Few and Far Between

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection, Children''s Children (2016), and two flash fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award and her third novel, The Raptures (2022) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has won the Harper''s Bazaar short-story competition and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year, and the Sean O Faolain Short Story Prize. She specializes in running arts projects and events with older people, especially those living with dementia.>

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Product details

• Authors: Jan Carson, Carson Jan
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.04.2026
• EAN: 9781529936759
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3675-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Alternative History, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Noir, Speculative fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Alternative history fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / General, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor