New Irish Fiction

In this, her third short story collection, Geraldine Mills extends her thematic range to excavate new and shifting landscapes. Not afraid to tackle taboos, Hellkite occupies a space all of its own, where gender expectations are realigned to explore woman's inhumanity to man.

Another Alice is the story of a poisoned childhood, a contamination that threatens to spread through generations. She is an ordinary woman, a photographer. She has arranged her life like one of her photographs: careful, ordered, stark. But under the surface, things are not nearly as smooth as Alice likes to think they are.

On the eve of August 5th 1958, in Louisburgh, County Mayo, Mary Stenson told her only son that their farm was soon to be lost. If they could not raise £3,000 before 23rd of December, their link with the land would be broken forever.