Services and Programmes

Short Story Collections

	Click on the covers to go to the library catalogue.
	The Ballroom of Romance William Trevor (Bodley Head, 1972)
	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker, 2006)
	The Demon Lover: and other stories  Elizabeth Bowen (Cape, 1972)
	A Friend of Kafka Isaac Bachevis Singer (Cape, 1972)
	The Little Galloway Girls Mary Leland (Hamish Hamilton, 1987)
	No Paradiso William Wall (Brandon, 2006)
	A Sportsman’s Sketches Turgenev (J.M. Dent, 1972)
	Sugar and other stories A.S. Byatt (Chatto& Windus, 1987)
	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers  Yiyun Li (Fourth Estate, 2006)
	Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury, 2008)
	Walk the Blue Fields Claire Keegan (Faber, 2007)
	Day Dreams and other stories Frank O’Connor (Pan, 1973)
	Collected stories Vol. 2  Sean O’Faolain (Constable, 1981)

Those thirteen books constitute an essential library and ‘style-book’ for anyone interested in the pleasure of the story form as well as the technical possibilities within the story. Yiyun Li and Claire Keegan are very young writers but their two books are simply astonishing. Corkery and Turgenev are the international grandfathers of the art form.
Eight of the best individual short stories

•  Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835
• Deux Amis by Guy de Maupassant (1882)
• The lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov (1899)
• Araby by James Joyce (1914)
• Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing by Evelyn Waugh (1937)
• They’re Not Your Husband by Raymond Carver (1973)
• Nightingale by Tobias Wolff (1997)
• Them Old Cowboy Songs by Annie Proulx (2008)