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Melanie Cheng's vivid and absorbing panorama of Australian culture was the winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Award...

In the title story a disillusioned businessman on impulse decides to call on an office colleague he has always slightly despised, and finds himself having to re-evaluate his own relationships...

One book. Five thrillers. No holds barred. including- DEAD MAN'S GIFT MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven-year-old son has been abducted - and the nanny brutally murdered....

'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should...

With humour, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's...

The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence,...

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential...

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside...

Michael Redhill's first short-story collection explores the highways and byways of human relationships, marital and extramarital, parental and sibling. Both affected and unsettling, darker than Redhill's first novel, these stories...

November 2004 is the 40th anniversary of Maclaren-Ross's premature death, hastened by drug and alcohol abuse. A significant number of features and articles are planned in the national press throughout...

Originally published in 1968, What's It Like Out? is the first of Penelope Gilliatt's celebrated short-story collections. In these blithe, glitteringly laconic tales we meet Fred and Arthur, comedians entwined...

All of Aiden Mathews's stories take their frail and passionately wrong-headed narrators over the edge into the obscene and the sacrilegous. They circle dangerously around the secret places where incest,...

Contains 21 stories - all variations on the Icarus themes, they're about melting wax, sudden unscheduled descents and the natural inclanation of our gods, parents and guardians to look the...

In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past...

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...

Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...

Unique Features: Edited and introduced by Ursula Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for...

Guided by the genius of Susie Bright, 'the avatar of American erotica' (New York Times), the Best American Erotica series has sold an astonishing 450,000 copies. Now the latest edition...

Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the pastfifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with awealth of nuance and...

The Best American Erotica 1996 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. Mc Gahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short...

Take your partners please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from...

The book titled Watching Me, Watching You by the author Fay Weldon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This superb new collection of stories confirms Tilghman's genius in that edgy territory of family, marriage breakdown, widowhood, parents, children, inheritance and escape, all against a backdrop of richly evoked...

Did you know that Byron, upon discovering that dogs were not allowed in rooms at Cambridge, brought a pet bear instead? That Sir Isaac Newton reputedly invented the cat flap?...

Around the world in 22 murders... LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER AWARD '22 hugely engaging and eloquent crime stories from around the world ... the plots sizzle...

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938. Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon--an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the...

The book titled Cowboys, Indians and Commuters by the author Jay McInerney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Description of a Struggle: Picador Book of Contemporary East European by the author Michael March. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Ten years after the success of the 1983 Best of Young British Novelists issue, four judges -- A.S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and Granta editor Bill Buford --...

By the author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror: first of a major multi-book launch into English for a huge Japanese fiction brand THE UNFORGETTABLE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER BY THE...

Through Nadine Gordimer's magnificently crafted stories a reader embarks on journeys across cultures, from the war in Mozambique to the beaches of the South of France, from the affluent suburbs...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Often described as the father of...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. On sea, on land, at the...

The book titled In a Father's Place by the author Christopher Tilghman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working Class Stories of the by the author H. Gustav Klaus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The acclaimed BARCELONA PLATES revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way. Now, in his new collection THE DOG CATCHER,...

James Finn Garner's hilarious adaptations of classic bedtime stories satirise our modern sensitivity to all sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist and phallocentrist bias and reflect our more enlightened...

Philby and Frank are first-year medical students on a quest to become cool. Trouble is, Frank's already there and Philby doesn't even know what to order at the pub. This...

For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume. 'Carol Shields' stories have given me happiness, not...

This work features stories including: "Death of an Old Man", "An African story", "A Piece of Cake", "Madame Rosette", "Katina", "Yesterday was Beautiful", "They Shall not Grow", "Beware of the...

A collection of Patrick Gale's most brilliant pieces of short fiction. The subjects are wide-ranging and various - curious childhood loyalties, long-hidden memories, newly discovered joys, startling secrets, dislocated relationships,...

"Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work -...

The book titled Further Fables for Our Time by the author James Thurber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.