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Eyes Guts Throat Bones

Featuring the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year 2023
By Moïra Fowley
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Eyes Guts Throat Bones is a debut collection by Moïra Fowley that traverses unsettling and evocative territories through startling, sinister, and joy-filled stories. From vivid and visceral imagery—a face unpeeled like a belly-groan—to surreal scenes such as a ghost reading sandwich ingredients, these tales explore dark impulses and deep fears with queer, horny, and fantastical narratives. The collection blends horror and supernatural elements with poetic, gothic storytelling that captures the imagination and emotion.
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This collection is suited to readers who appreciate contemporary gothic horror, queer narratives, and poetic, visceral storytelling. Fans of imaginative, unsettling tales that blend dark impulses with fantastical elements will find this book captivating. Those intrigued by short story collections that push boundaries and engage with themes of identity, fear, and desire will enjoy this debut.

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A collection of short stories about (queer, female) bodies and the end of the world
Arresting, beautiful and ultimately consoling, Eyes Guts Throat Bones is a fierce collection of stories offering a new lens on the female body, on sex, death, love and what makes us who we are.

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Winner of the An Post Irish Book Award for Short Story of the Year 2023

'One of my favourite storytellers. These tales lingered, morphed, consumed me'

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

'Queer, horny, gory, fantastical stories that gave me serious writer envy'

Kirsty Logan

The belly-groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited knee-deep in bog water. An ancient burial mound rising and falling like a chest. The ghost of Stephen Gately reading the ingredients on a ham and cheese sandwich.

Startling, sinister and irresistibly joyful, Moïra Fowley's debut collection Eyes Guts Throat Bones unravels all of our darkest impulses and deepest fears.

'Such a witty, affecting, fresh book: I was deliciously horrified'

Jenn Ashworth

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Kirk Millwood Hargrave praises Fowley as one of my favourite storytellers, with stories that linger and consume. Kirsty Logan highlights the queer, gory, and fantastical nature that inspired serious writer envy. Jenn Ashworth finds the work witty, affecting, and deliciously horrified. Others commend Fowley’s joyous and poetic writing style, her delight in the sinister and erotic, and regard the collection as contemporary gothic short stories at their best. The Guardian and Irish Times celebrate the collection’s unique imagination and engaging qualities. Overall, the book is widely admired for its originality and poetic impact.

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ISBN: 9781399600514

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 423g

Pages: 304

Collections

Dystopian Fiction Education & Reference Fiction General Fiction Health & Wellness Horror & Supernatural LGBTQ+ Moïra Fowley Religion & Spirituality Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Moira Fowley is the author of three critically acclaimed YA novels, and a part-time witch. Her short story 'Such a pretty' face from Eyes Guts Throat Bones won the 2023 Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year. Half-French and half-Irish, she lives in Dublin with her girlfriend and her two children.

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