To Avenge a Dead GlacierWinner of the RT Francis McManus 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

The Listener \n \n'A courageous and attractive man who deserves to be remembered with affection

Desmond Hogan takes his place alongside Joyce

as rehearsals take place for a staging of Hamlet

Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess have marvelled at his talent

time is the great character

bleakly funny

and a prodigal dissenter

Ring Lardner and Nelson Algren

to find the latent fun embedded in the torment

poignancy and pitch

Yeats and Joyce)

Irish society