This book bundle gathers together all of our essay and short story collections for the special price of just £50!

Books included: 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, and Still Worlds Turning edited by Emma Warnock.

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 This collection contains unpublished stories along with a number of previously published stories contained within award winning anthologies.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. Commissioned by the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and published by No Alibis Press with the support of ACNI, BCNI, Culture Ireland and DFA.

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.