Short Stories

'The supremely original writer among a gifted generation of young British fiction talents' - Scotland on Sunday The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. L....

A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. Praise for the world of the Celestial Kingdom duology: 'Epic, romantic, and enthralling...

A charming story collection from Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees - full of friendship and adventure, and perfect to read together Find out how Elvis the donkey helps...

A collection of short stories in the popular style of Morris Gleitzman's Give Peas a Chance and Pizza Cake - except, of course, even funnier! STORIES THAT DIG DEEP! Stop...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE 'Dazzling' GUARDIAN 'Blistering' THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS 'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT 'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES An electrifying, hilarious...

Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty, with unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat becomes the...

The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul...

The book titled 33 Moments of Happiness by the author Ingo Schulze. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Oz deserves his high reputation' - Sunday Telegraph Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed...

'Crook has stepped on to the gore-slicked stage with a deliciously gruesome portfolio of twisty tales' DAILY MAIL 'Plenty of creepy fun to be had' GUARDIAN There's a new horror...

Ten prize-winning authors each with a brand new story based on their own schooldays. Bernard Ashley, Malorie Blackman, Berlie Doherty, Paul Jennings, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Jenny Nimmo, Michael Rosen,...

Roald Dahl can stand on your head, twist you in knots, tie up your hands and leave you gasping for more. In this, his latest selection of short stories the...

The book titled The Woodpecker Toy Fact by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Who was the laughing, half-demented man in the mirror of the vintage car? What was the creature guarding Willy's aunt's house? Or the pulsing, jelly-like blob in the corner of...

A timeless collection of such authors as Lewis Carroll, Anna Sewell and Kenneth Grahame. Each author is introduced to the reader.

A collection of short stories for the younger readers of ages 5-8 yrs.

A selection of ever-popular Blyton short stories for the younger reader, with clear text and illustrated throughout Suitable for ages 5-8 years. *

The book titled The Last Good Man by the author Daniel Lyons. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The best-loved girl characters in literature! The Kingfisher Book of Classic Girl Stories brings together all your favourite girl characters in one wonderful volume. Now available in paperback for the...

A collection of nine stories featuring the investigations of Jemima Shore. Settings for the stories range from a Caribbean graveyard to a leafy London square. Other work by the author...

The book titled Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 2nd by the author Liza Cody. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Paper Windows is an outstanding and very popular selection of short short stories. Through these entertaining stories and the exercises and activities which follow, students and teachers can quickly and...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi-the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play...

Here are stories from the lives of lesbian couple Renee and Celia and their extended family -- stories about gay-baiting, about the closet, about choices and life's sheer unpredictability. From...

A therapist is jolted to find her lover having an affair with one of her patients. An older Jewish lesbian recounts the story of her first and only love to...

Carol Shields "has a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary" (New York Daily News). And nowhere more than in Dressing Up for the Carnival, which distills all her...

In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein's Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition...

When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare...

The words murder and romance seldom appear together. If given a choice, most of us would prefer them to be as far apart as possible. But there is no denying...

This is a collection of short stories set in the goldfields of central Victoria in the 1870s. They are pioneering tales of Aboriginal Yurgama Jacobs and his dingo pet Marakorpa....

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be...

A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her...

The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways of their place in their world, of power, virility, love of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger....

frog guts, shark shock, snake fright, boys' farts, girls' germs, alien trouble, surfing the wheat, surviving the storm, finding spooky treasure. Startling stories from a bold new Adelaide writer.

In rich, ironic and revaeling prose Ginu Kamani depicts the lives of Indian women ranging accross class, age and attitude. JUNGLEE GIRL is a compelling and stimulating collection by a...

By The Award-Winning Author Of "The Last Crossing "And "The Englishman's Boy" Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death...

Third in the series about Jerry Flack and his ill-fated attempts to become a Cool Guy! Now the class president, Jerry decides to put on an Elizabethan festival to raise...

Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck, and two...

Pavilion's Children's Books have gathered together the favourite tales from master-storytellers Terry Jones and Nanette Newman in one enchanting volume, illustrated throughout in the magically vivid watercolours of Michael Foreman....

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or...

Helen Dunmore writes poetry, short stories and novels both for children and adults and she has received widespread acclaim for work. All ten books of her adult fiction have been...