Short Stories & Anthologies

Lawrence Block ( Editor) / Manhattan Noir 2 : The Classics (Large Paperback)

Lawrence Block (Editor/Author), a collection of  classic crime any mystery themed short stories set in New York  Classic reprints from: Edith W

Frank O'Connor - The Mad Lomasneys - Vintage PB

A Pan Books UK paperback edition, 1970's . The prices on the back cover have been covered with a black marker, there is spine lean, tanning to pages, and previous owner's name to title page...

Frank O'Connor - Masculine Protest and Other Stories - Vintage PB

A collection of short fiction by O'connor, with period wraparound image of Cork city on front cover. Fade to spine, usual age tanning to pages.  1972 reprint edition, Pan Books UK. 

Brian J. Showers / The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories (Hardback)

A collection of stories portraying a neig

Deirdre Sullivan / I Want To Know That I Will Be Okay (Hardback)

In this dark, glittering collection of short stories, Deirdre Sullivan explores the trauma and power that reside in women's bodies.A teenage girl tries to fit in at a party held in a haunted house,...

Antoni Jach / Travelling Companions (Large Paperback)

Solitary travellers and a couple encounter Nina, an eloquent storyteller, on their travels through Spain, France and Italy. She entrances them all with her tales, which prompts her fellow travelling...

Karl MacDermott /Juggling With Turnips (Large Paperback)

An overweight Mafioso wants to dance like Michael Flatley. A comedian hires an unreliable heckler to disrupt the high profile gig of a rival. A young boy develops a bizarre addiction to communion...

Patsey Murphy ( Editor) / Celebrating What Truly Matters: Powers Irish Whiskey Short Story Collection Volume One (Hardback)

    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 author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Gerry Adams / Black Mountain : and other stories

In this collection, one of Ireland’

Wells Tower / Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Large Paperback)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a...

Dora Murphy - The Watched and Other Stories - PB

Published by the Carlow Writers Group, this is a collection of short stories by Dora Murphy ( born 1902) . Published 1992. 

Irelands Own / Origal Writing from Ireland's Own (Large Paperback)

Edited by Maeve Binchy, a collection of original writing ( short stories ) from the pages of Ireland's Own Magazine.    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Patrick Boyle - All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye - HB

Hardcover, first edition MacGibbon & Kee, 1969. Short Stories.  Patrick Boyle was an Irish novelist. Boyle was born in 1905 in Ballymoney, County Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in County...

Yan Ge / Elsewhere (Large Paperback)

'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?'In her highly anticipated English-language debut,...

Stephen Coonts ( Editor) / Combat (Large Paperback)

As the world moves into the next millennium, the United States finds itself at the forefront of a new age, policing not only its own shores, but the rest of the world as well. Spearheading this are...

Kate Figes / The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (Large Paperback)

The Penguin Book of International Women's

Will Self / Dr. Mukti and other tales of woe (Large Paperback)

The titular tale is another peep into the grim auguries of Dr. Zack Busner, here embroiled in a vicious tête-à-tête with the Hindu upstart Dr. Mukti, a chronically fed-up psychiatrist seeking to...

Wendy Erskine - Dance Move - PB - BRAND NEW

Meet Mrs Dallesandro, luxuriating in a Belfast tanning salon on her wedding anniversary, dreaming of a teenage sexual encounter. Or Max, recalling an eventful car journey to a Christian film festival...

Tim Peacock / Tales from Table Mountain (Exact Copy)

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Dora Murphy.. / The Watched and Other Stories (Exact Copy)

A wonderful collection of short stories by Irish author Dora Murphy, including "Saturday", in which a young woman in 1960s Ireland struggles to make travel arrangements so she can go get an abortion...

Dora Murphy. / The Watched and Other Stories (Exact Copy)

  The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. We just happened to get in this copy and will probably never have another one.  Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an...

Dora Murphy / The Watched and Other Stories (Exact Copy)

A wonderful collection of short stories by Irish author Dora Murphy, including "Saturday", in which a young woman in 1960s Ireland struggles to make travel arrangements so she can go get an abortion...

A J Vosse / The Lucky Thirteen (Large Paperback)

The Lucky Thirteen - Thirteen short stories that swing from intensely personal to far-flung fantastic. Myth and realism together with the harsh reality of war and greed. Thirteen unique and...

