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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. 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MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. 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MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. 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MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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Coffey / Sunburnt Country (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x37670E Gill James / Transformations (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42418E Greg Bottoms / Swallowing the Past:: Scenes from the Postmodern South (Large Paperback) Swallowing the Past is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of a hate crime. A parable about a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42282E Roslyn Fuller / Dublin: Ten Journeys One Destination (Large Paperback) Irish Writers Exchange 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 refrain from... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... 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MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. 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MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. 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It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x37993E Rosemarie Jarski / Wrinklies Wit & Wisdom : Humorous quotes about getting on a bit (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x37798E Tom Grimes / The Workshop (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x37744E Robin Cooper / Return Of The Timewaster Letters (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x37716E B.R. Coffey / Sunburnt Country (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x37670E Gill James / Transformations (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42418E Greg Bottoms / Swallowing the Past:: Scenes from the Postmodern South (Large Paperback) Swallowing the Past is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of a hate crime. A parable about a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42282E Roslyn Fuller / Dublin: Ten Journeys One Destination (Large Paperback) Irish Writers Exchange 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 refrain from... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: x42229E Howard Goldblatt / Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China (Large Paperback) Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x37716E B.R. Coffey / Sunburnt Country (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x37670E Gill James / Transformations (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42418E Greg Bottoms / Swallowing the Past:: Scenes from the Postmodern South (Large Paperback) Swallowing the Past is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of a hate crime. A parable about a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42282E Roslyn Fuller / Dublin: Ten Journeys One Destination (Large Paperback) Irish Writers Exchange 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 refrain from... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: x42229E Howard Goldblatt / Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China (Large Paperback) Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. 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It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... 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Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x42418E Greg Bottoms / Swallowing the Past:: Scenes from the Postmodern South (Large Paperback) Swallowing the Past is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of a hate crime. A parable about a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42282E Roslyn Fuller / Dublin: Ten Journeys One Destination (Large Paperback) Irish Writers Exchange 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 refrain from... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: x42229E Howard Goldblatt / Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China (Large Paperback) Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x42282E Roslyn Fuller / Dublin: Ten Journeys One Destination (Large Paperback) Irish Writers Exchange 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 refrain from... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: x42229E Howard Goldblatt / Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China (Large Paperback) Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Fiction in Translation | sku: x42229E Howard Goldblatt / Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China (Large Paperback) Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x42226E Neil Smith / Bang Crunch: Stories (Large Paperback) 'Bang Crunch' is a collection of stories that announce a major writer in the tradition of Yann Martel and Barbara Gowdy. Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x42014E Mark Maiden / Different By Design (Large Paperback) DIFFERENT BY DESIGN is a collection of short stories written specifically to aid in fund-raising efforts for the Saplings School for Autistic Children in Rathfarnham, Dublin. ALL proceeds from this book will go directly to the school. Packed with story... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: x41909E Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback) The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq (where Martin served for oneof his six... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x41893E Ink Tank Creative Writing Group / Let me tell you something: An Irish collection of reflections, short stories and poetry (Large Paperback) 'Let me tell you something' is the second collection of work from the Ink Tank creative writing group. Most of these stories and poems were penned during the coronavirus pandemic; some will reflect the issues around living through lockdowns, most will... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x41607E The Moat Writers / The Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Large Paperback) The Voices is a collection of work written since the formation of The Moat Writers in October 2019. We have selected our personal favourites; short stories to intrigue and grip you, poems and verses to make you laugh and cry, prose pieces to reflect and... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x41481E Tobias Hill / Skin (Large Paperback) Skin was Tobias Hill's stunning first collection of stories. The long title story, 'Skin', explores the Japanese underworld - an expansive tale of tattoos and acid and murder. In 'No One Comes Back from the Sea' a young father can't eradicate the... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x41341E Sara Paretsky / A Woman's Eye: New Stories by the Best Women Crime Writers (Hardback) Sara Paretsky has a degree in finance and a PhD in history, and has worked as a conference manager and a promotion manager for a large insurance company. She is now a full-time writer with seven Warshawski novels to her credit, including TOXIC SHOCK,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x57120H Richard Ford / Sorry For Your Trouble (Hardback) “Displaced” returns us to a young man’s Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to console the narrator’s sorrow after his father’s death. “Driving... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x41027E Sarah Pinsker / Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea (Hardback) The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory,... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x40600E Ellen Gilchrist / The Courts of Love : Stories (Hardback) This celebrated collection opens with "Nora Jane and Company", a series of nine stories featuring one of the most popular characters in the Gilchrist galaxy: a former teenage runaway who once robbed a bar in New Orleans dressed as a nun. Now living... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47649E Richard Ford / The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Hardback) In 1992, Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century—an “exemplary choice” in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x40508E Sheena Greco , Ann Donovan / New Windmills: Scottish Short Stories (Hardback) 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 refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... 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MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... 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Quick view Joan Kahn ( Editor) - The Edge of the Chair : A Collection HB ( 1968) An anthology containing the following ( a mix of mystery / tales of teh uncanny and true crime) Hardcover, published by Arlington Books, 1968 ( 1967 in the USA, although this is uncredited) Light edgewear only, binding tight CONTENTS - The... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x55044H Sean Love / From the Republic of Conscience (Hardback) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Sean Love who was executive... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Walter de la Mare - The Picnic and Other Stories - HB 1941 A collection of short stories ( most previously published in magazines and short story collections) , publisher by Faber UK, 1941. Solid in faded grey cloth covers, titles in green to front and spine. MSRP: Now: £7.60 Add to Cart Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Stinging Fly Phyllis Boumans, Elke D'Hoker & Declan Meade ( Editors) - The Writer's Torch - Reading Stories from The Bell - PB - BRAND NEW Eighteen short stories from the pages of Dublin’s iconic literary magazine The Bell (1940 – 1954) with responses by eighteen of our foremost contemporary Irish writers. ‘Why Blame The Seagulls?’ by Peadar... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 88744E Tim Etchells / Endland Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88667E James Blish, J.A. Lawrence / Star Trek: The Classic Episodes, Volume 1 In the twenty-five years since it premiered on network television, bringing in the planets of the Federation and the voyages of the Starship Enterprise into America's living rooms and the national consciousness, Star Trek has become a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 87890E Ethan Canin / The Palace Thief A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 87826E Iona Carroll / Other People's Lives : Short Stories This collection of twenty-four stories capture the lives and character of ordinary people through a snapshot of time. Some stories are poignant, others humorous, some surprising. There are seven stories in the collection about the lovable Irish... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 87672E Mandla Langa / The Naked Song and Other Stories The stories here are snapshots along South Africa's via negativa, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile. They are fragmentary, anecdotal and idiosyncratic; animated by Langa's fascination with his characters and their... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Sinéad Gleeson ( Editor) - The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories- HB - 2020 The #1 Irish Times bestsellerAn anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations.There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a... MSRP: £30.38 Now: £13.40 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X40063E Gish Jen / Who's Irish?: Stories (Hardback) In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39822E Richard Ford / Women With Men: Three Stories (Hardback) A collection of three novellas, a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x39707E Cynthia Ozick / The Puttermesser Papers (Hardback) Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view