Weep Not My Wanton: Selected Short Stories

Coppard, A.E.

Turnpike Books

What A Life!: Selected Short Stories

PRIESTLEY, J.B.

The Awkward Squads: and Selected Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Shan F. Bullock

Classics

Proxopera: A novel

When violent men intrude on his home by the lake Granda Binchey is forced to deliver a bomb while his family are held hostage. As Binchey travels through the countryside he reflects on the past, his family and everything that he values, all that is now threatened.

Proxopera

Benedict Kiely

Literary

As Strangers Here

McNeill, Janet

Belfast is Silver s city. The city always made you pay for your dreams. Silver Steele, the folk-hero who fired the first shot of the Troubles, escapes from a prison cell into a city where he is remembered only in graffiti and finds a world where he is a symbol of a cause he no longer belongs to. Silver discovers that he has swapped a cell for the illusion of freedom: he is now the prisoner of Galloway, one of a new generation of gunmen. Against the background of a city at war Silver and Galloway engage in a private duel to the death.Silver s City introduced a new authenticity to the literature of Northern Ireland and is one of the seminal fictional portraits of the Troubles.

Silver's City

LEITCH, MAURICE

In the autumn of 1918, invalided out of the front line, an officer is ordered to company headquarters. On his journey he stumbles into Miraucourt, a village that seems to have slipped outside history: somewhere, beyond the darkening bosom of those hills, there was a war, but it seemed incredibly remote, the wildest rumour of violence and sudden death. There are a strange group of English soldiers stationed in Miraucourt, could they be Shakespeare s Falstaff and Pistol, Bardolph and Nym In this unsettling story a soldier comes to terms with the War like a man sharing a house, year after year, with a lunatic. The Town Major of Miraucourt is Priestley s only fictional account of his experiences of WW1, years that were central to his life and writing, capturing the voice of the common soldier.

The Town Major of Miraucourt

Gone to Earth

Maurice Leitch

Contemporary

Discard the twisted past, not to try to analyse or excuse it, but simply to let it go, like a worn dress, and stepping into another to walk out a new woman. Mildred has died but her shadow still dominates the life of Laura, her younger sister. When George, her brother, returns Laura remembers her youthful failure to assert an independent life. Was it cowardice or self-sacrifice? In reclaiming her past can Laura begin to shape her present? Can Laura, at last, live without guilt? In portraying such private dramas Tea at Four O Clock is Janet McNeill s most perceptive novel of family life.

Tea at Four O'Clock

Janet McNeill

Evelyn and Berti are divorcees, addicted to tight trousers and drink, surviving on small annuities and they do not get on well together. Though well past their prime, there is an air of breeding about them but something distinctly odd too. They live in a boarding-house in Kensington dreaming of the past, real and imagined, and better days. They are not exactly tarts, but they have established a bordello for elderly gentle people in their living-room and a little makeshift prostitution helps to pay the rent. The business has its problems: their landlady is a reluctant madam, Ivy is in love with a dentist from Putney, one of their gentlemen suddenly dies. What will become of Evelyn and Berti?

The House of Dolls

Barbara Comyns

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