Lee Child / No Middle Name ( Jack Reacher Short Stories )

 Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack...

Paul Cookson / The Works

 THE WORKS contains every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader.It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics,...

Charlie Higgson / WOW! 366 : Speedy Stories in Just 366 Words

   This is a unique anthology crammed with fantastic stories, each told in just 366 words, from some of the top authors in children's fiction. That's as many words as there are days in this leap year! In this work, the contributors include...

John Green / Let It Snow

 Three wonderful holiday romances by three of America's bestselling authors, including John Green - author of the multi-million bestseller The Fault in Our Stars.An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple...

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...

Niall Toibin ( Editor) - The Irish Reciter - PB 1986 - Ballads, Poems and Recitations for every occasion

Selected and introduced by Niall Toibin, illustrated, this is a guide to some of the most classic irish poems, songs and readings from the long history of Irish music and spoken performance. with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century writings A very good...

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...

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...

Stephen Fry / The Ode Less Travelled

 Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written...

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...

Elizabeth Bowen / Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Stories

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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 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...

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...

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...

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!

A collection of eight quirky, bizarre, and very funny short 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,...

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...

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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Colum McCann / Fishing the Sloe-black River

Stunning collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of DANCER An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of...

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...

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...

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...