Short Story Books Short Story Booksby many interesting authors Click on the pictures for more information. Alentejo Blue by Monica AliThis is the story of a place. It is Mamarrosa, a small town in rural Portugal. It is where people run from or pass through. But for some it is where to go, when there is a reason to do so.Top The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende23 short stories of love and revenge, loss and discovery, love lost and love rekindled. Isabel Allende continues her brilliant writing career with these perceptive stories.Top A Literary Woman by Mary BeckettMary Beckett's return to writing after a twenty-year gap to bring up her five children. She has not lost any of her nerve, insightfulness or power of voice in that time.Top That Bad Womanby Clare BoylanClare Boylan`s third collection of short stories illuminates with pathos and perception the potential of thwarted ordinary women and the mismatched yearnings of the men who subdue them.Top Pricksongs and Descantsby Robert CooverSetting up reality against illusion, Robert Coover bewilders us with startling images and comparisons to make us shudder.Top The Dark Side by Guy de MaupassantBrilliantly depicting the supernatural terror of the incomprehensible in these thirty-one stories.Top The Deportees by Roddy DoyleEight short stories all to do with immigrants in Ireland from the master of wit.Top The Portable Virgin by Anne EnrightSeventeen stories of people on the fringe of society, sometime in it but, more often than not outside it, taking swipes.Top Rock Springs by Richard FordThis is a collection of stories which turn the ordinary into the incredible. Failings and weaknesses are delivered in such a way as to be strengths of humanity.Top Our Father's House edited by Sister Mariella Gable28 Short Stories by the likes of G K Chesterton, Sean O`Faolain, Leo Tolstoi, O Henry and others.Top Rites of Passage by Joanne GreenbergA book of short stories by the author of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"Top The Evil People by Peter HainingA collection of horror stories by the likes of H P Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and more. 13 Stories.Top Lebanon Lodge by Desmond HoganThese are stories of exiles. Exiles from the home country and exiles from the self.Top Brief Candles by Aldous HuxleyAnother collection of short stories by a fine author.Top A Life of Her Own by Maeve KellyMaeve Kelly has been one or Ireland's most prolific writers with stories regularly appearing in "New Irish Writing" along with her published poetry.Top Laughable Loves by Milan KunderaThis collection of stories deals with the erratic way people act when they are in love, want to be in love, or just feel they are deprived because they are not in love.Top Tales From Bective Bridge by Mary LavinThis collection of short stories was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Mary Lavin has since consolidated her reputation with other collections.Top Complete Stories 2by D H LawrenceIn the judgement of many, Lawrence`s expansive genius found its happiest expression within disciplined limits, for in his short stories and short novels his powers are never weakened by the repetitions which mar some of his longer worksTop Tallystick and Other Stories by Bryan MacMahonBryan McMahon is a master chronicler of the Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. In these 17 stories he captivates just what rural life in Ireland was all about.Top Collected Short Stories of Patrick O'BrianFull of brilliant descriptive writing, these short stories are the best of O'Brien's and possibly the best you will read anywhere.Top Complete Stories of Flannery O'ConnorThe complete collection of stories, some only available in this volume from an enthralling author whose life was short but still managed to fit so much into it.Top Melancholy Baby by Julia O'FaolainA collection of stories gathered from Julia O`Faolain`s previous highly successful collections.Top Wave and Other Stories by Liam O' FlahertyShort stories by one of Ireland's best writers.Top Destinations by Sheila O'Flanagan19 stories where the characters have only one thing in common. They use the DART rail system. Everything else is different.Top Who Breaks Up the Old Moons to Make New Stars by Lucile RedmondThis collection of short stories bears Lucile Redmond`s understanding of the little things that most would miss. But they are the little things that make all the difference.Top Nine Stories by J D SalingerNine Stories was Salinger's first short story collection and his first book since 'Catcher' burst on to the literary sceneTop Short Circuits by Melanie SilgardoTwelve female authors introduced in this book and dealing with subjects such as the family, sexuality and sainthood, the fine line between sanity and madness,Top The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories by William Trevor12 stories from a master storyteller who can encompass all humanity in just a few well-chosen words.Top Work Suspended by Evelyn WaughEleven stories in which Basil Seal appears in two stories.Top War Children by Gerard WhelanStories set in the time of the War of Independence bringing to life one of the most dramatic periods of Irish History.Top Prime Evil by Various AuthorsA terrifying collection by the best in the field.Top