Short Stories & Anthologies

Iain Crichton / Listen To The Voice : Selected Stories

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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...

A.S. Byatt / Sugar And Other Stories

A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in

Bernard MacLaverty / A Time to Dance

Bernard Mac Laverty's beautifully turned

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

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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

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)

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Sam Kirwan / Talkin' 3 A.M. Blues (Large Paperback)

A collection of poems, creative writings and short stories.      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...

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

The Penguin Book of International Wom

Aleksandar Hemon / Love and Obstacles: Stories (Hardback)

Set in the darkest heart of Africa, in the backwaters of Slovenia, in the melting pot of Chicago, this brilliant collection of stories is coloured throughout by the 1992 Bosnian war.All but one of...

Alexander McCall Smith ( Editor) / What You Wish For : Stories (Hardback)

A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugees. With contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For...

Fireside Book 2016 (Hardback)

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The Friendship Book 2019 (Hardback)

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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...

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...