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The Victim: Faber Stories

The Victim: Faber Stories

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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....
Ayiti

Ayiti

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Author: Roxane Gay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married...
Reality, and Other Stories

Reality, and Other Stories

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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,...
The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried

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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...
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

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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...
After the Quake

After the Quake

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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...
Dubliners

Dubliners

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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...
Dark Tales

Dark Tales

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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...
Little Birds

Little Birds

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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...
Homesick For Another World

Homesick For Another World

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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...
The Collected Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

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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...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

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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...
Wednesday's Child

Wednesday's Child

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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...
Snowdrift and Other Stories (includes three new recently discovered short stories)

Snowdrift and Other Stories (includes three new recently discovered short stories)

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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...
Dogs: Stories and Poems

Dogs: Stories and Poems

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Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...
Runaway

Runaway by Alice Munro

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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...
That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music

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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,...
The Complete Short Fiction

The Complete Short Fiction

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
Delta of Venus

Delta of Venus

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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...
Just an Ordinary Day

Just an Ordinary Day

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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...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

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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...
How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love

How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love

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Author: Carys Bray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a...
Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories

Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories

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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...
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories

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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...
Island

Island

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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...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

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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...
Dance of the Happy Shades

Dance of the Happy Shades

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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...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

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Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

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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...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories

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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...
Gothic Tales

Gothic Tales

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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...
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

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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...
Zero-Sum

Zero-Sum

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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...
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

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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...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

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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...
Master and Man and Other Stories

Master and Man and Other Stories

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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...
The Collected Short Stories

The Collected Short Stories

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Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...
Montreal Noir

Montreal Noir

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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...
Fen: Stories

Fen: Stories

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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...
Jump and Other Stories

Jump and Other Stories

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Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Jump and Other Stories collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with...
Grand Union

Grand Union

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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...
That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music

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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...
Fear

Fear

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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...
Getting it in the Head

Getting it in the Head

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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...
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories

Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories

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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...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories

How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories

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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...
The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones

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Author: Julianne Pachico Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Lucky Ones is Julianne Pachico's haunting debut collection of stories. Set in lush, heady Colombia - and also...
The Elephanta Suite

The Elephanta Suite

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Author: Paul Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India. This startling, far-reaching...