Prose
NOVELS
Bardwell’s novels were published by the Irish Writer’s Co-operative, Brandon, Attic Press, Blackstaff and Liberties Press, with translations into German by Diana Verlag, and Parthas Verlag. See titles below.
MEMOIR
A Restless Life recalls Bardwell’s extraordinary life in her crafted prose and is published by Liberties Press, 2008.
SHORT STORIES
Her stories were published in periodicals such as the Ulster Tatler, Force 10 and Cyphers, and in a collection, Different Kinds of Love, from Attic Press in 1981. This was reissued in 2012 by Dedalus Press and also appeared in German as Zeit Vertreibt Liebe, in an Ullstein Taschenbuch edition.
podcast on Different Kinds of Love
NEWS
A new collection of prose is now available from Doire Press, to mark her centenary year: The Heart and The Arrow . The book contains seven posthumously discovered stories and a novella.
The novella, All Those Men is a dystopian narrative that centres on the lives of women in a world where civilisation hangs by a thread.
Girl on a Bicycle, 2009 and 2014, Liberties Press, also 1977 Co-op Books
That London Winter, 1981, Irish Writers’ Co-op Books
The House, 2006, Blackstaff, also 1981, Brandon
There We Have Been, 1989, Attic Press
Mother to a Stranger, 2002, Blackstaff Press
Short Stories, 2012, Dedalus Press, Also 1987, attic Press
A Restless Life, 2008, Liberties Press
2004, Beck edition
2007, Parthas Verlag
New publication 2022
The Heart and the Arrow
from Doire Press
“The prose is incisive and the stories brilliantly crafted. She fearlessly gets to the heart of the matter with uncommon speed.”
—Estelle Birdy in the Irish Independent November 2022
A new collection of seven stories plus a novella. New stories that she did not publish in book form in her lifetime. A great place to start reading Bardwell’s prose.
archival material
Irish Writers' Co-operative Poster
page from The Heart and the Arrow