Short Stories

Some of the most powerful stories in history are found in the Bible. the very names of their characters - including David, Daniel, Esther, Samson, Joshua and Jonah - evoke...

A heartwarming collection of your favourite Christmas classics that are sure to get you into the festive spirit. Filled with tales of family, presents and all the joy that Christmas...

Roald Dahl turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies: turtles, fingersmiths, "The Mildenhall, Treasure", and even a man who can see with his...

This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brien is the author of Clarissa Oakes, The Wine-Dark...

This satire of Hollywood features King B, an Oscar-winning director who's seen (and filmed) everything, Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the tastes of the American...

The path to true love doesn't always run smooth - sometimes you have to brave dangerous passions to get there. This collection of stories explores the darker side of love...

This charity anthology of powerful, entertaining and original short stories includes some of the finest female contemporary writers such as Kate Atkinson, Eleanor Bailey, Claire Calman, Mavis Cheek, Candida Clark,...

Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see...

If Orfeo is to be king, his mother decides, he must sleep outside. And so Orfeo sleeps in the meadow and becomes friends with the animals, birds, insects and beetles....

From the very first story in the very first book of Christopher Milne's series of NAUGHTY STORIES FOR GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS the tales of naughty kids are told in...

From the very first story in the very first book of Christopher Milne's series of NAUGHTY STORIES FOR GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS the tales of naughty kids are told in...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather...

There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine...

Twenty stories, structured around the seasons as the yearly cycle revolves five times. This is Calvino's magical realist urban fantasy. Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are...

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban...

A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories ***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN*** A brilliantly warm, witty...

_________________________ A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is...

On a sunny day in summer, the pages and squires were gathered around Master William in the courtyard of the castle to learn about the way knights behaved. 'Chivalry' began...

An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality...Open each door to find a world of magic and menace waiting for you, if...

Short Stories : and now for something completely different, as they once said in a famous film. Over more than 45 years Derryn Hinch has written 19 books from novels...

MURDER A millionaire philanthropist is shot while he sleeps. His terrified wife made a narrow escape. Or did she? MYSTERY A crime writer's violent fictions start to come chillingly true....

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in...

This is the second book in a trilogy of books dedicated to the adventures of a retired policeman and his wife Sabine. It represents a humorous look at farming in...

A spine-tingling collection of haunting tales, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Sands of Time features two intriguing stories that pick up the fortunes of characters...

Millions of young readers have loved the World's Worst Children tales - now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World's Worst...

Ruth Rendell's seventh collection of short stories also includes two unpublished novellas. The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are...

Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching fiction from some of Australia's finest.

With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey...

In books like A Heart So White, Marias has shown that he is one of Europe's most acute novelists. In this book he proves that his talents are equally suited...

A heartwarming collection of your favourite Christmas classics that are sure to get you into the festive spirit. Filled with tales of family, presents and all the joy that Christmas...

A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies...

A volume of about 20 stories written by women in and about the Raj. The writers include Alice Perrin, Flora Annie Steel, Christine Weston, Sara J.Duncan, Katherine Mayo, Maud Diver,...

Love flourishes in these contemporary tales of gentle romance. From camping in the wilds to Christmas at Disneyland to the woman next door, readers will be drawn into the lives...

Friction between the generations, always the stuff of great fiction, is nowhere stronger than in Banglore, India's Silicone Valley, where software billionaires, beggars and the legacy of the Raj combine...

A thrilling collection of myths, legends and ghost stories from War Horse author and Britain's best-loved storyteller Michael Morpurgo. Since the beginning of time, strange and mysterious things have happened...

In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is...

Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it's a dog. No, it doesn't. It doesn't think it's a dog. The goose doesn't think. The goose just is. And...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...