This mini bundle gives readers a small introduction to what we’ve published over the last few years, at a special price.

Books included: This Train is For by Bernie McGill, December Stories by Ian Sansom, and Impermanence edited by Neil Hegarty and Nora Hickey M’Sichili.

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 This collection contains unpublished stories along with a number of previously published stories contained within award winning anthologies.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!

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. It contains essays by Jan Carson, Susannah Dickey, Carlo Gébler, Neil Hegarty, Nandi Jola, Gail McConnell, Brian McGilloway, Susan McKay, Henrietta McKervey, Maria McManus, Paul McVeigh and Kerri ní Dochartaigh. Commissioned by the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and published by No Alibis Press with the support of ACNI, BCNI, Culture Ireland and DFA.