Short Stories

The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , that has been called "scintillating" ( New York Times Books...

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...

Short Stories : and now for something completely different, as they once said in a famous film. Over more than 45 years Derryn Hinch has written 19 books from novels...

MURDER A millionaire philanthropist is shot while he sleeps. His terrified wife made a narrow escape. Or did she? MYSTERY A crime writer's violent fictions start to come chillingly true....

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in...

A collection of sizzling summer-themed crime and mystery stories by thirteen of the most exciting children's book authors! Co-edited by Serena Patel, the award-winning author of the Anisha: Accidental Detective...

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...

This is the second book in a trilogy of books dedicated to the adventures of a retired policeman and his wife Sabine. It represents a humorous look at farming in...

A spine-tingling collection of haunting tales, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Sands of Time features two intriguing stories that pick up the fortunes of characters...

A gorgeous picture book to delight all little readers, with surprises from old friends who live in the Faraway Tree and hidden birds. Collect the whole series for a year-round...

Millions of young readers have loved the World's Worst Children tales - now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World's Worst...

Ruth Rendell's seventh collection of short stories also includes two unpublished novellas. The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are...

Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching fiction from some of Australia's finest.

With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey...

In books like A Heart So White, Marias has shown that he is one of Europe's most acute novelists. In this book he proves that his talents are equally suited...

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror and the author of what is considered the first modern detective story. This anthology gathers more than 20...

A heartwarming collection of your favourite Christmas classics that are sure to get you into the festive spirit. Filled with tales of family, presents and all the joy that Christmas...

A brilliant new collection from the matchless Munro who is recognized as one of the greatest living short story writers, and who makes art out of everyday lives. Her most...

A stunning selection of the best short fiction from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature This collection of Nadine Gordimer's short fiction demonstrates her rich use of language...

A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies...

A volume of about 20 stories written by women in and about the Raj. The writers include Alice Perrin, Flora Annie Steel, Christine Weston, Sara J.Duncan, Katherine Mayo, Maud Diver,...

Love flourishes in these contemporary tales of gentle romance. From camping in the wilds to Christmas at Disneyland to the woman next door, readers will be drawn into the lives...

Friction between the generations, always the stuff of great fiction, is nowhere stronger than in Banglore, India's Silicone Valley, where software billionaires, beggars and the legacy of the Raj combine...

Junot Diaz's new collection, This Is How You Lose Her , is a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told...

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...

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...

Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it's a dog. No, it doesn't. It doesn't think it's a dog. The goose doesn't think. The goose just is. And...

In these five long stories, written specifically for Christmas, Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional seasonal lore. A Christmas Carol,...

'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In 'The Casebook', you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan...

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...

The Truth in Fiction is a collection of eighteen short stories written and collated over the last ten years. Many of them are stories written about the streets of London,...

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...

A collection of gripping short stories themed around fear and hope written by internationally acclaimed children's author Brian Falkner. A boy helps his sister disguise her birthmark on her first...

This is a delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi Lewis. All the best-known and most-loved stories are included - "Thumbelina",...

Three outstanding novellas, depicting with a heart-wrenching honesty the limits of human love. Against setting that range from the alleyways of Paris to the northern plains of Montana and the...

After the war, the destruction begins. With exquisite prose and breathtaking insight, Mary Yukari Waters brings to life a generation of Japanese women who survived the war their husbands did...

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...