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Author: Sue Lynn Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. Praise for the...

A beautifully packaged, illustrated collection of twenty rediscovered early short stories by award-winning and bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER - A truly unmissable, beautifully...

Author: Maeve Binchy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'There's nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat' Kate Saunders,...

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A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation;...

Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen of literary erotica. From Mathilde's lust-filled Peruvian opium den to the Hungarian baron driven insane...

Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before...

A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. Katherine Mansfield was...

Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark...

The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller - twenty-one rediscovered early short stories from the legendary global bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. From one of the bestselling science fiction and...

During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...

In THE REFUGEES , Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail 'The perfect holiday treat' Guardian This collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr...

Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi...

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A weekly dinner party Ten amateur sleuths The Tuesday Night Club murders On a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled...

'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales...

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The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' - Sebastian Barry 'Among...

A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling...

The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...

AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Exquisite . so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' GUARDIAN 'Pure magic.' COLM TOIBIN 'Lyrical,...

'Superb'THE TIMES'Joyous'THE OBSERVERThe beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet...

Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm T ibin A housewife's life is shattered by a sudden...

Author: Anna Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of...

Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics paperback This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over...

Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed . Featuring achingly human characters whose...

'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Among the finest contemporary stories...

A dizzying collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a delightfully dark collection of sixteen stories, each with a startling end. Among the unforgettable characters lurk the homicidal wife and her deadly...

Author: Paul Dalla RosaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' Guardian 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor,...

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A collection of some of Dostoyevsky's finest short stories With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds...

A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together...

A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories...

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A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works...

The essential Star Wars gift of 2017, celebrating 40 years since A New Hope 40 Years. 40 Stories. Experience Star Wars- A New Hope from a whole new point of...

Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That...

Discover Dorothy L. Sayers' inimitable Golden Age detective in this newly published collection of the complete Lord Peter Wimsey stories. Presented in chronological order, these short stories see Lord Peter...

A complete collection of surprising and sinister tales from one of Britain's most celebrated writers Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the modern age, effortlessly writing...

'One hardly knows where to begin in praising Zweig's work' - Ali Smith 'The Updike of his day... Zweig is a lucid writer, and Bell renders his prose flawlessly' -...

' Now's the time to curl up with a ghostly tale - and this collection should be your go to!' Fabulous 'This cracking collection of spooky tales is perfect for...

A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the...

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature's most beloved writers.Because it defines...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE'Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original' Pandora Sykes'A fierce and fascinating debut' Lily KingI was told of an older woman who was asked...