Published on 1st October 2026 by Dryad Books
NECTARINES SHORT STORIES AND FLASH FICTION
Eve Bonham launches another book – her fifth, and her second collection of stories, a form of fiction that she relishes and loves writing.
A sparkling array of short stories and flash fiction, written with compassion and wit, encompass broken promises, calf love, hospital humour, poisonings, fractious families, and love affairs.
Surprising characters inhabit these tales: a virgin and her lawyer, a loan shark, a wife who steals, a boy who dreams of rats, Dublin landladies, amateur robbers, a poet’s daughter and a frustrated cook. Curious activities include building an igloo, star gazing, wife/tree hugging, news reporting aboard ship, sewing in prison, spying by telescope, and creating a soap opera. In startling, versatile micro-fiction, encounter a bull that cried, a snub on a train, an alluring temptation, a dark theatre, a severed ear and, in the title story, a small but perfect nectarine.
A short story collection is like a bowl of fruit: varied, self-contained, and meant to be consumed in a single sitting. Just as you wouldn’t eat a whole watermelon and a bunch of grapes at once, you savour one distinct flavour at a time before deciding what to try next.
Classifications: General Adult & Family Fiction Literary Fiction Christian Fiction
ISBN 978-0-9559315-3-6 Paperback RRP: £11.99 Available from Bookshops & Amazon from 1st October 2026
ISBN 978-0-9559315-4-3 E-book RRP: £5.99 From Amazon in mid October