Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn

Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL POLITICAL FICTION BOOK PRIZE 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLOTTE AITKEN SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine's bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.

Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century.. This is a brilliant and remarkable book... Superb * Irish Times *
Scrupulous, surprising and entirely gripping. The arrival of a stunning new voice * Guardian *
An exciting new voice on the literary scene... These are tales of intergenerational trauma, dislocation and isolation. Ní Chuinn's characters are varied, de-stabilised by events beyond their control, but still here, fully alive on the page... Outstanding... This is a stunning debut * Irish Independent *
Here's a writer who knows how to swerve gracefully from the expected. Her work is instinctive, intriguing and truly exciting. I cannot wait to see what's in store for her -- Lisa McInerney
It's a long time since I've read a short story collection where I've felt such an aching tenderness for the people within its pages... These stories are rich. They have heart and weight. This is singular, controlled, dextrous writing from someone who is now one of my favourite writers -- Wendy Erskine
A phenomenal collection - these stories have a poise, a precision, an anger, a melancholy, a way of skewering things, that is entirely Ní Chuinn's own. A formidable debut by an astonishing new voice -- Lucy Caldwell
These are exceptional stories, stark yet richly textured and told in a voice that is at once plain-spoken and lyrical. Liadan Ní Chuinn is the real deal -- Louise Kennedy
An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author who refuses to look the other way. Ní Chuinn's incantatory sentences quiver like seismographs, registering the quakes and ruptures that can crack a life in two -- Thomas Morris
Liadan Ní Chuinn is a phenomenal writer, with such a striking, distinctive style. Surreal and yet vivid, wondrous and stark... It's like nothing else. Something new and startling is happening in this work. Fiction is being rejuvenated again. Anything seems possible -- Danny Denton
These are exceptional stories - and necessary reading, rendering lives, connections, violence, and trauma in ways that are utterly transformative -- Neil Hegarty
This book creates an integrated kaleidoscope - a contradiction of course - which each of these stories manages adroitly. The local dialect of History comes teeming slowly in, shocking us with its immutable presence. And here's a really important thing, I wanted to keep reading -- Evelyn Conlon

Liadan Ní Chuinn was born in the north of Ireland in 1998. Every One Still Here is their first book.

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ISBN 13	9781803513294
ISBN 10	1803513292
Title	Every One Still Here
Author	Liadan Ní Chuinn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Granta Books
Year published	2026-02-12
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