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'Guglani is the real deal' Michael Faber 'Profound . . . Poetic . . . Humane' Gabriel Weston 'Shows rare skill . . . Power and fear and morality' Sarah...
Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour
Who's Loving You is a collection of short stories celebrating desire and love in all its guises, written by and reflecting the experiences of women of colour in an authentic...
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
This work is a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever. Subjects range from an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard...
Fool for Love: The Selected Short Stories
In one new volume , an irresistible collect ion of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories, previously unpublished in book form. 'What informs Moggach's...
Honey and The Fires: Ancient stories retold for our times
Some of the most powerful stories in history are found in the Bible. the very names of their characters - including David, Daniel, Esther, Samson, Joshua and Jonah - evoke...
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Roald Dahl turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies: turtles, fingersmiths, "The Mildenhall, Treasure", and even a man who can see with his...
Collected Short Stories
This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brien is the author of Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark...
Blue Movie
This satire of Hollywood features King B, an Oscar-winning director who's seen (and filmed) everything, Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the tastes of the American...
Love, Obsession, Secrets & Lies
The path to true love doesn't always run smooth - sometimes you have to brave dangerous passions to get there. This collection of stories explores the darker side of love...
A Day in the Life
This charity anthology of powerful, entertaining and original short stories includes some of the finest female contemporary writers such as Kate Atkinson, Eleanor Bailey, Claire Calman, Mavis Cheek, Candida Clark,...
Wicked Women
Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see...
Laughable Loves
Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather...
Grey Area and Other Stories
These stories create a world of oddity superimposed on an ordinary world. They include six controllers running the whole of London life in all its minutiae; a nightmare tour of...
Someone Like You
There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine...
Marcovaldo
Twenty stories, structured around the seasons as the yearly cycle revolves five times. This is Calvino's magical realist urban fantasy. Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are...
Dead Ends
A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw. Amongst the dead ends ... A murder at a crime writers'...
Dark Roots: Stories
A collection of prize-winning stories by The New Yorker debuted Australian that is "by turns funny, wise, and achingly sad" (Stephanie Bishop, Sydney Morning Herald ). Australian Cate Kennedy delivers...
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
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In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban...
The Book of Witches
An array of original stories from around the world bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction: witches. Witches! Whether you know them...
Life Without Children: Stories
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories ***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN*** A brilliantly warm, witty...
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
_________________________ A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is...
The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales
An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality...Open each door to find a world of magic and menace waiting for you, if...
Short Stories: From a Murder Mystery, to a Man Who Never Was
Short Stories : and now for something completely different, as they once said in a famous film. Over more than 45 years Derryn Hinch has written 19 books from novels...
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
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Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in...
Tenth of December
WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and...
Fancy Free in the Back Thirty!
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This is the second book in a trilogy of books dedicated to the adventures of a retired policeman and his wife Sabine. It represents a humorous look at farming in...
Sands of Time
A spine-tingling collection of haunting tales, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Sands of Time features two intriguing stories that pick up the fortunes of characters...
Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories
Ruth Rendell's seventh collection of short stories also includes two unpublished novellas. The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are...
White Knuckle Ride
Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching fiction from some of Australia's finest.
War Dances
With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey...
When I Was Mortal
In books like A Heart So White, Marias has shown that he is one of Europe's most acute novelists. In this book he proves that his talents are equally suited...
Runaway
A brilliant new collection from the matchless Munro who is recognized as one of the greatest living short story writers, and who makes art out of everyday lives. Her most...
Black Faces, White Faces
A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies...
Women Writers of the Raj
A volume of about 20 stories written by women in and about the Raj. The writers include Alice Perrin, Flora Annie Steel, Christine Weston, Sara J.Duncan, Katherine Mayo, Maud Diver,...
Beyond the Picket Fence: And Other Short Stories
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Love flourishes in these contemporary tales of gentle romance. From camping in the wilds to Christmas at Disneyland to the woman next door, readers will be drawn into the lives...
The Red Carpet
Friction between the generations, always the stuff of great fiction, is nowhere stronger than in Banglore, India's Silicone Valley, where software billionaires, beggars and the legacy of the Raj combine...
Selected Poetry & Prose (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.' As a child growing up...
Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere
In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is...