Sean O Brien: 23 books

Collier South is one of the last independent beltrunners mining the frontier between Mars and the Jovian colonies. The mining rush is over, Ceres colony is long established, and humanity has been mining asteroids for fifty years. What started as a handful of small prospectors seeking fame and fortune...

Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of Sean O’Brien’s fiction debut. Idlers and idolisers alike can be referenced, in body or in text, among the crepuscular alcoves and dim...

Sean O’Brien is widely acknowledged as one of the most gifted English poets now writing, and as a leading poet-critic. Cousin Coat collects the best of O’Brien’s work to date; long-time O’Brien aficionados will be grateful to have so much of the early work available again, while recent converts...

November is Sean O’Brien’s first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: lost sleep, connections,...

In these twelve short stories by science fiction writer Sean O’Brien, you’ll find a character trying to find the meaning of his own life through an alien artifact called the Godbox; a brainy high school geek with an unusual football ability; an interstellar war veteran looking for redemption years...

While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O’Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is sounded more openly than ever before. With...

Europa, Sean O’Brien’s ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shared heritage and an age-old state of being, a place where our common dreams, visions and nightmares recur and mutate. In placing our present crises in...

With an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we were children And thought we were lovers. The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration...

Sheltering from an air raid in an empty underground station, a young woman encounters a strangely out-of-place vessel passing along the platform... A librarian cataloguing the manuscripts of a recently deceased horror writer notices one particular box, relating to his most mystical work, has...

This collection, drawing on almost forty years of verse, represents the definitive guide to one of the leading English poets working today. It will allow the reader the chance to survey both the remarkable variety and the consistent quality of O’Brien’s work, as well as the enduring strength of...

SARA MAITLAND on NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE SEAN O'BRIEN on EDGAR ALLAN POE JANE ROGERS on FYODOR DOSTOYEYSKY BRIAN ALDISS on THOMAS HARDY MARTIN EDWARDS on ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE on ANTON CHEKHOV ADAM ROBERTS on RUDYARD KIPLING STEPHEN BAXTER on H.G. WELLS STUART EVERS on SHERWOOD ANDERSON ALI...

Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central...

In this new edition, Sean O'Brien introduces a selection of stories from the master of the American Gothic short story, as well as providing a critical analysis of the form and style of Poe's work. Featuring: 'Ms. Found In A Bottle', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Man of the Crowd The Oval...

'Fascinating reading.' - Financial Times 'An exhilarating read.' - The Short Review Toby Litt's Bio-Punk story 'Call it ''The Bug'' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title' short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Featuring: AUTHORS:...