Short Stories & Anthologies

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...

Carol Shields / Collected Stories

 For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume. `Carol Shields' stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure' Alice Munro In the Collected...

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...

Edna O'Brien / Saints and Sinners

 A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the...

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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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...

Gillian Flynn / The Grownup

A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one...

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...

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...

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...

Colm Toibin / The Empty Family

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. 'I imagined lamplight,...

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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Helen Simpson / Four Bare Legs in a Bed

Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. By...

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...

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...

Edna O'Brien / Lantern Slides

Contains 12 short stories in which the main themes are innocence and experience. The characters live in cities or in the country and have a craving for redemption - through love, solitude or self-awareness. From the author of "A Pagan Place" and "Night"...

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...

Ha Jin / The Bridegroom

This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from...

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 McGahern / The Collected Stories - Faber PB

This collection of short stories are from the author shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize with his book "Amongst Women". John McGahern is also the author of "The Barracks", "The Dark", "Getting Through" and "The Pornographer".All of our books are second...

Niall Macmonagle / Off the Wall

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Mary Ryan / Glenallen

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Guy De Maupassant / Selected Short Stories

A selection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant which includes Boule de Suif, The Minuet, Madame Husson's May King, A Vendetta, A Deal, The Model, The Olive Grove, Rose, At Sea, The Capture of Walter Schaffs and The Piece of String.All of our books...

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 D. Sheridan / Paradise Alley

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Pam Ayres / The Works: The Classic Collection

The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish...

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...

O Henry / 100 Selected Stories

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Gerard Whelan / Big Pictures

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Maeve Brennan / The Springs of Affection

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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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Robertson Davies / The Rebel Angels

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Jeffrey Archer / A Twist in the Tail

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Sidney Sheldon / If Tomorrow Comes

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Pam Ayres / With These Hands

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Edgar Allan Peo / Selected Tales

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Annie Proulx / Close Range

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Maeve Binchy / Dublin 4

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