Short Stories & Anthologies

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...

Bill Henderson / The Pushcart Prize XVII : Best of the Small Presses 1992-1993 (Hardback)

An anthology of short fiction from America's alternative literary presses features a variety of short stories, poems, and essays selected from the thousands read by small press editors.     All of...

Wendy Perriam / The Biggest Female in the World (Hardback)

With this collection of short stories, th

Etgar Keret / Fly Already (Hardback)

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you want...

David Almond / Half a Creature from the Sea : A Life in Stories (Hardback)

In fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand in hand with watery lies…May Malone is said to have a monster in her house, but...

Paul D. Staudohar / Boxing's Best Short Stories (Hardback)

A collection of twenty-two short stories evoking the slap of boxing gloves on sweaty flesh and the fierce shouts from ringside includes the work of Ring Lardner, Nelson Algren, Jack London, Paul...

Arlene Heyman / Scary Old Sex (Large Paperback)

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married,...

David Hale Smith / Dallas Noir (Large Paperback)

Featuring brand-new stories by: Kathleen Kent, Ben Fountain, James Hime, Harry Hunsicker, Matt Bondurant, Merritt Tierce, Daniel J. Hale, Emma Rathbone, Jonathan Woods, Oscar C. Peña, Clay Reynolds,...

Pam Durban / All Set About with Fever Trees and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

The seven stories in Pam Durban's widely praised debut collection are tales of family, of love and loss, of survival and affirmation. Durban's resonant prose subtly obliges her readers to experience...

Duncan Minshull / Fanfare : Fourteen Stories on a Musical Theme (Large Paperback)

A 1999 anthology of stories with musical themes (initially broadcast on BBC Radio 3) by authors who include William Boyd, Rose Tremain, Penelope Fitzgerald, Christopher Hope and John Mortimer...

Michael Chabon / Werewolves in Their Youth (Large Paperback)

The second collection of short stories from the highly acclaimed author of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS.There are the two boys of the title story, locked in their own...

Siobhan Parkinson / Home an Anthology of Modern Irish Writing (Large Paperback)

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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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Anne Donovan / Hieroglyphics and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

This collection offers portraits of lives lived with barely contained compassion. The author moves between narrators and genres, exploring her central theme of language and voicelessness.     All of...

The Fish Anthology 2008 / Harlem River Blues & Other Stories (Large Paperback)

A collection of short fiction from the Fish Short Story Prize 2008.      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...

Westland Row: A collection of work from the first M. Phil in creative writing, Trinity College, Dublin (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...

Jay McInerney / How it Ended

A transsexual prostitute accidentally propositions his own father. A senator's serial infidelities leave him in hot water. And two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs...

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,...

Mervyn Wall - A Flutter of Wings - Swan River Press Edition - PB - BRAND NEW

"Strange," he said to himself. "I had an idea that Pat's Tommy was dead." — "Cloonaturk"First collected in 1974, the stories in A Flutter of Wings span Mervyn Wall's entire writing career, dating...

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...

John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Hardback)

A short anthology of Christmas themed essays and short fiction from the Kerry master, John B Keane.  Mercier Press 1996     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

A Blushing Object: New Irish Writing from UCD MA Creative Writing 2016 (Large Paperback)

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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...

Gary Soto / Facts of Life : Stories (Hardback)

What do Gaby Lopez, Michael Robles, and Cynthia Rodriguez have in common? These three kids join other teens and tweens in Gary Soto's new short story collection, in which the hard-knock facts of...

Alec Ash / While We're Here : China Stories from a Writers' Colony (Large Paperback)

Anyone who has lived in China has stories to tell. For foreigners and Chinese alike, this is a land that transforms itself every day, with something to write about on every corner. Collected in this...

People's Friend 2018 Annual (Hardback)

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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,...

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...

Bryan MacMahon / The Tallystick

MacMahon represents a particularly Irish form of storytelling that largely belongs to a bygone era.... These pieces are what their author believes good stories should the interesting reactions of...

Paul B. Taylor / Australian Ripping Yarns II (Large Paperback)

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

 Broomsticks. Black Cats.Pointy Hats.

The Peoples Friend Annual 2015 (Hardback)

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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,...