Jan Carson

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2014
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Malcolm Orange Disappears

    Eleven-year-old Malcolm Orange has grown up in the backseat of an ancient Volvo station wagon, crisscrossing America with a diminishing collection of grandparents, one good-for-nothing father, an increasingly absent mother, and an unfortunately ordin...

  • Children's Children

    "Everything leaves marks, even water…"

    Two children watching their parents argue inside a greenhouse, an armoured boy and his troubled sister, a human statue who's lost the ability to move and a floating six year old tethered...

  • Postcard Stories

    Each day of 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking ...

  • The Fire Starters

    **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it' LISA MCINERNEY 'Captivating, intelligent and courageous' IRISH TIMES...

  • Postcard Stories 2

    In 2015, suffering from a dreadful case of writer's block, novelist and short story writer Jan Carson set herself the challenge of spending an entire year writing short pieces of microfiction on postcards and mailing these to friends around the w...

  • The Last Resort

  • The Raptures

  • A Little Unsteadily into Light

    New fiction by: Suad AldarraCaleb Azumah NelsonJan CarsonElaine FeeneyOona FrawleySinéad GleesonAnna Jean HughesCaleb KlacesNaomi KrügerHenrietta McKerveyPaul McVeighMary MorrissyNuala O'ConnorChris WrightTo live with dementia is to develop ex...

  • Quickly, While They Still Have Horses



  • Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories

    A surreal and darkly comic collection of stories that offer a fresh and irreverent look at life in contemporary Northern Ireland from “one of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation” (The Sunday Times, London).Humo...

  • Few and Far Between

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Carson has published 11 books.

The next book by Jan Carson, Few and Far Between, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Jan Carson, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in August 2014.

No. Jan Carson does not write books in series.
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