Fiction

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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...

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Author: Peter Chiykowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality...Open each door to find a...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of...

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: Emma Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines...

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: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Enter the sinister, twisted world of Roald Dahl- whether you're young or old, you'll never want to leave. Roald...

Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since...

Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...

Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection...

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...

Author: Hanif Kureishi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William Boyd Comic, dark and insightful, What...

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: P. D. James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk....

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen 'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short...

Author: Alistair MacLeod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world. These slow, beautiful stories - resolute...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable, Roald Dahl. What could go wrong when a wife...

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: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...

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: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we...

Author: Xuan Juliana Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a...

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: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of...

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: 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: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake Tales of upheaval and...

Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This stylish edition of collected short fiction, celebrating the work of one of Australia's most loved authors, is now...

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: 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: John Lanchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Selfie-sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white,...

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: 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: 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: 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: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...

Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local...

Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...