Today in Bookish and Literary History, October 8

2019 The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan (Ireland)

Claire Keegan’s mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victor Deegan, with his ‘three teenagers, the milking and the mortgage’.

2019 Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall (UK)

Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and existential quest, the stories in Sarah Hall’s third collection travel far afield in location and ambition—from Turkish forest and coastline to the rain-drenched villages of Cumbria.

2024 Sad Grownups: Short Stories by Amy Stuber

For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world.

  • Winner of the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

2025 Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper

At just 90 pages, Ensorcelled is a one-sitting read that will suck you in, make you think, and leave you changed.

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