Autore: Jaki McCarrick

Borders haunt this debut fiction collection from prizewinning writer Jaki Mc Carrick: the Irish border where she lives, the boundaries of the natural world, and the darker edge of human nature, even …

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Escaping the Irish famine in 1850 five young women seek passage on a ship to Australia. For many of the ‘orphan girls’ on board, the voyage offers a fresh start. But some girls find they cannot escap …

Based on the story of a real-life crime that happened at the tail-end of the longest recession in Ireland’s history, Leopoldville is a play about a gang of young men who rob a pub in a border town. D …

Set in the border ‘bandit’ country of County Monaghan, The Mushroom Pickers tells the story of Laura, an accomplished actor who leaves her career in London when her life unexpectedly changes course. …

In the aftermath of The Troubles, two brothers near the border to the North, harbour a guilty secret… “Look, there’s no rules of the road out there. Not any more. So how do ya live? Ya use the only …

A revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, storie …

The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. These stories first appea …