A player on a 1980s high school American football team recounts one disastrous season – on and off the field – with the team’s every moment charted by their emphatic, omnipotent, highly volatile coach. This energetic, evocative story is bittersweet, nostalgic, and incredibly funny.

In Berkeley, a homeless teenager stumbles across a college party where everyone has cast off their inhibitions – starting with their clothes. Intrigued by its unusualness, he finds himself drawn to an older girl, despite the hostility of her companions. This is an original, tense, funny and poignant story about the opportunities and risks that present themselves when the status quo shifts.

An unhappily married woman is having an affair with her English tenant in rural Ireland. When a social event brings them all together for the day, the ensuing tension sees not only the affair come close to being uncovered, but the truth of a darker, long-held secret – and the reason for the woman’s loathing of her husband. Set in the aftermath of The Troubles, this is a tightly-woven story of betrayal and secrets and their impact on family lives.

A childless couple takes in a mysterious, neglected young boy who emerges from the woods and into their garden one afternoon. Although they bring him step-by-step into their home and into their lives, they find that they know no more about him. This is a story both tender and disquieting about responsibility, boundaries and love.

In Dublin, a woman recalls her experiences of dating multiple unsuitable men in the lead-up to finally meeting a man she feels it is worth committing to. However, this relationship only comes with a weighty emotional cost. 'Love Many' is about a search for intimacy and understanding, and is a touching, emotive, truly modern love story.

A young woman in the Bahamas learns about love, desire and secrets as she develops a relationship with a newcomer to her small community. This is a vivid, skilfully woven story about what we learn as we mature and what informs the choices we make.