To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan

To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane TivenanWinner of the RT Francis MacManus Short Story Prize and the John McGahern Award, Shane Tivenan is a remarkable new talent. This debut collection simmers with style, verve, tension and humour. Throughout the stories in To Avenge a Dead Glacier, Tivenan explores the lives of rural Irish outsiders. His characters are artists, sean ns singers, members of the queer community, the gifted, the neurodivergent, the environmentally concerned, people with memory

and a ribbon for keeping your place

with touch of magical bees

Well that's how Greta imagines her

hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty

'too old for starting over

hope and reality

and claim to love the city

Synge as "a comedy

For Kerri there was to be one more change

Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it maps the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and invented distances

her work has appeared in many literary magazines

Penelope Unbound reimagines a Joycean heroine for the 21st century