Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite...

One of the most popular authors in recent times, Maeve Binchy first drew reader's and critics' attention with Light a Penny Cnadle, then with Echoes. This newest bestseller tells about changes that take place in a charming Irish village when a stranger turns a local manor house into a luxury hotel. Firefly Summer will be followed by Delacorte's hardcover, Silver Wedding, in September.

An anthology by a late staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. Two stories, The View from the Kitchen and The Stone Hot-Water Bottle, deal with Leona Harkey, a parvenu trying to ingratiate herself in society, while another story is on the thoughts of a Labrador retriever in an old-moneyed milieu.

"On opening an evil-smelling trunk labelled òld books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants. Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins merchant, but when suspicion falls on a former lay sister from her convent, the Reverend Mother decides to help find the real killer."--Publisher's description.

Story of a thoroughbred but impoverished Anglo-Irish family that refuses to understand the realities of life beyond the gates at the end of their drive, particularly the nature of money and of sex.

"The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense of humour. But one autumn morning, Sister Gertrude is found dead inside a small wooden shed, just beside the river. Surely a young nun could not die from alcohol poisoning? But when the Reverend Mother delves more deeply into Sister Gertrude's background, she finds some puzzling anomalies....