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The Victim: Faber Stories
Author: P. D. James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk....
Ayiti
Author: Roxane Gay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married...
Reality, and Other Stories
Author: John Lanchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Selfie-sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white,...
The Things They Carried
Author: Tim O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The...
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This stylish edition of collected short fiction, celebrating the work of one of Australia's most loved authors, is now...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
Dark Tales
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories...
After the Quake
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake Tales of upheaval and...
Little Birds
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...
The (Other) You: Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of...
Homesick For Another World
Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen 'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short...
The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love
Author: Carys Bray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a...
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...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...
Dogs: Stories and Poems
Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...
Snowdrift and Other Stories (includes three new recently discovered short stories)
Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyer's earliest short stories, published together in book...
The Complete Short Fiction
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
Home Remedies
Author: Xuan Juliana Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a...
Murder Takes a Holiday: Classic Crime Stories for Summer
Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 For most of us, a summer holiday is an opportunity to escape from it all: to lounge on warm sands...
Runaway by Alice Munro
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Newly re-jacketed for a new generation, the bestselling collection by the greatest short story writer in the world and...
That Old Country Music
Author: Kevin Barry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island,...
Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
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Author: Deb Olin Unferth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 "Deb Olin Unferth's stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice--each an intense little thought-system going...
Italian Folktales
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories
Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
Like a House on Fire
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...
Gothic Tales
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local...
Island
Author: Alistair MacLeod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world. These slow, beautiful stories - resolute...
Zero-Sum
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes...
Dance of the Happy Shades
Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl- whether you're young or old, you'll never want to leave. Roald...
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
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Author: Wells Tower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off...
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...
The Collected Short Stories
Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...
Jump and Other Stories
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Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Jump and Other Stories collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of...
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla
Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped...
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wide range of human experience in contemporary America...
The Lucky Ones
Author: Julianne Pachico Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Lucky Ones is Julianne Pachico's haunting debut collection of stories. Set in lush, heady Colombia - and also...
Fen: Stories
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Author: Daisy Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A singular debut that "marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent" (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson's Fen, set in the...
That Old Country Music
Author: Kevin Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer...
Grand Union
Author: Zadie Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In...