Published by The Lilliput Press in March 2021 Midfield Dynamo is the first collection of short stories from award-winning author Adrian Duncan. These modern stories written over a decade, have previously been published in The Moth, The Stinging Fly, Dublin Review and elsewhere, half completely new..

Praise for Midfield Dynamo

“Remarkable … these 12 haunting, curious tales have settings as diverse as coastal Ireland, post-Wall Berlin and Abu Dhabi”

Alexander Wells ― ExBerliner

“Adrian Duncan’s new collection consolidates his reputation as one of the most captivating and distinctive voices in contemporary Irish writing”

Michael Cronin , The Irish Times

“The overarching connection between these austerely executed but richly imagined narratives has to do with the before and after of aspiration and disappointment, hope versus despair”

Tom Treacy, Totally Dublin

“Recalling James Joyce’s Dubliners, and the punctuation of tough, ordinary, quotidian lives with occasional bursts of illumination and epiphany, Midfield Dynamo is beautiful in its sparse, humorous prose, born of a gruff, masculine tradition of Irish literature”

Eva Wall, Extra.ie

“Exhilarating … These stories seek and discover scenes of beauty – in the process permitting notes of lyricism to earn their place – in overlooked and distinctly unglamorous contexts, to deeply moving effect … in Midfield Dynamo, as in Duncan’s novels, the structures of life must not only be built but endlessly renewed and maintained – and this process, this world of construction, is the point of it all, and the reward”

Neil Hegarty, Dublin Review of Books

“There's a real artist at work here”
Pat Carty, Hot Press

“A very impressive book of short stories which shine a light on the strangeness and absurdities of the modern world”
Matthew Geden, Irish Examiner

“These understated and immensely compassionate stories make a gem of a collection”
Anne Cunningham, Meath Chronicle

“Lyrical, bizarre and mystifying … will remind readers of Claire Keegan’s short stories, mixed with a little splash of Kevin Barry’s style”
Litvox

“One of the most interesting Irish writers at work today”
Niamh Donnelly, Irish Independent