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Things Look Different in the Light & Other Stories
Among these wonderful, blackly comic tales from the Spanish master of the short story, an office queen falls from her throne, a tartan shirt holds the threads of a man's...
The Traveller and Other Stories: Thirteen unnerving tales from the
'Stuart Neville writes crime fiction that is edgy, compelling and always deeply humane' - Mark BillinghamBringing together thirteen unsettling tales from one of Northern Ireland's bestselling crime authors, The Traveller...
Fool for Love: The Selected Short Stories
In one new volume, an irresistible collection of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories, previously unpublished in book form.'What informs Moggach's excellent stories is...
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
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Terrific Mother: Faber Stories
Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor...
Best of the Young American Novelists
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Granta 47: Losers
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Goodnight Stories
A bedtime collection of short stories by the world's best-loved storyteller. Perfect for children aged 5 and up!From a wizard on the moon to midnight fairy parties, there's a dreamy...
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium to Her Journals
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Float Up, Sing Down
From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana.Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...
Flowers from the Void: 'An impressive debut from a very talented new
Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tales. A reaper readies herself for her next gruesome assignment and a bereaved African witch prepares...
Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Five and the Missing Prize
Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers with this NEWLY-CREATED story for children aged 5 and up!When the Five go to the village show, they find themselves in the heart...
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from
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...
Only the Animals
Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing...
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad...
Animal Stories: Contains 30 classic tales
A charming new bumper short-story collection from the world's best-loved storyteller.A fantastic collection of 30 stories about animals of all shapes and sizes, this will charm children aged 6 and...
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
The award-winning stories in this collection range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths...
The Dominant Animal
Anonymous people in anonymous towns; mothers screaming inside their houses, unapologetic doctors, mournful dogs, hungry girls, grandmothers on the couch tethered in a blue spell, steaks in soft sacks of...
Aphrodite's Hat
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Five-Minute Summer Stories
A fun-filled collection of summer stories from the world's best-loved storyteller! Perfect for children aged 5 and up!Are you ready for the sunny season? From trips to the seaside and...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC [...]
WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Winner of the 2023 BBC [...]
WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariously and so reasonably voicing the unspeakable'Sarah...
The World to Come: Stories
A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless' George Saunders'One of the US's finest writers' according to Joshua Ferris, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and...
Hunter in Huskvarna
"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" Christian House, Financial TimesA young woman becomes obsessed with her...
Hard Lessons
A collection of four novellas: Life is full of hard lessons. From finding out who you really are under an endless Montana sky to meeting the fascinating stranger when your...
Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, [...]
In celebration of the Glyndebourne Festival, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. Includes...
Five Ways to Forgiveness
'A magic of words' Neil GaimanSet in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked stories follow far-future human colonies living in the...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns...Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June...
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales [...]
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...
Songs for the Flames
"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine"Juan Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as...
Canoes
Seven interconnected stories orbit a central novella to create a collection of tales which resonate with the sound of women's voices.A widower struggles to erase his wife's voice from his...
Button, Button: Uncanny Stories
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Animal Stories: Contains 30 classic tales
A charming new bumper short-story collection from the world's best-loved storyteller.A fantastic collection of 30 stories about animals of all shapes and sizes, this will charm children aged 6 and...
Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour
Who's Loving You is a collection of short stories celebrating desire and love in all its guises, written by and reflecting the experiences of women of colour in an authentic...
Katerina the Cat and Other Tales from the Farm (A Farms for City [...]
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...
Dangerous Pleasures: A Decade of Stories
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
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Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women
Enter a world in which magic exists, hope wins and every woman's heart is alive with courage! This global feast of ancient tales features valiant women overcoming every kind of...
If I Survive You
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 and deeply moving tragicomic debut...
Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round from Australian rock legend & bestselling author of WORKING CLASS BOY, WORKING CLASS MAN & KILLING TIME
The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
Katerina the Cat and Other Tales from the Farm (A Farms for City Children Book)
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...
The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories
Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the...
Spellbinding Stories
A bewitching collection of magical tales by the world's best-loved storyteller. Perfect for children aged 5 and up!From witches and wizards to spells and enchantments, there's a spellbinding story for...
Short Stories are Not Real Life: Short Fiction
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The Rendezvous and Other Stories
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Winter of Summers
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Strange Highways
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