Flight is the fascinating story of four travellers whose journeys intersect one winter in Dublin. Set in Ireland in 2004 as a referendum on citizenship approaches, this impressive novel explores the themes of travel and trouble, and has been hailed by the Guardian as a "new breed of novel."

Flight

Literature & Fiction

Frawley, Oona

Literary

Tramp Press

One hundred years after the publication of James Joyce’s classic collection of short stories, Dubliners 100 is an innovative and timely conversation about the collection. Editor Thomas Morris invited contemporary writers to write "cover versions" of their favorite Joyce classics as a tribute to the original Dubliners collection.

Dubliners 100

The first in Tramp Press's much anticipated Recovered Voices series, this is a charming and beautifully written Victorian novel from a brilliant but forgotten early female novelist. It follows the story of young Glen Westley, who is faced with a new life after the death of her mother.

A Struggle for Fame (Recovered Voices)

Riddell, Charlotte

Genre Fiction

With stories from some of the best writers working today, A Kind of Compass brings us to places and situations we could never otherwise experience. Funny, unnerving, vivid and real, these stories evoke the nature of distance, exploring the many ways in which it is possible to feel far from home.

A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance

United States

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

A debut novel already praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride) this captivating story follows — over the course of four seasons — a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts — a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life — find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road. Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither has already garnered wild support in its native Ireland, where the Irish Times pointed to Baume’s “astonishing power with language” and praised it as “a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite.” It is also a moving depiction of how — over the four seasons echoed in the title — a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us not only in our understanding of the world, but also of ourselves.

Baume, Sara

A gothic, bone-chilling Irish ghost story first published in 1941 and now brought back into print. The title benefits from an introduction by well-known academic Professor Luke Gibbons and Martin Scorsese and various critics, including William K. Everson and Leonard Maltin, regard The Uninvited as one of the best ghost stories ever filmed.

The Uninvited

MacArdle, Dorothy

British & Irish

Published in the centenary of the Easter Rising, Orange Horses provides a rare and remarkable insight into areas of Irish society which are often maligned and ignored. These 20 stories are beautiful, sad and funny.

Orange Horses (Trampress Recovered Voices)

Kelly, Maeve

Short Stories & Anthologies

a line made by walking

Sara Baume

On her family’s austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her – of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at the door; and why her father was unlucky not to die in the war. The family crosses from Finland to Sweden, from a familiar language to a strange one, from one unfriendly home to another. The Girl, mute but watchful, weaves a picture of her violent father, resilient mother and strangely resourceful brothers. In this darkly funny debut, with illustrations throughout, folk tales and traditional custom clash with economic reality, from the rural Finland to urban Stockholm.

The Iron Age

Kajermo, Arja

When Virgilia Wilde begins to suffer from strange visions she visits her local doctor, reporting somberly that her imagination has been playing tricks. What transpires is far more alarming; Virgilia seems to have developed the power of precognition, and with this terrible ability comes fears for the safety of her beloved daughter... The follow-up to the critically acclaimed haunted-house novel The Uninvited is one of the most sharply observed accounts we have of middle-class post-war Dublin.

The Unforeseen (Recovered Voices, 4)

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