Eamonn's favourite short story collections 2022Like this list

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• Five Tuesdays in Winter

  Stories

  King, Lily

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  The first Short Story collection from the author of Writers and Lovers (A favorite novel of mine). You get the sense Lily King has been writing and tweaking these stories for years as each story has the depth of a fully formed novel. If you love…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

  Stories

  Enriquez, Mariana, 1973-

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  Mariana Enriquez is a true master of the short story form. A brilliant twisted South American treat.

• The Trouble With Happiness

  and Other Stories

  Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1917-1976

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  I first encountered Tove Ditlevsen with a reissue of her autobiographical novels, The Copenhagen trilogy (also well worth reading). Translated into English for the first time these stories of domestic life are simmering with rage and frustration. I…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sunstroke and Other Stories

  Hadley, Tessa, 1956-

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  My expectations for this collection were sky high, and it totally delivered! These stories often involve memories and how we interpret them later in life, they are sad, funny and completely timeless. There's more depth in these stories than most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Lover

  Stories

  Taddeo, Lisa

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  If you've read Lisa Taddeo's wildly successful other books you can safely assume what to expect here. Lot's of stories about desire and changing power dynamics. Inappropriate relationships and power hungry men. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection.

• Life Ceremony

  Stories

  Murata, Sayaka, 1979-

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  These are some very weird stories. After reading her novel Convenience Store Woman I did not predict the rabbit hole these stories would take me down.

• Homesickness

  Stories

  Barrett, Colin, 1982-

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  These are brilliant short stories about characters living on the margins in rural Ireland. Barrett's previous collection Young Skins won every literary prize going and this collection is even better.

• That Old Country Music

  Barry, Kevin, 1969-

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  Kevin Barry is the king of contemporary Irish writers and an absolute genius short story writer.

• Blank Pages

  and Other Stories

  MacLaverty, Bernard, 1942-

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  The third and final Irish author on this list. Bernard MacLaverty has been publishing short stories and novels for over 40 years now and this latest collection is as good as anything in his past. He catches the small beats of everyday life so…Read moreRead more of this annotation