This book bundle contains all nine available books published by us, with novels, short story collections, essays and a picture book for the special price of £100.

Books included: The Lammisters by Declan Burke, Number 5 by Glenn Patterson, Seed by Joanna Walsh, This Train Is For by Bernie McGill, December Stories by Ian Sansom, December Stories II by Ian Sansom, Impermanence edited by Neil Hegarty and Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Still Worlds Turning edited by Emma Warnock, and The Book Who Wanted To Be Loved by John Bittles and illustrated by Rebecca Elliott.

Set in 1920s Hollywood, The Lammisters is a sharp-witted comedy following Irish bootlegger Rusty McGrew and a crew of accidental co-conspirators as they are forced to go on the run from the LA Police Department. Fast-paced and playful, this is a timely, subversive and entertaining read. Delighting in rapid-fire dialogue, subversive genre-bending and metafictional digressions, The Lammisters is a comic novel that will likely be declared a wholly original comedy classic by anyone who has yet to read Flann O’Brien, Jane Austen, PG Wodehouse or Laurence Sterne.

Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the ’50s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys, simply trying to cope with all that life hurls their way whilst outside the front door the city shivers and sweats with the passing seasons. As fashions and tastes change according to each generation moving into Number 5, so the social fault lines of the city shift. Yet the presence of those who have come before is an ever-present memory…. Originally published in 2003, this edition of Glenn Patterson’s Number 5 is a reissue by No Alibis Press.

Seed’s narrator is on the threshold of adulthood, living in an English valley in the late 1980s when life is overshadowed by fears of nuclear contagion, AIDS and CJD. Composed in narrative threads of poetic prose, Seed explores universal themes of restriction and desire, delving deep into the narrator’s subjective consciousness and demonstrating the polyphonic discourse – fashion magazines, art, public health advice – and relationships that shape her becoming.

Bernie McGill’s award-winning stories have been widely praised for their emotional depth and lyrical language. This Train Is For won the Edge Hill Prize in 2023. This collection contains unpublished stories along with a number of previously published stories contained within award winning anthologies.

The anticipation, frustration, despair, ecstasy and uncertainty associated with the festive season are laid bare in Sansom’s collection. December Stories will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you wonder how on earth we ever survive this darkest of months. The stories take us on familiar journeys – the Christmas shopping, the Nativity play, the dinner, the drinks – with an unlikely cast of characters including ageing drug dealers, professional thieves and the OriginalBeardedSanta.Com… Not just for Christmas!

December Stories II will make you laugh, cry and question everything you thought you knew about Christmas, Yuletide, the winter solstice, etcetera. In these stories, Sansom’s vivid and varying characters peel back the many layers of the winter month, from a lonely mother to a guardian angel, a pest-controller to a ‘bar-bar-bar owning brother’ to a baker selling lockdown sourdough kits, these snippets of lives are revealing and beautifully familiar. With the cynical wit and emotional insight we’ve come to expect from Sansom, get ready to fall in love with this mind of winter, and you might begin to wonder, are December Stories becoming a tradition?

Impermanence is a publication of 12 essays by writers from or living in Northern Ireland. Written against the backdrop of Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the burning of Notre Dame, and the centenary of the partition of Ireland, the writing included here on the theme of impermanence both raises and answers a wide variety of questions and will be engaging reading for anyone with an interest in the state of Irish writing today.

Still Worlds Turning gathers original stories from twenty celebrated and emerging writers from the UK, Ireland and beyond. This is not an anthology tied to one place, nor does it claim to be representative of a generation or define the contemporary moment. The aim of this book is to present new short fiction of the highest quality to fans of the genre and new readers alike.

The Book Who Wanted To Be Loved is a heart-warming and thrilling tale about belonging, friendship and more. A celebration of the magic of bookshops, stories and books, this debut by a duo of long-time book lovers won us over. Our loveable hero lives in a bookshop. He is happy there, or at least he thinks he is. His pages are full of excitement, romance, daring deeds and adventure. But as he watches his friends being picked up by excited children, fawned over and carried away, he realises that what he wants most of all is to be loved. Taking matters into his own hands, he sets out on an epic journey of his own. Written by John Bittles and illustrated by Rebecca Elliott.