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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.

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Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century... This is a brilliant and remarkable book... Superb * Irish Times * The collection of the year was undoubtedly Every One Still Here from the young Northern Irish writer Liadan Ní Chuinn... These stories are fiercely political and confronting, but also hum with the mysteries of life. They mark the arrival of a phenomenal new talent -- 'Best Fiction of 2025' * Guardian * Astonishing... In precise, direct prose, the half a dozen stories anatomise a post-Good Friday agreement generation caught between the forward momentum of their lives and the backward pull of the past...Liadan Ní Chuinn is a writer to watch -- 'Books of the Year' * Observer * But the book of the year is Liadan Ni Chuinn's Every One Still Here: short stories of uncanny depth and astonishing richness about the Troubles, their aftermath, love, death, the ordinariness of days - everything -- 'Books of the Year' * Irish Times * The next big thing in books?... Astonishing... These six stories don't need any biographical scaffolding - they stand strong on their own. The writing here is stark, unflinching, bald. It feels genuinely new. I get the feeling that Ní Chuinn would hate the term ""voice of a generation"", but it may be foisted on them nonetheless - and with good reason * Sunday Times * Scrupulous, surprising and entirely gripping. The arrival of a stunning new voice * Guardian * Ireland's short story writers are in a class of their own, and every year new, exciting voices come to the fore. One of the most remarkable in 2025 is the mysterious Liadan Ní Chuinn... These are stories that have more than something to say - they resonate with an urgency for the reader to face history head-on * The Times * Reading Ní Chuinn's work, one thing quickly becomes clear: this is a phenomenal debut... This is heart-stopping writing, and I hope for more to come from the mysterious Ní Chuinn * Observer * An original, compassionate exploration of grief, faith, forgiveness, heritage and the foundations of shared humanity... Ní Chuinn's brilliance as a writer lies partly in their unexpected angles of approach... Dark or deadpan humour sits alongside insights of dazzling precision and poignancy * Times Literary Supplement * Utterly brilliant... A remarkable debut... Ní Chuinn heads into the heart of the characters' lives... in prose that is hypnotic and melodic * Daily Mail * For a publisher to agree to publish an anonymous author, as so many did Ferrante, and publishers in Ireland, the UK and the US have Ní Chuinn, that writer has to be extraordinary. And Ní Chuinn is -- Rhiannon Lucy Cosslet * 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 Phenomenally good... Bristles with pain, compassion and controlled fury... Brilliant * Marie Claire * Beautiful...This is literary fiction at its best, and I would recommend Every One Still Here to anyone who wants to read something deeply human * Buzz Magazine * An intense collection, with tightly written stories ... and Faulknerian levels of generational trauma, passed down unendingly... An expansive collection * Mslexia *

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

These stories about Ireland and recent history face up to the truth of lives in a way that very little new writing I've read does. In doing this they change and recharge the potential of the short story form. Two have already become some of my favourite stories ever Astonishing... The writing here is stark, unflinching, bald. It feels genuinely new. I get the feeling that Ní Chuinn would hate the term ""voice of a generation"", but it may be foisted on them nonetheless - and with good reason * Sunday Times * This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland's bloody past... Ní Chuinn's stories are unpredictable and memorable... Extraordinary -- Chris Power * Guardian * Reading Ní Chuinn's work, one thing quickly becomes clear: this is a phenomenal debut... Ní Chuinn's prose is austere and precise... This is heart-stopping writing, and I hope for more to come from the mysterious Ní Chuinn * Observer * There's excitement building around this young writer from the north of Ireland... Ranging from the generational trauma of the Troubles to medical students' first dissection, the stories are scrupulous, surprising and entirely gripping. The arrival of a stunning new voice * Guardian * Utterly brilliant... A remarkable debut... Ni Chuinn heads into the heart of the characters' lives and sets about a delicate delineation of their most devastating emotions, delivered with tenderness and understanding in prose that is hypnotic and melodic * Daily Mail * For a publisher to agree to publish an anonymous author...that writer has to be extraordinary. And Ní Chuinn is -- Rhiannon Lucy Cosslet * Guardian * Phenomenally good... Bristles with pain, compassion and controlled fury... Brilliant * Marie Claire * Immediately asks to be considered among the island's signal 21st-century literary achievements -- Kevin Power * Irish Times * 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 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 * A phenomenal book ... eligible for the highest laurels * Irish Times * A perfect commuter read * The Sunday Times Magazine * I think [Every One Still Here] will end up being the book I've loved most this year. The first and last stories are relentless An expansive collection of stories set in a present haunted by the past, where history is still happening * Mslexia * There can be no question that Liadan is a major artist * Irish Post * An original, compassionate exploration of grief, faith, forgiveness, heritage and the foundations of shared humanity... Never sentimental, the six tales in Everyone Still Here repeatedly catch readers unawares... Dark or deadpan humour sits alongside insights of dazzling precision and poignancy * TLS * Loss, anger, grief and disappointment run through this powerful collection several of whose stories are linked by the legacy of the Troubles... Tough reading, at times, this is a striking collection, thoroughly deserving of the praise heaped upon it Uncanny and haunting... Ní Chuinn's stories, while brief, are deep and complex explorations of human motivation, psyche and purpose... An earnest and profound search for hope while being weighed down with the difficulties of the past * Buzz Magazine * A brilliant and remarkable book... immediately asks to be considered among the island's signal 21st-century literary achievements * Irish Times * A bravura piece of work... Six haunting and deeply moving stories which examine - among other things - grief, memory, and the bonds of both family and community... The author fuses the personal and the political in their unflinching exploration of intergenerational trauma * The Crack * Courageous, unflinching... Ní Chuinn is masterful in showing how the political is devastatingly personal... A difficult, essential and unforgettable read * Culture Matters * Every One Still Here has a raw power entirely its own * Irish Times * [A] standout * Irish Times * The collection of the year... From the generational trauma of the Troubles to profound questions of memory and identity and the quirks of contemporary society, these stories are fiercely political and confronting, but also hum with the mysteries of life. They mark the arrival of a phenomenal new talent * Guardian * The book of the year is Liadan Ni Chuinn's Every One Still Here... Short stories of uncanny depth and astonishing richness about the Troubles, their aftermath, love, death, the ordinariness of days - everything * Irish Times * Astonishing skill... In precise, direct prose, the half a dozen stories anatomise a post-Good Friday agreement generation caught between the forward momentum of their lives and the backward pull of the past. Whoever they are, Liadan Ní Chuinn is a writer to watch * Observer * Strong-voiced... Ní Chuinn's stories tackle large subjects in subtle ways * Bookseller * These are stories that have more than something to say - they resonate with an urgency for the reader to face history head-on * The Times * An astonishingly good debut... Darkly funny, heartbreaking and wildly original * Sunday Independent * Breathtaking. Rooted in the historical inheritances of the Northern Irish Troubles, the stories ask the short story to open, literally and formally, to meet the realities of people's lives

