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A captivating short story collection from the award-winning novelist, exploring love, loss and the turbulent lives of ordinary people
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A marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love.
A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son’s true nature.
A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.
The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern life and the sometimes brutal nature of humanity. Whether on city streets, long car journeys or in suburban rooms, we glimpse characters as they approach those moments of desperation – or revelation – that change or reshape fate.
Mary Costello’s short story collection, THE CHINA FACTORY (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, ACADEMY STREET (2014), won the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year Award and was named overall Irish Book of the Year in 2014. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, and the EU Prize for Literature, among others, and has been translated into several languages. Her critically acclaimed second novel, THE RIVER CAPTURE (2019), was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, The Dalkey Novel Prize and the Kerry Novel of the Year Prize.
Her new collection of short stories, BARCELONA, will be published in March 2024
Photo credit: Daniel O’Brien
Mary Costello’s short story collection, THE CHINA FACTORY (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, ACADEMY STREET (2014), won the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year Award and was named overall Irish Book of the Year in 2014. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, and the EU Prize for Literature, among others, and has been translated into several languages. Her critically acclaimed second novel, THE RIVER CAPTURE (2019), was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, The Dalkey Novel Prize and the Kerry Novel of the Year Prize.
Her new collection of short stories, BARCELONA, will be published in March 2024
Photo credit: Daniel O’Brien
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