Alan Wall / Richard Dadd in Bedlam and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

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Cici. B / Lost And Found: The Book Of Short Stories (Large Paperback)

Every so

Susan Compo / Life After Death and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

The cutting edge of the post-punk Los Ang

Paul Theroux / The Collected Stories

A volume of stories, featuring: Sinning W

Damon Galgut / Small Circle of Beings

Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at homeThe family—that small circle of beings where love should flourish—can be an arid and...

Iain Crichton / Listen To The Voice : Selected Stories

This col

Shane Tivnan - To Avenge a Dead Glacier - PB - BRAND NEW

Winner of the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Prize and the John McGahern Award, Shane Tivenan is a remarkable new talent. This debut collection simmers with style, verve, tension and humour...

Mary O'Donnell - Walking Ghosts - PB - BRAND NEW

In these masterful stories, Mary O’Donnell captures characters caught between certainties and change — from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches, lockdown anxieties to nightclub tensions. Her...

Pamela Lyon ( Editor) - Penguin Parallel Text : French Short Stories / Nouvelles Francaises - PB

 Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French...

Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction

Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and...

Fergus Brogan ( Editor) - True To Type : 18 Stories - PB 1991

Co-published by Irish Times Books and Sugarloaf Publications, 1991.  A collection of 18 ( fiction) short stories from journalists and writers for the Irish Times, With cartoons by Martyn Turner...

John Connolly / Night Music: Nocturnes Volume Two (Hardback)

From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mysteries—"the finest crime series currently in existence" (The Independent)—comes a new anthology of chilling short fiction.A decade after Nocturnes...

William Trevor / The Collected Stories (Hardback)

From his debut collection, The Day We Got Drunk on Cake, published in 1968, to Family Sins (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories...

Anthony Glavin - One for Sorrow - PB

Published by Poolbeg Press, 1980 Donegal is the setting for most of Anthony Glavin's short stories, either in the county itself, or in those set elsewhere, the memory of Donegal is on the minds of...

Anita Desai / Diamond Dust And Other Stories (Hardback)

Anita Desai, in a succession of fine novels and short story collections written over almost 40 years, was one of the first writers from the sub-continent to introduce Western readers to...

Tess Gallagher / The Lover of Horses

This first collection of short stories from the poet Tess Gallagher celebrates the people who live in small American towns and suburbs, dramatizing the crises and revelations of "ordinary" lives...

Re O Laighleis / Bolgchaint agus scealta Eile

      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 we...

Mark Valentine - Lost Estates - PB - BRAND NEW

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the way books.” – S. T. Coleridge (1796) The twelve stories in Lost Estates offer antiquarian mysteries,...

Robert Lloyd Parry - Friends and Spectres - PB - BRAND NEW

Friends and Spectres is an exploration of the world of M. R. James through his colleagues’ stories and biographies. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over...

Claire-Louise Kieffer - Tenterhooks - PB - BRAND NEW

The Clane Writers / Kildare Ways (Large Paperback)

Edited by Ann Egan, published 2003.  Local writing and authors in an anthology, all from the Clane area, County Kildare.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Kara Writers Workshop / Whispering Trees (Large Paperback)

Patricia Phinney, Anne McManus & Colm O'Byrne, Editors.  2016, Galway.      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...

Naas Creative Writers Group / Cuisle Chill Dara : The Heartbeat of Kildare - Volume II (Large Paperback)

A 2023 selection from Naas Creative Writers Group, paperback.      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...

El Furtivo / Harry Crosbie (Large Paperback)

The book contains a colourful collection of short stories, tragic and hilarious in equal measure - these proper Dublin tales encapsulate the idosyncrasies of the city's characters, both old and new...

Helen Grant - Atmospheric Disturbances - HB - BRAND NEW

In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window A glimpse of a grotesque illustration combined with the onset of fever instigate a...

Maeve Brennan - The Rose Garden - BRAND NEW

Paperback, published by Stinging Fly, Dublin, 2024. BRAND NEW    “Here, in a lovely new Irish edition, is the second batch of twenty stories from the unmistakable Dublin-born, New York-based, writer...

Helen Byatt ( Editor) / Vintage Book of Love Stories

A collection of short stories that explore the subject of l

Peter Sellers / Whistling Past the Graveyard: Stories of Bizarre Crime and Dark Fantasy (Large Paperback)

Weekend package trips to hell. A hunter o

Shelly Devlin / As the Chair Turns... Untangling the meaning of life (Large Paperback)

Being a