Short Stories & Anthologies

Christopher Fitz-Simon - Organ Voluntary - HB - BRAND NEW

These vivid, masterful short stories explore the condition of Ireland’s people as the country steps cautiously towards modernity. Caught between tradition and change, the characters portrayed long to...

Dermot Bolger - Imperfect Beings - PB - BRAND NEW

Short stories. Life moves forward, but its meaning often emerges in hindsight. In this luminous collection, Dermot Bolger captures those unexpected moments when past loves and choices resurface with...

Roald Dahl / The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two 1954-1988

The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes.'Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the...

Ha Jin / The Bridegroom (Large Paperback)

In The Bridegroom, a vibrant collection of 12 stories, Ha Jin returns to Muji City, post-Cultural Revolution, where the confusions and excitements of transitions great and small spark off...

Andrew Plattner / A Marriage of Convenience : Stories (Large Paperback)

In Andrew Plattner's new story collection, A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE, characters try to improve their odds, on the racetrack and in life. In "Runaway," teenager Hawley Bolton longs to run away from...

Mark Richard / The Ice at the Bottom of the World (Large Paperback)

In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner.   This book is...

Fred Johnston / Keeping the Night Watch (Large Paperback)

These eleven stories by the Irish poet, critic, and novelist Fred Johnston generally explore the concept of the internal exile, the outsider in contemporary society. These are stories about bright...

Ira Sukrungruang / What Are You Looking At? (Large Paperback)

What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology  

Eden Robinson / Traplines (Large Paperback)

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William Vorm ( Editor) - Paddy No More : Modern Irish Short Stories - PB 1978

Published by Wolfhound Publishing, 1978, a collection of 10 short styories by Irish writers, most originally published in teh preceding years - so 1970-77.  Juanita Casey, Michael Foley, Dermot...

Anne O'Carroll & Stephen Martin ( Editors) / Feathers and Cigarettes (Large Paperback)

Fish aims to discover new and exciting talent both in Ireland and abroad, and publish it, bringing a taste of the latest Irish literature around the world, while taking back some of theirs. In 1994...

Winners of the 1991 Ian St James Awards / Midnight Oil (Large Paperback)

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Henry Murphy / Brief Cases (Large Paperback)

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Danzy Senna / You Are Free (Large Paperback)

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Liadán Ní Chuinn - Every One Still Here - PB - BRAND NEW ( 2026 EDITION)

A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Flowers are found, left in bouquets, all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect the human body...

Sara Berkeley - The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream - PB - 1991

Paperback, published by Raven Arts Press, Dublin 1991. A collection of short stories.  A businessman is mesmerized by the woman he follows from a London tube. A Dublin mother raises her children...

Fran O'Reilly / True Tales and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

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S.R Crockett - Red Cap Tales - HB 1908

Red Cap TalesStolen From the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North [SCOTT, Sir Walter] / CROCKETT, S.R. A & C Black, 1908 ( The first edition was 1904) . Orange pictorial cloth with gilt...

Sigrid Rausing / Granta Issue 150 : There Must Be Ways to Organise the World with Language (Large Paperback)

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #150 Four times a year, Br

Lucy Caldwell / Intimacies (Large Paperback)

Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a...

Ian Mannix / Great Australian Bushfire Stories (Large Paperback)

A collection of remarkable stories from all around Australia that tell of Australia's fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Lynda Prescott / A World of Difference

"This anthology brings together an international selection of short stories by distinguished modern writers from five continents (America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe).   The fifteen stories...

Richard Lange / Sweet Nothing

In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns to the form that first landed him on the literary map.These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried...

Austin Clarke / Choosing His Coffin- Short Stories (Large Paperback)

Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories -Austin Clarke

Kelly Link / Pretty Monsters: Stories (Hardback)

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Kim Edwards / The Secrets of a Fire King (Large Paperback)

In each of these elegant and mesmerizing stories, Kim Edwards explores the lives of those who exist on the fringes of society--a fire-eater, an American and his Korean war bride, a juggler and a...

Jeffrey Eugenides ( Editor) / My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (Hardback)

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro

Stephen Walsh / Shine | Variance (Large Paperback)

" Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times " An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice"...

Blanaid McKinney / Big Mouth (Large Paperback)

Big Mouth is a book that delivers, Big Time. Each story has the potency and emotional range of a novella; many of them lodging in the memory, uncomfortable as shrapnel. These are strange, tough, and...

Paul D. Staudohar / Golf's Best Short Stories (Large Paperback)

Every decade of the 20th century and many great writers, including P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Gallico, Don Marquis, and John Updike, are represented in these great tales of golf. British duffers, amateur...

Amy Bloom / Come to Me (Large Paperback)

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Amy Bloom / A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Large Paperback)

A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a finalist...

Yuka Igarashi / Best Debut Short Stories 2022 (Large Paperback)

 Sarah Lyn Rogers (Editor) The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Dees

Dave Lordan / Planet New Cabaret (Large Paperback)

In December 2012, New Island and RTÉ Radio One’s ARENA launched the first on-air creative writing course. The course took place on the first week of each month until June 2013. Writer and creative...

Bernhard Schlink / Flights of Love (Hardback)

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John O'Donnell / Almost the Same Blue (Large Paperback)

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The Caine Prize for African Writing / Jambula Tree and other stories (Large Paperback)

The Caine Prize for African Writing #2008

Mícheál Ó hOdhráin - Slán leis an gComhluadar - PB - 1961 - Gearrscéalta

Cnuasach gearrscéalta, 1961, foilsithe ag FNT, Baile Átha Cliath. Maisithe agus clúdach le Karl Uhlemann. 

Peter Robinson / Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories (Large Paperback)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping in the Ground comes this brilliantly nuanced short story collection of twenty stories—most never before published in the US, and one of them an...

Declan Meade (Editor) - Dublin, Written In Our Hearts - PB

An Anthology Celebrating 20 Years of One Dublin One Book One Dublin One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative co-ordinated by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin City Libraries. For the...

Maureen Sparling / The Gold Nugget (Large Paperback)

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Fighting Words / A Small Collection of Wonder (Large Paperback) ( Colaiste Mhuire Cabra Transition Year 2021)

Story telling is universal. We need each other’s words to make sense of the world we live in, and we need to read to take us to those places that we cannot currently be. We also need young writers to...

Laois Writers Group / Words UnLaoised (Large Paperback)

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Suzanne Power ( Editor) / Moths against Glass (Large Paperback)

Moths against Glass is an anthology of work produced by students  from Tipperary, Carlow, Kildare, Laois, Wicklow and Kilkenny who study, write and agonize once a month at NUIM’s Kilkenny Campus...

Suzanne Power ( Editor) / Word Weavers - A First Anthology (Large Paperback)

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Helena Mulkerns / Waiting for the Rain (Large Paperback)

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Ireland's Own / The 2021 Anthology of Winning Irish Short Stories and Memories (Large Paperback)

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Fighting Words / What's the stories? (Large Paperback)

Stories from Collinstown College Transition Year students.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Compass Writers / Between Water, Land and Sky (Large Paperback)

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Molly Keane & Sally Phipps - Molly Keane's Ireland : An Anthology - PB 1993

A Ted Smart ( Bookclub) edition 1993, of an anthology of Irish writing - fiction, poetry, historical accounts, essays, non fiction, from earliiest times, edited and selected by Molly Keane. 

Mitchelstown Writers Group - Another Mitchelstown Miscellany - PB 2016

Published 2016, a collection of local history, stort stories, poetry and essays by local writers and residents of the north Cork town. 

Lisa Taddeo / Ghost Lover (Large Paperback)