Short Stories & Anthologies

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...

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

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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

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

Tony Bradman / How to Be a Boy

Ten edgy stories from the streets of Britain and the US, inspired by the pressures of being a twenty-first century boy.Teenage boys are trouble. It’s in the news, on the front page – everywhere you...

Neil Gaiman / The Weerde - Book 1 : A Shared World Anthology

One theory weaves like a constant thread of darkness through human history. The rumour of an ancient race, more powerful than we are. This book contains 11 chilling stories that expose this theory...

Claire Hennessy ( Editor) / Words to Tie to Bricks

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Lisa St. Aubin de Teran / Southpaw Stories

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Roddy Doyle / The Complete Two Pints

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged...

Stephen Dobyns / Eating Naked

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

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Frederick Forsyth / The Veteran and other stories (Hardback)

A collection of five heart-stopping stories from the master thriller writer.A miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century...

Sean Dunne / The Cork Anthology (Large Paperback)

The Cork Anthology is a collection of poetry and prose on Cork life written over twelve centuries. It was compiled by Seán Dunne who wrote in its introduction; "There is a sense in which every place...

Clem Cairns ( Editor) / Fish Anthology 2005 (Large Paperback)

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Flame Tree Publishing / Agents and Spies - Short Stories - HB -2017

Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of...

Sinners: New Irish Crime Stories

Sinners is the third enthralling anthology of new crime writing from the3percenters. A chance meeting on a luxury cruise liner triggers a series of terrifying events. Craving the approval of his...

George Layton / The Trick and Other Stories

George Layton’s stories evoke a nostalgic, atmospheric view of growing up in the 1950s. From the funny and faintly ridiculous to the terribly tragic, every tale brings a young boy’s small world, and...

Guy de Maupassant / Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

In addition to the title story, this volume includes Shepherd's Leap, Call it Madness?, Two Friends, At Sea, The Tribulations of Walter Schnaffs, Miss Harriet, A Duel, A Vendetta, The Model, Mother...

Maeve Kelly - Orange Horses - PB - BRAND NEW

 The 20 stories that make up Orange Horses, first published as a collection in 1990, richly illustrate the plight of marginalised women in contemporary Irish society. Kelly draws from a variety of...

Sean Farrell ( Editor) - Tidings : An Anthology of New Irish Christmas Stories - HB - BRAND NEW

Tidings is an anthology of freshly commissioned Irish Christmas writing - short stories and essays by some of Ireland's best writers, written on the theme of 'Christmas parties'. This astounding...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A slim paperback,...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Paris Syndrome - PB - BRAND NEW

 Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2020 Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer category 2020 Longlisted for the Edge...

Deirdre Sullivan - I Want to Know I Will Be Okay - PB - BRAND NEW

It had felt a bit like being haunted, being pregnant. Unexpected thumps, and moments when she would be reminded that there was a little person living inside of her. For a while afterwards, sometimes...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Let's Dance - PB - BRAND NEW

Katharine Tynan - The Death Spancel and Others - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

“Come to me, a lonely ghost, / Out of the night and rain.” Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many other writers of the early twentieth century,...

June Caldwell - Room Little Darker - PB - AS NEW

From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex, broken...

Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977

A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages...

James Lee Burke / Harbour Lights (Large Paperback)

Harbour Lights is a story collection fromone of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the...

Hilma Wolitzer / Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning author who is ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many...

The People's Friend Annual 2021 (Hardback)

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Rick Moody / Demonology (Large Paperback)

These stories are abundant proof of Rick Moody's grace as a stylist and a shaper of interior lives. He writes with equal force about the blithe energies of youth ("Boys") and the rueful onset of...

Iain S. Thomas / I Wrote This for You : Just the Words (Large Paperback)

The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This for YouI Wrote This For Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and...

Niamh King / Sea of Ink : A Creative Writing Anthology (Large Paperback)

Sea of Ink promises to suit all reading tastes. If you are looking for heartbreakingly honest life writing, fiction with a sting in the tale or lovingly crafted poetry,you will find it in this...

Garrison Keillor / Life among the Lutherans (Large Paperback)

Based on Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues, Life among the Lutherans is a collection of stories about the struggles of ordinary people in an imperfect world, the life and work of the pastor...

People's Friend 2018 Annual (Hardback)

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Goodbye Europe : Writers and Artists Say Farewell (Large Paperback)

This is not a book about politics. It is a book about what makes the writers British, and what makes them European. Spend time with some of your favourite writers and artists in this truly unique...

Benedict Kiely - A Cow in the House and Other Stories - HB 1978 - First Edition

A hardcover first edition, published by Victor Gollancz UK, 1978, attractive small format hardcover with tan and green colour cover design.  Externally, creasing to dustjacket. Internally excellent,...

Stuart Neville / The Traveller and Other Stories

 A darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning authorSince his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a...

David Stuart Davies ( Editor) / Selected Stories from the 19th Century

 Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great...

Jonathan Strahan ( Editor) / Under My Hat : Tales from the Cauldron (Large Paperback)

 Broomsticks. Black Cats.Pointy Hats.

Ian R. Macleod - Breathmoss and Other Exhalations - HB - SHORT STORIES ( Golden Gryphon USA -2004)

This collection of literary short fiction combines fantasy, science fiction, and horror in vivid settings, peopled with ordinary humans with normal relationships, and the interaction of the mundane...

Ian R Macleod - SONG OF TIME - HB ( PS Publishing UK - 2008)

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial A future world of unrelenting change, strangeness, and uncertainty, experienced through the passions and memories of one...

L.T Meade - Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

I was in the dark and alone, yet not alone.” Despite her wide contributions to genre literature, Cork author L. T. Meade is now remembered, if at all, for her girls’ school stories. However, in 1898...

Maria Giakaniki & Brian J Showers ( Editors) - Bending to Earth : Strange Stories by Irish Women - PB BRAND NEW - Gothic & Horror Short Stories

Swan River Press books are beautiful.  This is the 2019 issued Bending To Earth, edited introduced and selcetd by Maria Giakaniki and Brian J Showers, small format hardcover in illustrated boards,...

Henry C. Mercer - November Night Tales - PB - Swan River Press - BRAND NEW

“History fades into prehistoric darkness . . . “ Each story in November Night Tales is a differently colored gem whose many facets reflect the lively mind of the author. Henry C. Mercer’s life-long...

Clotilde Graves - A Vanished Hand - PB ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“Only the dead are faithful to Love—because they are dead.” Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist “Clo Graves”, but became better...