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PRAISE FOR THE LAST FIVE MINUTES OF A STORM: "Filled with moment after moment of wonder, drama, intrigue, and grace. The stories are perfectly chosen; realism and fantasy, the quotidian and the singular clashing and complementing and ultimately comprising the most satisfying of experiences... works of extraordinary beauty." – Donal Ryan, award-winning, twice Booker-longlisted author of Strange Flowers. "A stunning collection of writings, full of beauty, power and skill, and the new truths we need to be reading." – Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of 2019 Irish Novel of the Year Shadowplay. In this collection, 15 writers explore what it means to be at the climatic point of a crisis, with salvation just in sight – but not quite there yet! Expect stories of defiance, grief, connection, magic and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With stories by Chris Bogle, Mei Davis, Aoife Esmonde, Kasandra Ferguson, Helena Pantsis, Sandy Parsons, Jamie Perrault, Daniel Ray, Samuel Skuse, Courtney Smyth, Tessa Swackhammer, Liz Ulin, Brigitte de Valk, Holden Wertheimer-Meier and Liza Wieland.