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The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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'An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful in planning and bringing off his effects' Daily Telegraph In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live,...
Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon

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Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting Ernest Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting. 'I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and...
The Complete Short Fiction

The Complete Short Fiction

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Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...
Snot Chocolate: and other funny stories

Snot Chocolate: and other funny stories

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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...
The Garden Party and Other Stories

The Garden Party and Other Stories

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with an introduction by Lorna Sage Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set...
Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

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Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children and young girls racked by desire, where...
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

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These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder...
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous intentions, family...
Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

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Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her...
The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories

The Penguin Best Australian Short Stories

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The Hill Bachelors

The Hill Bachelors

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Elsewhere: 'Wonderful writing' Sarah Hall

Elsewhere: 'Wonderful writing' Sarah Hall

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'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' - SARAH HALL'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' - DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN'Precise, surreal and emotionally devastating' - LUCY CALDWELL'How do you...
Difficult Women

Difficult Women

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Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with...
A Model World

A Model World

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Spooky Stories

Spooky Stories

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A spine-tingling collection of spooky stories to share. Eight spooky stories to bring you out in goosebumps. A haunted castle, a spooky diary, a creepy treehouse and a ghostly mummy...
If I Survive You

If I Survive You

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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...
Chestnut Street

Chestnut Street

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Superb storytelling from one of the world's best-loved writers.     Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of...
A Fistful of Moonlight: New Fiction from Assam

A Fistful of Moonlight: New Fiction from Assam

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"Tender, terrifying, and heart-rending . . . A must read" GEETANJALI SHREE, author of International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of SandA Fistful of Moonlight is a collection of fourteen stories that...
Flowers from the Void: 'An impressive debut from a very talented new writer' Guardian

Flowers from the Void: 'An impressive debut from a very talented new

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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...
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem

A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem

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Days Like Today

Days Like Today

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In these five stories, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Cupid and Psyche, Penelope, Oedipus, Icarus and Odysseus inhabit the consciousness of characters who wrestle...
The Dominant Animal

The Dominant Animal

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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

Aphrodite's Hat

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Songs for the Flames

Songs for the Flames

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"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

Canoes

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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...
The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories

The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories

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Watching Women & Girls

Watching Women & Girls

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'A moving collection' GRAZIA'Danielle is a sharp new talent.' SIRIN KALE'Vibrant, intense and darkly comic' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM'Danielle Pender explores that impact on women's exterior and interior lives with brevity, depth...
Rumpole And the Angel of Death

Rumpole And the Angel of Death

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The State We're In: Maine Stories

The State We're In: Maine Stories

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Author: Ann BeattieFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 221g, 224 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2016For the first time in a decade, the writer that John Updike credited with creating an...
Recipes For Crime

Recipes For Crime

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Collected Stories

Collected Stories

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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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White Time

White Time

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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

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Author: Anthony Veasna So Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland By...
The Empty Family

The Empty Family

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Bodies from the Library 6: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Masters of the Golden Age of Detection

Bodies from the Library 6: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Masters of the Golden Age of Detection

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Author: Tony Medawar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2023 volume is another...
500 Words: A collection of short stories that reflect on the Black Lives Matter movement

500 Words: A collection of short stories that reflect on the Black Lives Matter movement

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Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

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Cat Brushing: a dazzling short story collection about thirteen older women

Cat Brushing: a dazzling short story collection about thirteen older women

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Author: Jane Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 'Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original' Pandora Sykes 'A fierce and fascinating debut'...
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard: 'The literary world's best kept secret' The Times

The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard: 'The literary world's best kept secret' The Times

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Author: Jo Ann Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody...
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

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Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This definitive collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your...
Float Up, Sing Down

Float Up, Sing Down

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Author: Laird Hunt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana. Candy...
Where Magic Grows: Unique Tales of Wonder and Enchantment

Where Magic Grows: Unique Tales of Wonder and Enchantment

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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...
East Into Upper East

East Into Upper East

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This Hostel Life

This Hostel Life

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR'A landmark book by an important new voice in Irish writing' EMILIE PINETHIS HOSTEL LIFE tells the...
Crime Wave

Crime Wave

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The Perfect Crime

The Perfect Crime

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Author: Vaseem Khan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Around the world in 22 murders... LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER AWARD '22 hugely engaging and eloquent crime...
This Year It Will be Different

This Year It Will be Different

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