Author: W. S. Gilbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as...
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: Jonathan Strahan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 HERE BE DRAGONS... A unique collection of stories by the greatest fantasy writers working today. Sparking myths and legends...
Australian realism in its rawest and simplest form. Helen Garner is one of our greatest living authors and this collection is the perfect entry point – Jim
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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: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best...
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: Tim O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The...
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: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories...
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
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: Angela Carter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A special edition of the best stories by Angela Carter, the master of fabulous, seductive, luminous storytelling WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...
Author: Matilda Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A range of simple stories for new readers, with beautiful colour illustrations. With a shrill whistle the Night Train is off,...
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: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection...
Author: Kevin Barry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island,...
Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Cecelia Ahern at her quirky, magical best' Daily Mail A story for every woman. A story for every moment....
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...
Author: David Walliams Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: The new children's book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams - a deliciously daft Tall Story of a child who had...
Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyer's earliest short stories, published together in book...
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown him to...
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious...
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of...
Author: Akhil Sharma Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Even...
Author: Deborah Eisenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again...
Author: Naomi Ishiguro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Stories that start like delicate webs and finish like unbreakable wire traps' Naomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story...
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: 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: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...
Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
Author: Deb Olin Unferth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 "Deb Olin Unferth's stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice--each an intense little thought-system going...
Author: Wells Tower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off...
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: 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: 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: 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: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...
Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...
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: Bryan Washington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American...
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: 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: Alice Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a...
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: 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: John McFetridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "These 15 new stories celebrate the differences between us and our northern neighbor. As in any good noir, poverty, drugs, and...
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: Kevin Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer...
Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then...
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Roald Dahl's tales of war, conflict and strife . . . In war are we at our heroic best...
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: 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: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...
Author: Mike McCormack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 McCormack's celebrated debut collection is richly imaginative, bitterly funny, powerful and original. Here we enter a world where the...
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: 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...
