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The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of...

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...

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.

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

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...

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,...

Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and...

'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Among the finest contemporary stories...

The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas...

'Her Number On It' is a compelling portrait of kleptomania; the 'Unsuspected Talent' of a dissatisfied wife has dangerous consequences; and 'Don't Tell Cissie' upends our expectations of a ghost...

The 100th title in the phenomenally successful and much-loved Penguin Clothbound Classics series This selection of Poe's stories, poetry and other writing demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which...

Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

Read 'Table of Everything' and take a uniquely funny, crooked, questioning path through life. 'You know, sometimes, things happen that promise to make life breezy and blue, but turn out...

Author: A.C. Wise Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The award-winning Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane bring together the masters of fantasy, science-fiction and horror, to spin stories inspired by...

"Cat O' Nine Tales" is the sixth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle, creator of Molesworth. These twelve yarns...

The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders , Wasteland , Here We Are and Mothering Sunday In the aftermath of the Second World...

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD In my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had started...

A new selection of Dylan Thomas's greatest stories, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition For a boy growing up in an ordinary town in Wales, summer is 'always radiant,...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short...

Celebrating Hay's 30th birthday next year, this is an anthology of short stories from the best 39 Latin American authors under 40. With authors from 15 different countries, this really...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail 'The perfect holiday treat' Guardian This collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr...

From the Battle of Bull Run to current-day Iraq, war has fascinated some of the finest writers of the past two centuries, and now over a hundred of their vivid...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The holiday season is here, and for most of us, our minds are on carefree days in the sunshine. But for every...

From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis...

STREAMING ON NETFLIX FROM JANUARY 2025: Stephen King's 'The Life of Chuck' is a 'phenomenal' ( USA Today ) tale of life and legacy - and now a feature film...

At the intersection of tradition and modernity, East and West, childhood and adulthood, Hanan al-Shaykh's characters find their way through the shifting and ambiguous power relationships that shape the landscape...

A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings . An opera singer loses her voice. Sex releases memories. A lake monster captures a town's attention. Two young men...

From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish...

A collection of diamond-sharp stories from an award-winning writer, for fans of Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry and Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties . What happens when...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as...

A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some...

A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot...

A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories...

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 Jorge Luis Borges remains one 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. Akutagawa was one of the towering...

A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous...

A richly varied anthology of Spanish short stories, curated by celebrated translator Margaret Jull Costa This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the...

A beautiful clothbound edition featuring some of the famous detective's most famous cases. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and...

A compelling collection of new Kafka translations in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition A brilliant new translation of Kafka's best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth This...

First paperback publication of Italo Calvino's phenomenally funny account of the universe as a cosmic joke Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from...

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his...