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Jana Wendt, the much-loved Gold Logie superstar of TV journalism for nearly three decades, feature writer and role model for young career women, has now turned her hand to fiction....

Lawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this...

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us...

Graham Greene's best short stories, selected and introduced by the novelist and uber-fan, Yiyun Li. Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here the some...

Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the...

The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Cavalry series and his...

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London...

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of...

The Collected Stories - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living...

The award-winning translators of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery whose earthy and singular stories, have never before been properly translated into English Leskov's...

Mesmerising short stories by this neglected 20th century master Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the...

HERE BE DRAGONS... A unique collection of stories by the greatest fantasy writers working today. Sparking myths and legends from Asia to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons are the...

Set mostly in the American South, at the crossroads of a world both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men...

In his latest collection, master storyteller John Edgar Wideman offers a collection of complex, charged pieces. His stories weave together historical fact, imagined conversation, philosophical kernels and deeply personal vignettes....

Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the 2024 Hope Prize, with judges including Dame Quentin Bryce, Dr Tony Birch and Julia Gillard. ' Tomorrow There Will Be Sun is more...

The tail piece Stories I have tried to write accompanies 30 classic tales of their genre set against convincing backgrounds to afflict chilling terror on the reader.

'Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that's what he did. It's a given. It's the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is:...

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, Evangelista's Fan 'goes on resonating in your memory after you have shut the book' Independent 'A master class in the art of...

The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the "Bloomsbury Classics". Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher,...

The dozen short stories in John Updike's new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero...

For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating...

Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a...

The twenty-six always compelling, often astonishing, stories in this collection are published in chronological order, so readers can appreciate the Nobel prize-winning writer's progress from early experimentation, to full-blown magical...

A dozen stories- a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A. L. Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of...

Seventeen stories selected from the sixth annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. A truly national competition, contributors this year come from Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Queenslander...

'Heart-felt stories of life and love' Woman & Home from the No. 1 bestselling author 'Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire . . . thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal...

The book titled Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century Women Writers by the author Susan Koppleman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

This exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie's short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It's an...

The sea - and man's relationship with it - have inspired many of the world's most pre-eminent writers. And why not? Dramatic, powerful, benign, soothing, foreboding, exhilarating, unforgiving - the...

This collection of classic tales of the supernatural and the uncanny will satisfy anyone's desire for chills. These are stories that surprise - even the second or third time around....

The book titled Collected Short Stories: Vol 1 by the author W. Somerset Maugham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Tales of the City by the author Armistead Maupin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams. But here in Ancelstierre the charter is...

Wish You Were Dead is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Peter James. Roy Grace and his family have left Sussex behind for a week's holiday in France....

The book titled The Way We Lived Then. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For the fans and enthusiasts of James Lee Burke and his Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux, comes a collection of twelve original stories set in and around American Deep South and...

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the...

Has any other filmmaker become so famous that he has also become an adjective? A collection of brand new stories directly inspired by the master of suspense. The Sunday Times...

In New American Stories , the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable...

Set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley, a collection of linked stories that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence, centered on the short life and long...

A superb collection of short stories from Reginald Hill, the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels and 'the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' (Independent)...

Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts,...