Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____ In each of these short, sharp stories, the long-neglected Celia Fremlin brings women's lives into focus - and an ordinary home becomes the setting for a return of the repressed.

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, enduring perfection'. With a new introduction by Colm Toibin.

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman who escaped him 15 years earlier. trapped between her dead husband and a son who rejects everything that is youthful in her, she has allowed herself to age almost beyond recognition. The man's assessment of her appearance is brutal.

Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland's brightest stars, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, in his debut collection of short stories, Sheehan disappears into characters and experiences the challenges and the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.

A collection of stories about of the trials of growing up in a community where tension, confusion and violence hold sway. Set in Northern Ireland against the background of the troubles, it captures the spirit of adolescence in difficult times. It also includes a tale of an exceptional student who stirs the resentment of her troubled teacher.

Ever stood on a train and wondered who's standing next to you?

Lady Gregory's first writings on Ireland, with the text of a pamphlet by Sir William Gregory, introduced and edited by James Pethica