Leland Bardwell is one of the senior figures of Irish writing: a novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer whose fiction has appeared on bestseller lists abroad and is accorded classic status at home. Bardwell's keen-eyed, unflinching short stories, were originally published in 1987, and deal with a range of topics of considerable relevance to readers in our own difficult times. As fresh and relevant as when they first appeared, these stories,...