Short Stories

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' - Sebastian Barry 'Among...

A one-off collection of twelve Shakespearean-themed murder mysteries set in Elizabethan London, featuring Master Hardy Drew, Constable of the Bankside Watch, from the acclaimed author of the 7th century Irish...

From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before.An engaged couple falls out...

Author: Jeffery DeaverFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 560g, 464 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024 A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln...

Author: Onjali Q. Rauf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Have you heard of the bird that turned to stone? Or of the extra-specially-super-deliciously-fantastically naughty boy who got a frog...

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...

Author: Joanna Cannon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Moving and vital' i NEWS 'A beautiful book' EVENING STANDARD 'Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible'...

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart,...

Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set...

If you enjoyed A Minecraft Movie , you'll love this book! Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn't just help you craft, it's essential to survival! Four misfits...

A collection of stories full of magical creatures and exciting adventures from Enid Blyton, the world's best-loved storyteller. Get ready to enter a world of hidden treasure, dazzling spells and...

This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing,...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled...

For one weekend every July, thousands of readers descend on the historic English town of Harrogate, Yorkshire in pursuit of mysteries, mischief and murder. In Murder in Harrogate, ten of...

Author: Jamel Brinkley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI 'Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic' OBSERVER 'A triumph' COLIN BARRETT An electric collection of...

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season. Summertime -...

Author: Edwidge Danticat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love....

'Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo's trademark humour' Daily Mirror 'These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados' Guardian 'Fast paced and packed with...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.' As a child growing up...

The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller - twenty-one rediscovered early short stories from the legendary global bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. From one of the bestselling science fiction and...

A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling...

Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she...

Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence....

'Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo's trademark humour' Daily Mirror'These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados' Guardian 'Fast paced and packed with the...

'Superb'THE TIMES'Joyous'THE OBSERVERThe beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet...

A charming story collection from Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees - full of friendship and adventure, and perfect to read together Take part in the heroic rescue of...

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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'...

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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'...

A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one...

Author: Lili Hayward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A wonderful tale of love, loss and community with folklore and magic. I adored it!' LIZ FENWICK A town in need....

GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN! When is the queen not just the queen? When she is WONDERQUEEN! KAPOW! Is that an especially large bird? Is it a weirdly small...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It's terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this...

A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales...

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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,...

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily...

Author: Ferdinand von Schirach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'The stories are cool, meticulously crafted, pithy and mordantly amusing . . . [an] extremely powerful book. Highly recommended' Irish...

Author: Michael Morpurgo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Explore friendship, love, revenge, life and death in the pages of From Hereabout Hill. A spell-binding collection of short stories from...

Author: R.A Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 After Riz and her friends successfully led the Counterfeit Bust, Riz has discovered her passion for forensic science. One day at...

In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of...

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Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America,...

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world - and now in beautiful clothbound edition Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in...

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat- yet there were no other signs of death.'...