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The sage Confucius visits a cultured duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by the desires of his dazzling, malicious consort. A naive servant elopes with his master's daughter, only...

Featured in Barak Obama's 2026 Summer Reading List. 'Camille Bordas is an invaluable new voice' George Saunders A young woman takes stock following a burglary. A teenager becomes obsessed with...

'Superb. An incandescent, charged and propulsive work. I inhaled this collection. It's a testament to Sunny Singh's considerable talents as a writer' Irenosen Okojie Nur and Abid relearn to love...

This is a collection of short stories in Spanish, bringing to life the Philippines of the nineteenth century.

A girl marrying a lion? A beautiful woman who is really a leopard? A tree that can feed a family? Let bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith whisk you off to...

'Joyously diabolic' CAMILLA GRUDOVA 'Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar' LISA McINERNEY 'Marvellously unnerving' ERIC LaROCCA Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes...

'Kim Young-Ha is exceedingly good' New York Journal of Books 'Sublime, galvanizing' Nylon 'Compelling' Atlantic ___________________________ It's been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six?...

When an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an 'accidental', an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary...

Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow; Kazuko,...

The first-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's...

Dogs may be man's best friend, but every friendship is different. Prepare to meet Nicholas, a gregarious Airedale whose arrival in a moneyed Long Island home unleashes complete and total...

In The Quantity Theory of Morality , Will Self's pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. The disaffected, middle-class, middle-aged urbanites that populate the novel seem helpless to...

The book titled The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories by the author Rosaleen Love. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals , set among young adults in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he...

In The Quantity Theory of Morality, Will Self's pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. The disaffected, middle-class, middle-aged urbanites that populate the novel seem helpless to stop...

A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine's bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human...

Now a major movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor'Triumphant' The Times 'Stellar' Daily Mail 'Exceptionally accomplished' The Scotsman 'Exquisite' Sunday Post In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries,...

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories. It was as though I was chosen-marked out by the python's kiss for wisdom...

The book titled Best of Rumpole: Rumpole And the Younger Generation;Rumpole a by the author John Mortimer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Part of a major series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a chronology, further reading, notes, glossaries and an introduction discussing the...

Throughout his life, Henry James was drawn to the short story form for the freedom and variety it offered. The nineteen stories in this selection span James's career, from brief...

The tales in this selection of Melville's shorter works were all written after the publication of "Moby-Dick" and after "Pierre", his first commercial failure. They are products of Melville's complex...

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...

Seven strange and disturbing stories - computer-generated collaborations based on pieces by different writers, and shaken, stirred and transformed by the poet John Tranter. In a Norwegian fiord, Biggles clashes...

'Joyously diabolic' CAMILLA GRUDOVA 'Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar' LISA McINERNEY 'Marvellously unnerving' ERIC LaROCCA Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes...

'A brilliantly eclectic mix of dark, unsettling tales' Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters 'Guaranteed to give you goosebumps' Best Magazine 'Atmospheric collection of spooky stories' Observer 'A lovely...

Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent and pervasive sexism faced by women in modern-day Japan. The normalization of violence...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from child to adult,...

Fourteen mesmerising fables and the etchings they inspired draw us back to our origins in a garden of sorrow and exile, death and renewal, beauty and melancholy. John Hughes re-imagines...

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered...

An interlinked collection of fiction celebrating womenP#8217;s lives and their search for love and freedom What if the choices of women centuries apart could echo across time?Plt;brPgt; Plt;brPgt; A sister...

A dazzling, bravura collection of stories from one of Australia's most admired multi-disciplinary artists. From the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2026 Can you sever a...

Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of short stories, personally chosen by Andrea Camilleri, following Inspector Montalbano from his very first case in Vigata, in which...

The book titled Short Stories by the author Luigi Pirandello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Regarded as the Victorian era's greatest writer of ghost stories, J. Sheridan LeFanu (1814-73) gave expression to the fears and dread that often haunt sensitive individuals. This collection contains four...

Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.

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...

...there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of...

This volume includes "Daisy Miller", "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings".

B`An unquiet and mysterious country of inextinguishable desires and fears' `The Lagoon' creates and sustains an ironic tension between reality and romance thatpreoccupies all of the twelve stories in this...

Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the bestselling creator of the vogue for "Sensation fiction" in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length...

This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing...

Plt;bPgt;Pquot;A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago.Pquot; P#8212;Alfred KazinPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;MaggiePlt;/iPgt;, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own...