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Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and...

' Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets...

It takes a particular kind of man, writes Howard Jacobson, to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with...

Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable- and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a front-row seat for it all. When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund...

Uplifting, passionate and compelling, From the Heart is a wonderful new collection from your favourite Australians of note. 'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,'...

A selection of Classic texts that have inspired Paulo Coelho, carefully chosen and beautifully presented 'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers....

The book titled Masterpieces by the author Kahlil Gibran. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Vengeful spirits, mysterious revenants and haunted objects stalk the pages of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his inventive...

This anthology demonstrates to the full just how rewarding an art form the aphorism can be, and just how brilliantly the aphorist can illuminate the hidden truth, or lay bare...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

'A gorgeous collection: if you savour words quite as much as food, this is for you!' NIGELLA LAWSON A deliciously moreish collection of the finest pieces of writing on food....

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share...

A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative...

A special edition of an anthology of the 100 best ghost stories ever written, selected by award-winning author Louise Welsh. A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection...

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason...

As long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But nature - as we know it - is changing. Economic migration, overpopulation and - most significantly...

SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican, where a vile trade flourishes in young girls, duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe....

Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World An array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.

The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most profound bonds in life. A mother feels her daughter's first kick during pregnancy, labors to bring her daughter...

A special edition of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton. The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year A special reissue from...

Cycling? It's one of my life's constants, it feeds my need for beauty, for delight and for aimless exploring. It makes my body hum and brings me safely back to...

From Ernest Hemingway's perfect hamburger to Beatrix Potter's home-made gingerbread, The Writer's Table presents 50 of the world's best-loved authors' favourite recipes.In the style of books including A Room of...

This collection brings together general lectures and specific researches conducted among the Sama and Sama Dilaut in Tawi-Tawi; the Tala-andig Bukidnon in Mindanao; and the Ifugao, the Itneg, and the...

With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the...

'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...

A selection of prose and poetry to celebrate marriage, love and relationships - tender, funny, cynical, some well known, some unexpected. Following the wonderfully moving In Loving Memory, this anthology...

The book titled The Great Novels of the Brontes by the author Charlotte Bronte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this fascinating collection, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired...

THE COPPER BEECH By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its...

The book titled Australian Poetry Journal 2.2 Art by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed- new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on...

The book titled Vive: An Anthology by the author R. P. T. Davenport-Hines. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This anthology is intended to answer the need for a large-scale anthology of early Scottish Literature, which is felt particularly acutely in the academic field. It has been designed as...

The book titled Classic Sea Stories by the author Barry Unsworth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Signs and Wonders offers an account of some of the most original and powerful writers of our age and of earlier times. The book is intended for the general reader,...

Brian Walker's two comprehensive guides to American comics, The Comics Before 1945 and The Comics Since 1945, are combined here in one beautifully designed omnibus edition, The Comics: The Complete...

DOOMED TO DIE...Perdita, a solitary and beautiful artist, is found murdered in the home of a prominent local barrister. Finding release only in her art, she has been deeply unhappy...

In this sequel to the best-selling "The American Reader", Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems, essays, songs, and orations in English history, capturing...

This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods, from triumphant to tragic. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these...

Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the...

The action of the saga takes place at the end of the tenth century, at about the time Scandinavia was converting from worship of Norse gods to Christianity. A masterpiece...

Since its invention in 1903, the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport, travel, and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect...