Short Stories

Author: Sue Lynn Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. Praise for the...

There's a 5* Christmas mystery unfolding at The Regency Grand Hotel... Full of charm and feel-good festive cheer, The Mistletoe Mystery short story is the perfect stocking-filler this Christmas!____It's the...

Author: Lili Hayward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A wonderful tale of love, loss and community with folklore and magic. I adored it!' LIZ FENWICK A town in need....

Author: Cecily Gayford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Not everything that goes bump in the night brings gifts ... As the nights draw in, the veil between worlds thins,...

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Author: Maeve Binchy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'There's nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat' Kate Saunders,...

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...

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...

Author: David Walliams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children! Look out! It's more badly behaved boys...

Author: David WalliamsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 288 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023The brilliant follow-up to the bestselling The World's Worst Children! Ten more stories about hilariously horrible...

Author: David Walliams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups - from the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and artistic genius Tony Ross...

This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. 'Tom was here before the...

The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings AND six more new stories for this edition - 22 stories in all! ENTER A WORLD...

'A magic of words' Neil Gaiman   Set in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked stories follow far-future human colonies living...

Author: David Walliams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children! Look out! It's more badly behaved boys...

A fun-filled collection of summer stories from the world's best-loved storyteller! Perfect for children aged 5 and up!Are you ready for the sunny season? From trips to the seaside and...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions...

Author: David Walliams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The brilliant follow-up to the bestselling The World's Worst Children! Ten more stories about hilariously horrible kids! Do you dare to...

Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before...

Author: Bill Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the...

An unmissable collection of three How to Train Your Dragon stories, featuring new and exclusive short story WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking...

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

During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...

An incredible collection of brand new short stories, from ten of the UK's very best storytellers, celebrating inspirational girls and women, being published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's...

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation;...

Author: Julia Eccleshare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A classic collection of tales for young readers of about five, featuring beloved characters and lively stories by Michael...

Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Newly re-jacketed for a new generation, the bestselling collection by the greatest short story writer in the world and...

Author: Hanif Kureishi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house. When Parvez's...

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart,...

Author: Djuna Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three...

Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen of literary erotica. From Mathilde's lust-filled Peruvian opium den to the Hungarian baron driven insane...

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A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is...

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...

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...

Three fantastical and funny tales with full colour illustrations, the perfect introduction for younger readers to the world of master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett. Three fantastical and funny tales of...

From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before.An engaged couple falls out...

Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This definitive collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your...

In THE REFUGEES , Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers...

The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller - twenty-one rediscovered early short stories from the legendary global bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. From one of the bestselling science fiction and...

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important...

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah...

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...

A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. Katherine Mansfield was...

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...

The award-winning stories in this collection range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths...

A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out...

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' - Sebastian Barry 'Among...