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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Each of the overlapping stories in Tim Winton's The Turning centres on a transformation; together they form the bestselling...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...

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...

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...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring...

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...

Author: Hannu Rajaniemi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF Hannu Rajaniemi exploded onto...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 832 Whether you're young or old, once you've stepped into the brilliant, troubling world of Roald Dahl, you'll never be...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Colum McCann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the country's recent history with devastating...

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...

Author: James Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Through childhood hopefulness, teenage delinquency, faded first love and middle-aged disillusionment, James Clarke's extraordinary novel in stories takes us into the...

Author: W. Somerset Maugham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The first volume of collected short stories, written by a master of the form This classic collection of...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early...

Author: Amitava Kumar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's...

Author: Penelope Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked...

Author: Samanta Schweblin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Fever Dream comes a hotly anticipated new collection of eerie short stories. Playful and unsettling,...

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling...

Author: Fiona McFarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize "THERE IS IN THESE TALES A RECURRENT 'FEELING OF QUEASY ANTICIPATION, ' AS ONE...

Author: April Ayers Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 One of The Irish Times Best debuts of 2017 One of New York Magazine's 45 New Books to Read This...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...

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Author: Paul Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling, far-reaching...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic...

Author: Emily Fridlund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'...

Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...

Author: Ivan Monalisa Ojeda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Can't get enough of Pose? Then Las Biuty Queens will be your new fave read. Exploring the lives of the...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . . How underhand could you be to get what...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own...

Author: Agustina Bazterrica Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On hearing her neighbour's body plummet on to her patio, a woman's comfortable life seems to split open. A cab driver's...

Author: Mandy Beaumont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of...

Author: H.P. Lovecraft Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones...

Author: Brian Aldiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story...

Author: Sara Paretsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 International bestselling author Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo...

Author: Susan Vreeland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose...

Author: Kathryn Nicolai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In Nothing Much Happens Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of...

Author: Katherine Heiny Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the...