Short Stories & Anthologies

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

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

Jude Collins / Only Human and Other Stories

In these stories of men under the pressures of illness, betrayal, passion and bereavement, Jude Collins captures the atmosphere of each emotional crisis as it is lived. Whether it is visiting the...

Claire Hennessy ( Editor) / Words to Tie to Bricks

Broken h

Ths Castlecomer Writers: By The Blue Gate

      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...

Michel Faber / The Apple : Crimson Petal Stories

Enjoy more Sugar. Join Clara at the rat p

Lisa St. Aubin de Teran / Southpaw Stories

Since th

Stephen Dobyns / Eating Naked

Here Ste

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

The Penguin Book of International Wom

Aleksandar Hemon / Love and Obstacles: Stories (Hardback)

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

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

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

Fireside Book 2016 (Hardback)

      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...

The Friendship Book 2019 (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...

Frederick Forsyth / The Veteran and other stories (Hardback)

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

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

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

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

With this collection of short stories, th

Etgar Keret / Fly Already (Hardback)

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

Diane Williams / The Stupefaction : Stories and a Novella (Hardback)

Praising her ingenious subversions of the conventions of narrative. The New York Times has called Diane Williams "a master spy, a double agent in the house of fiction." In this book she broadens the...

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

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

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

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

Arlene Heyman / Scary Old Sex (Large Paperback)

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

Ed Gorman ( Editor) / The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2: Second Annual Collection (Large Paperback)

It’s not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer, but The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Second Annual Collection rises to that...

David Hale Smith / Dallas Noir (Large Paperback)

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Chabon / Werewolves in Their Youth (Large Paperback)

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

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

      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...

Sean Dunne / The Cork Anthology (Large Paperback)

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

Anne Donovan / Hieroglyphics and Other Stories (Large Paperback)

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

Mary Costello / Barcelona (Large Paperback)

In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his...

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

A collection of short fiction from the Fish Short Story Prize 2008.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very...

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

      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...

Henry Murphy / An eye on the Whiplash and other stories (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

Susan Irvine / Corpus

In this illuminating collection, Susan Irvine takes the reader into the creative mind. From Concept I, in which an artist presents her son as a work of art for the Turner Prize, to a Hoxton novelist...

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

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

George Layton / The Trick and Other Stories

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

Guy de Maupassant / Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

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

Jay McInerney / How it Ended

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

Maeve Kelly - Orange Horses - PB - BRAND NEW

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

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

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

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

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

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Paris Syndrome - PB - BRAND NEW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June Caldwell - Room Little Darker - PB - AS NEW

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

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

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

Anita Nair / Where the Rain is Born: Writings About Kerala (Large Paperback)

A combination of essays, short stories, poems and extracts from published works in both English and Malayalam, this anthology affords a tantalizing glimpse into the rich and varied layers of...

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

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we...

The People's Friend Annual 2021 (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...

Rick Moody / Demonology (Large Paperback)

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

Ken Kalfus / Coup de Foudre (Hardback)

The third collection by the celebrated author of Thirst and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, Coup de Foudre is the groundbreaking work of literary invention Ken...