Breathtaking. Rooted in the historical inheritances of the Northern Irish Troubles, the stories ask the short story to open, literally and formally, to meet the realities of people's lives Astonishing... The writing here is stark, unflinching, bald. It feels genuinely new. I get the feeling that Ní Chuinn would hate the term ""voice of a generation"", but it may be foisted on them nonetheless - and with good reason * Sunday Times * This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland's bloody past... Ní Chuinn's stories are unpredictable and memorable... Extraordinary -- Chris Power * Guardian * Reading Ní Chuinn's work, one thing quickly becomes clear: this is a phenomenal debut... Ní Chuinn's prose is austere and precise... This is heart-stopping writing, and I hope for more to come from the mysterious Ní Chuinn * Observer * There's excitement building around this young writer from the north of Ireland... Ranging from the generational trauma of the Troubles to medical students' first dissection, the stories are scrupulous, surprising and entirely gripping. The arrival of a stunning new voice * Guardian * Utterly brilliant... A remarkable debut... Ni Chuinn heads into the heart of the characters' lives and sets about a delicate delineation of their most devastating emotions, delivered with tenderness and understanding in prose that is hypnotic and melodic * Daily Mail * For a publisher to agree to publish an anonymous author...that writer has to be extraordinary. And Ní Chuinn is -- Rhiannon Lucy Cosslet * Guardian * Phenomenally good... Bristles with pain, compassion and controlled fury... Brilliant * Marie Claire * Immediately asks to be considered among the island's signal 21st-century literary achievements -- Kevin Power * Irish Times * 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 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 * A phenomenal book ... eligible for the highest laurels * Irish Times * A perfect commuter read * The Sunday Times Magazine * I think [Every One Still Here] will end up being the book I've loved most this year. The first and last stories are relentless An expansive collection of stories set in a present haunted by the past, where history is still happening * Mslexia * There can be no question that Liadan is a major artist * Irish Post * An original, compassionate exploration of grief, faith, forgiveness, heritage and the foundations of shared humanity... Never sentimental, the six tales in Everyone Still Here repeatedly catch readers unawares... Dark or deadpan humour sits alongside insights of dazzling precision and poignancy * TLS * Loss, anger, grief and disappointment run through this powerful collection several of whose stories are linked by the legacy of the Troubles... Tough reading, at times, this is a striking collection, thoroughly deserving of the praise heaped upon it Uncanny and haunting... Ní Chuinn's stories, while brief, are deep and complex explorations of human motivation, psyche and purpose... An earnest and profound search for hope while being weighed down with the difficulties of the past * Buzz Magazine * A brilliant and remarkable book... immediately asks to be considered among the island's signal 21st-century literary achievements * Irish Times * A bravura piece of work... Six haunting and deeply moving stories which examine - among other things - grief, memory, and the bonds of both family and community... The author fuses the personal and the political in their unflinching exploration of intergenerational trauma * The Crack * Courageous, unflinching... Ní Chuinn is masterful in showing how the political is devastatingly personal... A difficult, essential and unforgettable read * Culture Matters * Every One Still Here has a raw power entirely its own * Irish Times * [A] standout * Irish Times * The collection of the year... From the generational trauma of the Troubles to profound questions of memory and identity and the quirks of contemporary society, these stories are fiercely political and confronting, but also hum with the mysteries of life. They mark the arrival of a phenomenal new talent * Guardian * The book of the year is Liadan Ni Chuinn's Every One Still Here... Short stories of uncanny depth and astonishing richness about the Troubles, their aftermath, love, death, the ordinariness of days - everything * Irish Times * Astonishing skill... In precise, direct prose, the half a dozen stories anatomise a post-Good Friday agreement generation caught between the forward momentum of their lives and the backward pull of the past. Whoever they are, Liadan Ní Chuinn is a writer to watch * Observer * Strong-voiced... Ní Chuinn's stories tackle large subjects in subtle ways * Bookseller * These are stories that have more than something to say - they resonate with an urgency for the reader to face history head-on * The Times * An astonishingly good debut... Darkly funny, heartbreaking and wildly original * Sunday Independent *

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

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