Short Stories

  • Homesickness

    Homesickness

    €12.95

    From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS – a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful and wonderfully wry new short story collection.

    ‘A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life‘ Sally Rooney

    ‘Addictive, stylish and violently funny… An outstanding collection‘ Kevin Barry

    In these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd.

    A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won’t simply lay in wake. A shooting sees an everyday call-out lead a policewoman to confront the banality of her own existence.

    A true follow-up to his electrifying debut collection, HOMESICKNESS marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.

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  • Open Up

    Open Up

    €15.95

    The new collection from a literary star – five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.

    Everything felt familiar and nostalgic. It was the joy and blood-thrill of being understood, of being ready to give himself entirely to another.

    In this outstanding suite of stories Thomas Morris seeks to find moments of grace, hope and benevolence in the churning chaos of self discovery. From the magical thinking of a ten-year-old attending his first football match, and a wincingly humane portrait of adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss in ‘Aberkariad’ — the story of a heartbroken father, brother, seahorse. Each one refracts a soulful portrait of masculinity.

    At once philosophically acute and strikingly original, the collection is bursting with a bracing emotional depth. Open Up cracks the heart and raises a smile as it expands the short story form.

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