Short Stories & Anthologies

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...

Catherine Leroux / Granta 141: Canada (Large Paperback)

From Canada's global cities to its Arctic Circle - from the country's ongoing story of civil rights movements to languages under pressure - the writers in this issue upend the ways we imagine land,...

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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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,...

John MacKenna - We Seldom Talk About the Past - PB - BRAND NEW

We Seldom Talk About the Past is the first selection of short stories from one of Ireland’s great masters of the form. Brought together from a writing career spanning over three decades

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...

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,...

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...

Clotilde Graves - A Vanished Hand - HB ( 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...

Eithne Strong - Patterns - PB ( Vintage Poolbeg 1981)

A collection of short stories, Poolbeg 1981, heavy age foxing and spotting to the preliminary pages. 

Scoil Chaitriona / Lost in Transition (Large Paperback)

 This is the 2011 Book Project from Fighting Words, a creative writing program in Ireland. It contains short stories written by 23 transition year students from Scoil Chaitríona, Glasnevin, Dublin,...

Oscar Wilde Centre / Something Sensational to Read in the Train (Large Paperback)

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Elitsa Dermendzhiyska / What Dosen't Kill You - 15 Stories of Survival (Hardback)

  An explorer spends a decade preparing for an expedition to the South Pole; what happens when you live for a goal, but once it’s been accomplished, you discover it’s not enough? A successful...

Peter Haining ( Editor) / Great Irish Humorous Stories : An anthology of Laughter and Wit (Hardback)

 Originally published in 1995 and now available in paperback for the first time, an anthology of Irish short stories, bringing together humorous tales ranging from satires to ribaldry. Includes works...

Jack Harte / From Under Gogol's Nose (Large Paperback)

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Dublin Stories - The Sixth Collection (Large Paperback)

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Susan Knight / Letting Rip & Other Stories (Large Paperback)

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Colin Barrett / Homesickness (Large Paperback)

 The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Y oung Skins , winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National...

Jeni Williams / Fragments from the Dark (Large Paperback)

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Stacy Aumonier / Extremely Entertaining Short Stories: Stories from World War I and the 1920s (Large Paperback)

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Julia O'Faolain / Under the Rose - Selected Stories (Large Paperback)

 Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections.These are stories about...

Carol Shields / Dressing Up for the Carnival (Hardback)

 A new collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). In every town people are putting on their...

Bruno Vincent / Fairy Tales for Millennials: 12 Problematic Stories Retold for the Modern World (Hardback)

 Welcome to the world of Fairy Tales, Millennial style...Inside you'll find Sleeping Beauty waking up Woke, the Nanny Goats Gruff getting trolled, and three little pigs explaining that -...

Amerie / Because You Love to Hate Me - 13 Tales of Villainy

 Something wicked this way comesLeave it to the heroes to save the world.Villains just want to rule it.In this unique YA anthology, thirteen acclaimed authors team up with thirteen influential...

Bryan Havenhand & Anne MacGregor / Australian Expats: Stories from Abroad

 These stories from Australians living and working overseas will warm your heart, stir the emotions, and provide fresh insights into what it's like to come from Down-Under. From an 18-year-old au...

S.J. Rozan ( Editor) / The Dark End of the Street

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