Fergal O'Byrne Official Website

Thank the DJs

Following on from the launch of his first collection of short stories, Careful What You Wish For (Watermark, 2022) and his debut novel Trolley Ride in Manhattan (Mentor, 2000). BoD is delighted to announce the publication of Thank the DJs, Fergal O’Byrne’s latest collection of short stories.

This collection is an album of short stories; each tale a love affair with a particular song, an homage to a DJ and a dedication to someone that influenced and guided the author through his formative years.

Depending on your location we recommend the following book stores:

In Denmark: Bog&Ide, Gucca.dk, Saxo.com and Williamdam.dk
Rest of EU: BoD (e-book also available here)
UK: Blackwell's
US/Canada: Barnes&Noble

Careful What You Wish For ...

A new book of short stories is a collection of Fergal's recent award winning writing. The book contains seven recent short stories that are heavily influenced by Fergal’s passion for science and cosmology. Three of the stories have been awarded in the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award and others have garnered accolades including the Alpine Fellowship Award, he John McGahern Award and The Hennessy New Writing Awards.
The book is available to download on Amazon as an ebook - and on Lulu's platform as a hard copy.

Trolley Ride in Manhattan

Released in 2000 this was O'Byrne's first novel, based on the short story A Subway Incident - a monthly winner of the Hennessy New Writing Awards. The novel tells the story of a young Irish man injured in a drug-related gun incident who is transported to hospital in an ambulance. The trolley he is lying on flies out the door of the ambulance when it takes a corner too quickly and thus begins his epic and surreal odyssey around the streets of Manhattan.
A darkly comedic stream of consciousness escapade.