Short Stories

A new book of stories about the daily adventures of the popular Snake and Lizard. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centred; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Even...

The book titled In a Father's Place by the author Christopher Tilghman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working Class Stories of the by the author H. Gustav Klaus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

For Tessa and Weston, happily-ever-after is just the beginning... Five stories. One unforgettable year. Snapshots of Sunlight follows the next chapters of Tessa and Weston's story as they navigate growing...

Featuring all four of Enid Blyton's much-loved 'O'Clock' titles, this book includes over 100 magical and exciting short stories that you can enjoy at any time of the day

The acclaimed BARCELONA PLATES revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way. Now, in his new collection THE DOG CATCHER,...

James Finn Garner's hilarious adaptations of classic bedtime stories satirise our modern sensitivity to all sexist, racist, culturalist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist and phallocentrist bias and reflect our more enlightened...

Philby and Frank are first-year medical students on a quest to become cool. Trouble is, Frank's already there and Philby doesn't even know what to order at the pub. This...

For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume. 'Carol Shields' stories have given me happiness, not...

A collection of Patrick Gale's most brilliant pieces of short fiction. The subjects are wide-ranging and various - curious childhood loyalties, long-hidden memories, newly discovered joys, startling secrets, dislocated relationships,...

The book titled Further Fables for Our Time by the author James Thurber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Beautifully crafted' New York Times 'The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent' Celeste Ng From an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's...

The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one gorgeous volume. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the...

Number One for Fiendish Fun! Join Horrid Henry in another bumper book of mischief. Horrid Henry and his next-door neighbour, Moody Margaret, are sworn enemies - as are the rest...

Come with Claude on three classic wintery adventures . . . Join Claude and Sir Bobblysock as they encounter accidental avalanches, a bottom-shaking showstopper and a bearded burglar who turns...

Read the true stories of some amazing space adventurers! Meet the superstars of space exploration. From daring astronauts to genius stargazers, these true stories are packed with peril, bravery and...

Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers with this NEWLY-CREATED mystery story for children aged 5 and up! When the Five see a page ripped from a book, they are...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'These three novellas in a single volume show...

Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of nowhere. We are her sons and daughters. These are our triumphs and our...

Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ Norman turns their hand to fiction with spectacular results. This brilliant collection of short fiction...

Humorous, eclectic and beautifully crafted, this collection of 22 short stories encompasses the fantastic and the real, the dystopian and the sublime, the playful and the sombre. 'Unpredictable, imaginative and...

Ideal for students of German as well as crime story enthusiasts, this dual-language edition contains ten short stories. Selections range from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classics by Friedrich Schiller ("Der Verbrecher...

Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1 international bestselling author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Grab a flashlight, crawl under the...

Always hated liner notes - always hated any kinda writing about rock'n'roll - I mean, why don't ya just shut up & listen to the music? - but here I...

'What Becomes marshals all the qualities of her justly praised writing: unflinching insight, clear and spacious prose, a narrative voice that bounces between grave compassion and bantering wickedness and plenty...

A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist',...

"I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to...

For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and...

Tjarany Roughtail contains eight dreamtime stories, all significant to the history of the Kukatja people of Western Australia's remote Kimberley Region. Each story is complemented by beautiful artworks painted by...

The book titled Filter House by the author Nisi Shawl. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Simply retold and wonderfully illustrated, this series brings together charming tales that children will enjoy. Each story takes approximately 10 minutes to read.

Read the real-life stories of some spooky happenings from around the world! Step into the world of the strange and supernatural. Discover the chilling secrets of ghostly visitors, alien encounters...

If you enjoyed A Minecraft Movie , you'll love this book! Emmy and Birch go on an adventure to explore a woodland mansion in this Young Reader book and the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Perfection in short story form. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.' Candice Carty-Williams 'Beautifully written and full of joy. Bolu...

This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the Penguin Popular Classics series.

Winner of the Sapir Prize 2019. A man is bribed to step into a courtroom to call an unknown defendant a murderer. A rich, lonely man hits on the idea...

The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'I think he's the greatest writer since Salinger' Richard Ayoade 'I...

From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic , comes a novella and three stories of immediate power and grace 'A superbly...

A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative...

All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and...

The stories are published for the first time in their entirety in Penguin Modern Classics In these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions....

The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations ,...

The poignant story of survival and hope as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series Winner - Australian Book Industry Awards 2011 Winner - YABBA...

The book titled Merry-go-round by the author W. Somerset Maugham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.