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When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare...

The words murder and romance seldom appear together. If given a choice, most of us would prefer them to be as far apart as possible. But there is no denying...

This is a collection of short stories set in the goldfields of central Victoria in the 1870s. They are pioneering tales of Aboriginal Yurgama Jacobs and his dingo pet Marakorpa....

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be...

A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her...

In rich, ironic and revaeling prose Ginu Kamani depicts the lives of Indian women ranging accross class, age and attitude. JUNGLEE GIRL is a compelling and stimulating collection by a...

By The Award-Winning Author Of "The Last Crossing "And "The Englishman's Boy" Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death...

A collection of von Kleist's haunting, unsettling stories In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this...

'Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo's trademark humour' Daily Mirror 'These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados' Guardian 'Fast paced and packed with...

Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck, and two...

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...

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 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...

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....

This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance. From...

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...

A collection of stories that celebrate the humour, darkness and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception 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...

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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...

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...

A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and...

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...

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...

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...

PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash returns again toAppalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in unforgettablestories that span the Civil...

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 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...

'The most original genius that America has produced' Alfred, Lord Tennyson VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine...

A thrilling anthology of short stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy and Uprooted, spanning each of her realms and including a sneak peak into the...

With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating...

Memorable short stories by Cate Kennedy, Tim Winton, David Malouf and many more of Australia's best contemporary writers. Some of Australia's finest writers - and some who should be better...

The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal 'Poignant and impressionistic . . . highly readable and...

Along with making music, the art of storytelling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual...