Short Stories

'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.' When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered...

A finalist for the National Book Award - a luminous new collection of stories from a young writer with 'a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World...

Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri - one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Hearts will be healed and hearts broken, but...

The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem . From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32...

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle and The Times bestseller Shadowstitch At home one memorable summer, Miranda unearths a mysterious suitcase in...

When Lauren brings her puppy to school, Class 2R have a mission: hide the puppy from Miss Riley. But it's Movie Afternoon and the delicious smell of popcorn is too...

When Lauren brings her puppy to school, Class 2R have a mission: hide the puppy from Miss Riley. But it's Movie Afternoon and the delicious smell of popcorn is too...

Featured in Barak Obama's 2026 Summer Reading List. 'Camille Bordas is an invaluable new voice' George Saunders A young woman takes stock following a burglary. A teenager becomes obsessed with...

Princess Minna is very good at taming unicorns, kissing frogs and fighting dragons. She always saves the day and is helped by lots of her friends. And now Princess Sky-Blue...

'Superb. An incandescent, charged and propulsive work. I inhaled this collection. It's a testament to Sunny Singh's considerable talents as a writer' Irenosen Okojie Nur and Abid relearn to love...

This is a collection of short stories in Spanish, bringing to life the Philippines of the nineteenth century.

Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow; Kazuko,...

Wigglesbottom Primary is the school where anything can happen! For example, Jacob Barry's stinky shoe can ACTUALLY PREDICT THE FUTURE, the boys' toilets are HAUNTED, and then there's the CURSE...

The first-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's...

Princess Minna is very good at taming unicorns, kissing frogs and fighting dragons. She always saves the day and is helped by lots of her friends. And now Princess Sky-Blue...

The book titled The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories by the author Rosaleen Love. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals , set among young adults in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he...

In The Quantity Theory of Morality, Will Self's pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. The disaffected, middle-class, middle-aged urbanites that populate the novel seem helpless to stop...

The book titled Best of Rumpole: Rumpole And the Younger Generation;Rumpole a by the author John Mortimer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Part of a major series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a chronology, further reading, notes, glossaries and an introduction discussing the...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired...

Seven strange and disturbing stories - computer-generated collaborations based on pieces by different writers, and shaken, stirred and transformed by the poet John Tranter. In a Norwegian fiord, Biggles clashes...

'Joyously diabolic' CAMILLA GRUDOVA 'Dark and sumptuous and unapologetically peculiar' LISA McINERNEY 'Marvellously unnerving' ERIC LaROCCA Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from child to adult,...

WINNER OF A 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR ABIA Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. This anthology has them all. With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa...

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered...

A dazzling, bravura collection of stories from one of Australia's most admired multi-disciplinary artists. From the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2026 Can you sever a...

The book titled Short Stories by the author Luigi Pirandello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods, from triumphant to tragic. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these...

B`An unquiet and mysterious country of inextinguishable desires and fears' `The Lagoon' creates and sustains an ironic tension between reality and romance thatpreoccupies all of the twelve stories in this...

Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the bestselling creator of the vogue for "Sensation fiction" in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length...

This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing...

Plt;bPgt;Pquot;A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago.Pquot; P#8212;Alfred KazinPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;MaggiePlt;/iPgt;, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own...

_______________________ A DRAMATIC FICTIONAL PORTRAIT OF THE US-MEXICO BORDER, MIGRATION, AND ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES _______________________ Through this network of nine personal stories, Carlos Fuentes sets out to explain...

Jeffery Deaver loves writing short stories. 'All bets are off,' he says. 'Short stories are like a sniper's bullet. Fast and shocking. I can make good bad and bad badder,...

From Australia's favourite rural storyteller, Rachael Treasure, comes this highly anticipated collection of short fiction. It features stories full of warmth and heart and humour, and with characters as diverse...

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 - 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the...

By the author of "Snow Falling On Cedars", this collection of short stories are mainly narrated by older men, recounting the wrong turns and lost opportunities that have occurred in...

The book titled Place of Birth by the author Beverley Farmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a...

Since its invention in 1903, the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport, travel, and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect...

The collection that invented an American mythology and some of its most memorable figures from Rip van Winkle to the Headless Horseman. The timeless collection that introduced Rip Van Winkle,...

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...