Short Stories

From the author of LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR, the bestselling companion read to LOST SOULS MEET UNDER A FULL MOON, adored by fans, now in English for the first...

A playful photo-story on the microscopic world of ants. In this innovative series by award-winning Spanish photographer Fernando Maquieira (born 1966), Ant Lea ventures out of the anthill for the...

The prince of the title is not the present incumbent but a neo-fascist layabout served by a court of booted hoodlums in a parody of the Arthurian legend...

This stellar collection of 26 never-before-published short stories features work by the worlds most popular female crime writers, including Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, and Amanda Cross, Women on the Case...

This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in...

To find God a 'client' prepares to be buried alive. A Korean woman quietly puts the finishing touches to tidying her employer's house, hoping to shame the Japanese invader. Choirboys...

Relive adventures from across the last 100 years of Disney in this storybook celebration

Join the Avengers for a storytime packed with action, excitement and teamwork as the heroes battle giant insects

One minute I'm lying on the floor reading a book, the next minute I've got my granny's teeth clamped to my bum. Yoweeeee! But that's only the start of the...

'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI 'Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic' OBSERVER 'A triumph' COLIN BARRETT An electric collection of stories set in contemporary New York, from the award-winning...

'A startling meditation on grief and family and betrayal and the stories we tell about ourselves ... introspective, psychologically astute, and engaging' - Kirkus starred review 'There were other women,...

'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend' - Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of THERE...

In one new volume , an irresistible collect ion of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories, previously unpublished in book form. 'What informs Moggach's...

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...

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...

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...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE Almost-true stories for a post-truth world Wrong! Not Nice! Sad! A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and...

'One of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors' Samanta Schweblin, author of Little Eyes Dazzling and hallucinatory, the stories collected here recall the masters of magical...

It's the summer holidays and Horrid Henry would like to be spending his holidays eating unlimited ice cream and going on all the scariest roller coasters he can find -...

After Riz and her friends successfully led the Counterfeit Bust, Riz has discovered her passion for forensic science. One day at school, she finds the perfect opportunity to break out...

Number One for Fiendish Fun! Join Horrid Henry in another bumper book of mischief. Henry adores scary stories and ghoulish goings-on. Here are six of his most terrible tales about...

Designed for reading aloud to three-to-five year olds, this is a collection of very short stories drawn from an array of childhood themes. Filled with vibrant and appealing images, some...

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...

From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin's latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five...

A strange love triangle unravels in this masterly study of storytelling, deception and desire They met when they were teenagers. Quiet, poor, perhaps even a little dull, Miguel fell for...

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he...

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF A...

The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always...

Reissue of the collected stories, now including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', the extraordinary fable of a man who lives his life backwards Encompassing the very best of F....

A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which...

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...

'Superb. . . These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons. . . O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday...

Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . . How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery...

2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers In these stories lives come into...

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives...

A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her...

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in...

'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's...

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows...

A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and...

2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers Discover Alice Munro's first mesmerising and...

"I am not asking you to agree with me. In fact, I'd be happier if you didn't. I am afraid of self-censorship in a place of supposed radicalism like a...

Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation. This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda , takes...

The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer.A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail'The perfect holiday treat' GuardianThis collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr Ruth Galloway,...