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'An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects' Daily Telegraph In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live,...

A startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the...

Take The Return Journey and travel a magical road with Maeve Binchy. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother, Freda, about who and what she's...

A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an...

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or...

The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, `The Steppe', with its masterly account of a spectacular thunderstorm, signifies his maturation as a writer of...

Helen Dunmore writes poetry, short stories and novels both for children and adults and she has received widespread acclaim for work. All ten books of her adult fiction have been...

The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble- in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect...

The best of Brien Cole's work is the story of Morning Parrot Trees. And it is superb. The concreteness and fantasy of Fisher's search for the parrot flower are perfectly...

Illuminates the Russian writer's thoughts on madness, bureaucracy, and illusion in these five tales.

A collection of Pushkin's chilling short stories The Queen of Spades, one of his most popular and chilling short stories, tells of an inveterate card player who develops a dangerous...

Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island , Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of...

Travel back in time to Australia's most glorious era - the era of squatters, gold rushes, shearers, Cobb & Co. coaches, bushrangers and, of course, swagmen. The swagmen of this...

A host of Australia's best genre fictioneers - and one bold Kiwi - were invited to submit stories to the first anthology of adventure stories commissioned by Clan Destine Press....

Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories-some of which have appeared in The...

Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday...

These twenty-five new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision...

An electrifying short story collection from 'one of America's most important novelists' ( New York Times ); the twice Orange Prize-shortlisted author of the bestselling The History of Love A...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'These three novellas in a single volume show...

In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and...

The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With The Sandman, Gaiman created the most sophisticated, intelligent and...

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an...

A collection of short fiction including stories set in the same worlds as the author's novels "Fairyland", "Pasquale's Angel" and "Eternal Light".

The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of O'Brian's short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant O'Brian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate...

In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange - and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical,...

A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate and a band of girls rot from the outside in. These...

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...

Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island. It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote...

InThe Best Australian Stories2015, Amanda Lohrey, winner of the Patrick White Award and author of the acclaimed novelA Short History of Richard Kline, curates twenty pieces of exceptional short fiction....

An enterprising young man on the verge of losing his home in Addis Ababa pursues an improbable opportunity to turn his life around. A woman visiting her country of origin...

Black Adam brings old world justice to Kahndaq as Hawkman seizes control of the JSA and brings them to the turbulent Middle East for an epic battle! Black Adam brings...

`An Indiscretion in the Life of a Heiress', is one of ten stories - three collaborative, all uncollected - that are brought together in this volume. `Indiscretion', derived from Hardy's...

The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The...

These ten stories offer a stunning vision of contemporary American suburbia, littered with tension, heartbreak and revelations. Andrew Porter's stories take readers across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to...

New editor is Robert Drewe, author of Grace , The Shark Net , Our Sunshine and Walking Ella . Past contributors include- J.M. Coetzee, Janette Turner Hospital, Tara June Winch,...

The mystery of the light in Vermeer's famous painting illuminates a writer's love for his mother; a travelling lingerie salesman is helped miraculously by a rock musician as he waits...

'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that...

The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always...