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Sad Song Vincent Banville
John Blaine is a private detective who works Dublin’s mean streets. He is tough, talented and smart, but always unlucky in love. His wife has just left him, and he’s sad and sorry. Now, hired to bring home … More
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Mrs Whippy Cecelia Ahern
A woman in trouble turns to ice cream, and just might find love in its pursuit. Emelda is 46 years old. Her husband, Charlie, has just left her for a 23-year-old dancer. Her five difficult sons worship their father and blame… More
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Stray Dog Gareth O'Callaghan
Can a tired marriage be saved by man?s best friend? Jo and John are slowly drifting apart. Their marriage has been stalled for years, but they carry on, pretending to be together. Then the unthinkable happens: John is … More
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Pipe Dreams Anne Schulman
Meany Freeney is a bachelor farmer with simple needs and a healthy bank balance. His approach to life mirrors by his drinking habits – why buy a pint of Guinness when a half-pint, sipped slowly, gives twice the value?… More
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A Secret Map of Ireland Rosita Boland
When the award-winning Irish Times’ journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had–in common with all Irish children–amap of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational… More
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It All Adds Up Margaret Neylon
Each of has a very personal set of numbers that influence our lives. Based on our date of birth, our age and our name, theses special numbers are guides, blue-prints to our life path. The study of these numbers is numerology.… More
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The Freak Chronicles Jennifer Spiegel
The short stories in this collection explore, both implicitly and explicitly, the notion of freakiness. They worry over eccentricity, alienation, normalcy, and intimacy. What is it that makes one a freak, makes one… More
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A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, and Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag Josh Russell
Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag’s early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels—Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska—the savages who captivate… More
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THE BACKSLIDER Seán McGrady
The setting is Belfast in the 1970s. In a city in which any storefront might unexpectedly explode, Marius Moonston, age sixteen, is out shopping. It’s Saturday, and the streets are filled with danger and excitement—especially… More
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My Date with Neanderthal Woman David Galef
David Galef’s My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the winner of Dzanc Books’ first Short Story Collection Competition, responds to these and other questions: thirty-three visions of lives that—let’s hope—are far from… More
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Shopping for a Better Country Josip Novakovich
Shopping for a Better Country is a collection of narrative essays on family, history, and travel from Croatian-American Josip Novakovich, a Whiting Writers’ Award winner and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.… More
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A Tendency to Be Gone Pamela Ryder
Product Description"Ryder’s is the rare and wonderful prose that engages all five of the senses."—Whiting Award winner Lydia Peele, author of Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Pamela Ryder’s… More
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All Over Roy Kesey
The debut story collection from Kesey includes nineteen stories previously published in literary journals such as Ninth Letter, McSweeney’s, and The Kenyon Review. The story “Wait” was included in the Best American… More
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Asunder Robert Lopez
The unforgettable stories in Robert Lopez’s Asunder vary in length and style, but all of them devastate, all constantly cross the boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are uncertain of … More
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All the Beautiful Sinners Stephen Graham Jones
Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the town’s sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect—an American Indian—holds chilling connections to the disappearance… More
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The Court of a Thousand Suns (Sten #3) Allan Cole et al.
Having fought his way from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor’s bodyguard, the most dangerous weapons Sten has encountered in Prime World are the lies of Court politicians. When… More












