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Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 2
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...
Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, and Letters
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories,...
Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 2
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...
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
Author: Bridget Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES. 'Terrific - every bit as good...
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life
Author: Paul Dalla Rosa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' Guardian 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, shortlisted for...
Man V. Nature: From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness
Author: Diane Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE...
Islanders
Author: Cathy Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A beautiful and darkly funny book of linked stories covering two decades in the lives of a group of people on...
Man V. Nature: From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness
Author: Diane Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE...
The Long Answer
Author: Anna Hogeland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'The Long Answer is a triumph of human portraiture, as subtle as it is seething' - Sunday Times 'There were other...
Death at Sea
Author: Andrea Camilleri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A collection of mysteries, adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series. From the title story, 'Death at Sea', in which the alleged...
MIDSUMMER MYSTERIES: Secrets and Suspense from the Queen of Crime
Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season. Summertime -...
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard: 'The literary world's best kept secret' The Times
Author: Jo Ann Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody...
Eyes Guts Throat Bones: Featuring the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year 2023
Author: Moira Fowley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR 2023 'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS. THESE...
Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN
Author: Jem Calder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you've been waiting for someone to close the gap on social distancing, to capture the furtive problems of social media,...
Look For Me and I'll Be Gone
Author: John Edgar Wideman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'This is truly inimitable storytelling' Observer '[A] master of language' New York Times A boy stands alone, unable to enter...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post
Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... 'Spy-masterful storytelling'...
Single, Carefree, Mellow
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...
The Thirteen Problems (Marple)
Author: Agatha Christie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A weekly dinner party Ten amateur sleuths The Tuesday Night Club murders On a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a...
Single, Carefree, Mellow
Author: Katherine Heiny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel,...
Marple: Twelve New Stories
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...
Lucky Breaks
Author: Yevgenia Belorusets Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins ofUkrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia....
Will You Read This, Please?
Author: Joanna Cannon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Moving and vital' i NEWS 'A beautiful book' EVENING STANDARD 'Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible'...
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
Author: Janelle Monae Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed...
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of...
Will You Read This, Please?
Author: Joanna Cannon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Moving and vital' i NEWS 'A beautiful book' EVENING STANDARD 'Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible'...
Zero-Sum
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes...
Wednesday's Child
Author: Yiyun Li Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Any new book by Yiyun Li is a cause for celebration' Sigrid Nunez 'One of our finest living authors' New York...
The Best American Short Stories 2022
Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi...
The Best American Short Stories 2022
Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi...
The Best American Short Stories 2022
Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi...
Sudden Traveller: Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award
Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'No one writes stories the way Hall does and quite possibly no one ever will. Astonishing, miraculous, a gift.' -...
Notes from the Fog
Author: Ben Marcus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'I wake up and I have to make the right choice,' he said. Master-stylist Ben Marcus returns with a wonder-cabinet of...
Fragile Things
Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers Neil Gaiman. The distinctive genius...
Love in Colour: 'So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams
Author: Bolu Babalola Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Perfection in short story form. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.'...
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
Author: Ladee Hubbard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 "Fiercely intelligent, warm in their own way, and absolutely absorbing. . . . Excellent excellent excellent."-Roxane Gay "Ladee Hubbard is a...
Republics of the Mind: New and Selected Stories
Author: James Robertson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The republic of the mind... It might have been a drug, it might have been something you scored in pub toilets,...
We Two Alone: Stories
Author: Jack Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a...
Las Biuty Queens: With an Introduction by Pedro Almodovar
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...
We Two Alone: Stories
Author: Jack Wang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and...
Lucky Breaks
In Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from the margins ofUkrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. Awoman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon...
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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...
Love in Colour: 'So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams
Author: Bolu Babalola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on BBC2 Between the Covers 'Beautifully written and full of joy. Bolu Babalola is a...
The Dominant Animal
Author: Kathryn Scanlan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Anonymous people in anonymous towns; mothers screaming inside their houses, unapologetic doctors, mournful dogs, hungry girls, grandmothers on the...
Fabulous
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...
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings
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...
First Person Singular: Stories
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationally bestselling author of Men Without Women and...
Catapult: Short stories from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of History of Wolves
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'...