Pat Jourdan: 3 books

This collection of nineteen short stories covers domestic and international settings.Often the beginning sets up a fall; the kind shopkeeper becomes a non-person, the adverts turn into lies, the haunting painting comes to life. Included are prizewinning stories from the Molly Keane Award,the Michael...

Short Stories. Humour flits through, from an invasion by cows, crime in Dublin, death in a dustbin, to village legends and the everyday visions of a mad girl. All the people in these stories break rules and test the boundaries of habit, faith or even television. For good or bad, the covers are stripped away and life can never be the same again.

The house and land bequeathed to distant relatives Kitty and Simon is the background to a web of deceit that involves them with Josh, a small-time crook.As the country changes rapidly, the three characters react differently, keeping secrets from each other.The house was the home of a spinster, Miss...