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Everything in this Country Must
Author: Colum McCann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 'McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the country's recent history with devastating...
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...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two
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...
Grand Union
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
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...
Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction
Author: Hannu Rajaniemi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mindblowingly inventive and beautifully written short stories from the most exciting new name in SF Hannu Rajaniemi exploded onto...
Fear
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...
Hollow in the Land
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...
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wide range of human experience in contemporary America...
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories
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...
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla
Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories
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
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...
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...
The Nature of Middle-earth
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for...
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...
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...
Island
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The High Places: Stories
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Author: Fiona McFarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize "THERE IS IN THESE TALES A RECURRENT 'FEELING OF QUEASY ANTICIPATION, ' AS ONE...
Virgin and Other Stories
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Author: April Ayers Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 One of The Irish Times Best debuts of 2017 One of New York Magazine's 45 New Books to Read This...
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an...
Immigrant, Montana
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...
Trickery
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...
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...
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'...
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
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...
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
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...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
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...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. 'There had been...
Selected Short Fiction
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young...
Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early...
Nothing Much Happens: Calming stories to soothe your mind and help you sleep
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Author: Kathryn Nicolai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In Nothing Much Happens Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of...
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 Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers and Dark Roads: Original Stories by Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, C. J. Box, Diana Gabaldon, Ace Atkins & Others
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The Nature of Middle-earth
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for...
A Permanent Member of the Family
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Author: Russell Banks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "the most compassionate fiction writer...
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...
Dressing Up for the Carnival
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The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches and Reminiscences
Author: Dorothy West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An incredible collection of writing - both essays and short stories - spanning the long career of Dorothy West....
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
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...
Collected Short Stories Volume 1
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...
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...
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'...
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...
An Apple for the Creature
Author: Harris Kelner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 What could be scarier than the first day of school? Take a crash course in the paranormal from editors Charlaine Harris...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 New edition of the Penguin Essential featuring fifteen brilliantly compelling stories about ordinary lives 'Snow was general all over Ireland. It...