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Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
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...
Wednesday's Child
Author: Yiyun Li Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Any new book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' Sigrid Nunez 'One of our finest living authors' New York...
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
Author: Bridget Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES. 'Terrific - every bit as good...
First Person Singular: Stories
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationally bestselling author of Men Without Women and...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
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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...
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard: 'The literary world's best kept secret' The Times
Author: Jo Ann Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody...
Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's...
Dark Stars
Dark Stars is a tribute to horror's longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with a foreword by bestselling author Josh Malerman (...
The Thirteen Problems (Marple)
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...
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories
Author: Bill Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the...
Italian Folktales
A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is...
Delta of Venus
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...
Modern Times
Author: Cathy Sweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Jaw-droppingly good' Sinead Gleeson 'Funny, poetic, heart-chilling' Graham Norton 'Terrific' Jenny Offill 'Marvellous' Kevin Barry 'Takes your breath away' Observer 'Unlike...
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories
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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...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post
Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... 'Spy-masterful storytelling'...
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
The award-winning stories in this collection range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC [...]
WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah...
Short Stories in Dutch for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level,
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of...
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing,...
The Refugees
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...
Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories
'Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo's trademark humour' Daily Mirror'These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados' Guardian 'Fast paced and packed with the...
Dead Ends
Author: Jeffery DeaverFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 560g, 464 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024 A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln...
This Year It Will Be Different: Christmas tales
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Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set...
The Best American Short Stories 2022
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...
All Together Now
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about...
The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the cat. He walked by himself, and all places...
Games and Rituals
'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...
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
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...
Man V. Nature: From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness
Author: Diane Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE...
Eyes Guts Throat Bones: Featuring the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year 2023
Author: Moira Fowley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR 2023 'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS. THESE...
Delta of Venus
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Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she...
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
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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...
Men Without Women: FEATURING THE SHORT STORY THAT INSPIRED OSCAR-
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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...
Island
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The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world. These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces- apparently simple but actually crafted...
A Fistful of Moonlight: New Fiction from Assam
"Tender, terrifying, and heart-rending . . . A must read" GEETANJALI SHREE, author of International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of SandA Fistful of Moonlight is a collection of fourteen stories that...
Japanese Ghost Stories
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A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out...
Half Gods
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A startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the...
Metamorphosis and Other 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...
Collected Short Stories Volume 1
The first volume of collected short stories, written by a master of the form This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of...
Made for Murders: a collection of twelve Shakespearean mysteries:
A one-off collection of twelve Shakespearean-themed murder mysteries set in Elizabethan London, featuring Master Hardy Drew, Constable of the Bankside Watch, from the acclaimed author of the 7th century Irish...
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales [...]
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily...
The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister
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The Rumpus Room: And other stories from the suburbs
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The Best Australian Stories 2017
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Little Birds
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A tour de force of passion and desire from Anais Nin, the master of erotic literature -- now a major series on Sky Atlantic Combining startling lyricism with what often...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
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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...
The Jealousy Man: From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling king of
A page-turning collection of dark and twisted crime stories from the international bestselling author of the Harry Hole series. **THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR** **Shortlisted for the Crime Writers'...