Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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1. Mrs Fox
By: Sarah Hall
4.15
Format: 399 pages, ebook
'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Homeland and Other Stories
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages,
Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more
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3. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
By: Thom Jones
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more
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4. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By: Flannery O'Connor , Frederick Asals
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
A Good Man Is Hard to Findis Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor her… read more
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5. My Son the Fanatic
By: Hanif Kureishi
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more
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6. The Inner Room
By: Robert Aickman
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more
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7. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
8. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
9. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
10. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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- politics
- short stories
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
11. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
By: Milan Kundera
3.70
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
12. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
13. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
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"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
14. Come Rain or Come Shine
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.65
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
15. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
16. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
17. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
18. Fairy Tales
By: Marianne Moore
3.25
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
19. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Volvo
By: Alison Espach
3.50
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story In-Depth Market Research Interviews with… read more
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- contemporary
20. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Bounty
By: Alison Espach
3.91
Format: None pages, None
In this at-once hilarious and heartbreaking series, In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead P… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
21. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
22. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
By: Alan Bennett
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
23. The Lydia Steptoe Stories
By: Djuna Barnes
3.38
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
24. The Victim
By: P.D. James
3.76
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
25. An Elegy for Easterly
By: Petina Gappah
3.51
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more
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26. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Three Types of Solitude
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.46
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
28. Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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- literature
- politics
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
29. A River in Egypt
By: David Means
3.07
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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30. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Tempur-Pedic
By: Alison Espach
3.62
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
In this at-once hilarious and heartbreaking series, In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead P… read more
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31. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
