Newly commissioned short stories that explore and represent the lives of those living with dementia, unique in its diversity, depth and breadth of the dementia experience.
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This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.
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This début collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects. -
This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects. -
Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pull at his subject matter: family love, the making of art, Catholicism, the Troubles and, latterly, ageing. This book is a collection of 12 extraordinary new stories that show the emotional range of a master. -
In this collection of six stories and novella, the author's vision of America's near future is as black and funny as you can get. His plots are marvellously bizarre and his dialogue is superb. -
Throughout these tales, Hoult reveals the contemporary realities of class and disability, office politics and women's lives, with a sharp gaze and a gentle touch. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, exact and unflinching, Cocktail Bar is a modern Irish classic. -
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the 20th century. Including 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge', this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume. -
Gopal Maurya's wife has left him, preferring to seek enlightenment in an ashram in India. But when his neighbour comes to borrow his lawnmower, Gopal thinks he might find something similar right here in New Jersey. Armed with Cosmopolitan magazine as his bible, he embarks on a quest for suburban romance. -
This is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'. -
Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up by nuns, she had lost her faith, found another, fought for it and been imprisoned. This was inexact but serviceable.On the twelfth day of her hunger strike, Maggy is unable to tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just take risks for the sake of a friend? Julia O'Faolain paints a portrait of young Irish girls and their unseverable connection, showing solidarity in places politics cannot reach. -
In Dubliners, completed when Joyce was only 25, the author produced a definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life. -
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. -
This startling and irresistibly witty collection from Moïra Fowley is an exploration of all our darkest impulses and deepest fears. -
This title is part of a landmark series of gem-like individual volumes presenting masters of the form at work in a range of genres and styles. Bringing together past, present, and future in their ninetieth year, 'Faber Stories' is a celebratory compendium of collectable work. -
Written in 1946, in what Beckett later called a frenzy of writing, these four novellas are among the first substantial works resulting from Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. -
This is a collection of short stories set in Ireland and among the Irish in the United States. The stories are about the rootless, both old and new, and tell of characters who are always in search of a way back home or a way to leave it. -
In this collection of classic fairy tales, Philip Pullman chooses his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling. He brings the heart of each timeless tale to the fore, following with a brief commentary on the story's background and history. -
Happiness and Other Stories is perhaps the most cherished of all the acclaimed collections by Mary Lavin, who was not just one of Ireland's major writers, but ranked among the greatest short-story writers of the twentieth century in the English language. -
This title is part of a landmark series of gem-like individual volumes presenting masters of the form at work in a range of genres and styles. Bringing together past, present, and future in their ninetieth year, 'Faber Stories' is a celebratory compendium of collectable work. -
A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. -
In this dark, glittering collection of short stories, Deirdre Sullivan explores the trauma and power that reside in women's bodies. A teenage girl tries to fit in at a party held in a haunted house, with unexpected and disastrous consequences. A mother and daughter run a thriving online business selling antique dolls, while their customers get more than they bargained for. And after a stillbirth, a young woman discovers that there is something bizarre and wondrous growing inside of her. With empathy and invention, Sullivan effortlessly blends genres in stories that are by turns strange and exquisite. Already established as an award-winning writer for children and young adults, 'I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay' marks her arrival as a captivating new voice in literary fiction. -
'Intimacies' exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality; from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from 'home'. -
A collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees