The eight short stories of this collection have a dual theme: Ireland - its people, its personality - and woman - woman betrayed, or sacrificed, innocence involuntarily lost, happiness stolen or mislaid.

A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories

Edna OBrien

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Putnam

The short story has developed into Canada's healthiest and most versatile literary genre. The twenty-eight stories in this collection have been carefully selected and introduced to provide both entertaining reading and an insight into the dominant themes and directions of Canadian literature from its beginning in the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories

Grady, Wayne

British & Irish

Spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

World's End and Other Stories

THEROUX,PAUL

Contemporary

The Iron Wolf and Other Stories

NEW HARD TO FIND SOFTCOVER COLLECTIBLE.

RICHARD ADAMS

Short Stories & Anthologies

Looking out from Moon Cottage, Susan Hill records the sights and smells, the people, gardens, animals, births, festivals and deaths that mark the changing-seasons in the small Oxfordshire community.

The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year

History

HILL, Susan

Europe

Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (Twentieth Century Classics)

Marcel, Proust

Classics

The Blue Afternoon

This book is the winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.

BOYD, William

Anything Considered

MAYLE, PETER

Strange Landscape (BBC Books)

Frayling, Christopher

Kiss Me, Judas

Will Christopher Baer

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