Postcard Stories 2In 2015, suffering from a dreadful case of writers block, novelist and short story writer Jan Carson set herself the challenge of spending an entire year writing short pieces of microfiction on postcards and mailing these to friends around the world. When 2016 ended, she found it impossible to stop writing postcard stories. The stories in this collection represent the best of some five hundred postcard stories Jan has written since.

Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication

relationships and heartbreak

Ticker-tape is bold

in salvaging the poetic and the good from society’s wastelands

Shelf Life

won the Costa Prize for Poetry in 2015

which reminds us that any end is also a beginning

Loosely based on the author’s own family history

Since receiving the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1989

John Hennessy

Isabel Palmer

signed by the author