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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 391 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Book of Prague: A City in Short Fiction by Ivana Myšková & Jan Zikmund (Editors)
    The Book of Prague: A City in Short Fiction - by Ivana Myšková & Jan Zikmund (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781912697786 | ISBN 10: 1912697785

    Featuring: Bohumil Hrabal, Michal Ajvaz, Irena Dousková , Simona Bohatá, Jan Zábrana, Petr Borkovec, Marek Šindelka, Patrik Banga, Veronika Bendová & Marie Stryjová   An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
    White Cat, Black Dog - by Kelly Link

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804548424 | ISBN 10: 1804548421

    Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.   Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales by Martin Edwards (Editor)
    Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales - by Martin Edwards (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780712354080 | ISBN 10: 0712354085

    A brand-new anthology centred around the best stories from celebrated Welsh authors as well as short mysteries inspired by or set in the cities and wilds of the country.   “Ahoy, my lad!” he bellowed back. “I didn’t expect you so earl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stay: Stories from People in Covid-19 by Various authors
    Stay: Stories from People in Covid-19 - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580936 | ISBN 10: 1910580937

    In the height of the pandemic, the most vulnerable members of our community were ordered to stay home and stay safe in isolation. They endured loneliness, heartbreak, and loss, and yet throughout it all they remained filled with hope for better days. ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Ashes: New Writing Exploring Fantasy, Adventure & Revolution by Various authors
    From the Ashes: New Writing Exploring Fantasy, Adventure & Revolution - by Various authors

    £5.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781916571020 | ISBN 10: 1916571026

    From the Ashes is an intricate tapestry of human experience told through stories, poetry, and scripts from WoW’s acclaimed Write to Work course.   Within these pages, the complexities of trauma, revolution, monsters and heroes are explored, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Antarctica by Claire Keegan
    Antarctica - by Claire Keegan

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571382217 | ISBN 10: 0571382215

    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 ‘Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fict ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State by Orsola Casagrande & Mustafa Gundogdu (Editors)
    Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State - by Orsola Casagrande & Mustafa Gundogdu (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781912697366 | ISBN 10: 191269736x

    Featuring: Qadir Agid, Yildiz Cakar, Selahattin Demirtas, Omer Dilsoz, Muharrem Erbey, Nariman Evdike, Ava Homa, Hüseyin Karabey, Karzan Kardozi, Sema Kaygusuz, Meral Simsek, Jahangir Mahmoudveysi & Jîl Şwanî   Winner of a PEN Translates A ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights by Various authors, Edited by Cecily Gayford
    The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights - by Various authors, Edited by Cecily Gayford

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800817753 | ISBN 10: 1800817754

    In the dead of winter, the veil between worlds is as thin as ice   Not everything that goes bump in the night brings gifts ...   As the nights draw in, the veil between worlds thins, and all sorts of ghosts and ghouls come tumbling in. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin
    Rainbow Rainbow - by Lydia Conklin

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398508576 | ISBN 10: 1398508578

    A collection of stories that celebrate the humour, darkness and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that’s not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception and queer joy.   In this delightful debut coll ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories For Winter and Nights by the Fire by Various authors
    Stories For Winter and Nights by the Fire - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780712354691 | ISBN 10: 0712354697

    Stories for Winter is a collection of short stories that take their inspiration from this cold, snowy season, whether it’s winter holidays, weather-related predicaments or seasonal celebrations. In keeping with the spirit of the Women Writers serie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo
    Ghost Lover - by Lisa Taddeo

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526653185 | ISBN 10: 1526653184

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal comes an electric masterclass in short fiction.  'Fearless... This summer's must-read literary thriller' EVENING STANDARD   'Showcases Taddeo's dark imagination, confronting pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strings of Fate: an Anthology of Stories, Poetry & Script by Various authors
    Strings of Fate: an Anthology of Stories, Poetry & Script - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580912 | ISBN 10: 1910580910

    Strings of Fate is an anthology of stories, poetry, and script revealing a tangled web of heartbreak, inner battles, self-growth, and adventure. The experiences these new writers bring to their work, woven like strings through these stories, invite y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pulp Idol Firsts 2023 by Various authors
    Pulp Idol Firsts 2023 - by Various authors

    £4.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580974 | ISBN 10: 191058097x

    Champion – Addae G   Runners Up – Chandana Das & Lee Stevenson  Finalists – Rachel Backland, Angela Cheveau, Patrick Graham, Matt Holland, Helen Jones, Phil Jones, Alisha Osman, Susan Stout & Amy Watkins.   Writing on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson
    Night Side of the River - by Jeanette Winterson

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787334175 | ISBN 10: 1787334171

    The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson.  A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various authors
    The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights - by Various authors

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781408727584 | ISBN 10: 1408727587

    FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES.  ‘Terrific – every bit as good as an MR James collection’ ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN  Featuring new and original storie ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett
    A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories - by Terry Pratchett

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529633 | ISBN 10: 0857529633

    Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black and white, a wizard cautiously entered a smoky tavern in the evil, ancient, foggy city of Morpork...   A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated co ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
    So Late in the Day - by Claire Keegan

    £8.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571382019 | ISBN 10: 0571382010

    An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster.  ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ The Times  After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Illuminations by Alan Moore
    Illuminations - by Alan Moore

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526643179 | ISBN 10: 1526643170

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality' NEIL GAIMAN  'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Normal Rules Don
    Normal Rules Don't Apply - by Kate Atkinson

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529183 | ISBN 10: 0857529188

    The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life.   In this first full collection si ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories by Various authors
    The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories - by Various authors

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878726 | ISBN 10: 1784878723

    Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.  From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Jap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Balkan Bombshells: Contemporary Women
    Balkan Bombshells: Contemporary Women's Writing from Serbia and Montenegro - by Will Firth (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781912545841 | ISBN 10: 1912545845

    A collection to whet the appetite of anyone wishing to learn more about a region rich in history, folklore and (her)stories. Telling it like a woman does not mean literature for women only: it provides an insight into half of humanity, a window onto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories by Various authors, with a Foreword by E.C. Osondu
    Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories - by Various authors, with a Foreword by E.C. Osondu

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804172735 | ISBN 10: 1804172731

    Tales from writers with Latinx, Caribbean, Asian, African, Arabic, North American, East European origins, and more, challenge the reader with stories that spill out into space, parallel realms or just hidden in plain sight. The stories explore the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction Writers by Various authors, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun
    Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction Writers - by Various authors, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun

    £12.95   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787588158 | ISBN 10: 1787588157

    Authors: Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun, Leah Cypess, Ronald D. Ferguson, Russell James, Alex Shvartsman, Amdi Silvestri, Allen Stroud, Eleanor R. Wood, Bao Shu, Zhao Haihong, Chen Zijun, Han Song, Wang Jinkang, He Xi   An impressive joint projec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell
    Cat Brushing - by Jane Campbell

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529421699 | ISBN 10: 1529421691

    "Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original"(Pandora Sykes) "A fierce and fascinating debut"(Lily King) I was told of an older woman who was asked by her granddaughter, 'Granny, when was the happiest time of your life?''I don't know,' she repl ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer by Soph Galustian
    No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer - by Soph Galustian

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804190081 | ISBN 10: 180419008x

    No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores Soph Galustian’s experiences of poverty, queerness, mental health, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Because I don
    Because I don't know what you mean and what you don't - by Josie Long

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838856083 | ISBN 10: 1838856080

    From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories   Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son’s best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Life, Queer Love: The Second Anthology by Matt Bates, Julie Bell, Sarah and Kate Beal (Editors)
    Queer Life, Queer Love: The Second Anthology - by Matt Bates, Julie Bell, Sarah and Kate Beal (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739123826 | ISBN 10: 1739123824

    Queer Life, Queer Love celebrates the best new queer writing from around the world, by both new and established writers and features voices across all narrative forms. The new book includes 44 stories, poems, essays and flash-fiction. This is writing ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Best of World SF: Volume 2 by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
    The Best of World SF: Volume 2 - by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781803280332 | ISBN 10: 1803280336

    Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. The second annual instalment to the 'rare and wonderful' (The Times) The Best of World SF Volume 1, this collection of twenty-nine stories, including ei ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl (Editor)
    New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - by Nisi Shawl (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786188588 | ISBN 10: 1786188589

    Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”  New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking — breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed by Various authors
    Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed - by Various authors

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349017143 | ISBN 10: 034901714x

    ‘Wonderful... all killer, no filler’ Red Magazine  A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday.  Featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Don ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
    Old Babes in the Wood - by Margaret Atwood

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784744854 | ISBN 10: 1784744859

    New stories of love and mischief from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.  Atwood's first new fiction publication since The Testaments, this deeply personal collection includes a stunning sequence that follows a marr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Candice Brathwaite (Editor)
    Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood - by Candice Brathwaite (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784878313 | ISBN 10: 1784878316

    A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.   'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow' MAYA ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Universe Remembers by Various authors
    The Universe Remembers - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580875 | ISBN 10: 1910580872

    The Universe Remembers is a collection that plays with fantasy, love, memory, grief, and a sprinkling of revenge.  The characters in these short stories and poems are haunted by ghosts, abuse, regrets and what they have lost, yet these stories h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blink That Killed The Eye by Anthony Anaxagorou
    The Blink That Killed The Eye - by Anthony Anaxagorou

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914344145 | ISBN 10: 1914344146

    A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, The Blink That Kills the Eye takes a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life, illuminating the characters, situations, emotions and dilemmas that pour into even the most ordinary existences.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Surface/Below: A Collection of New Writing by Various authors
    Surface/Below: A Collection of New Writing - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910580554 | ISBN 10: 1910580554

    "By turns masterful, surprising and funny this collection of new Liverpool voices will keep you on your toes. Written under the altogether unreal conditions of a post-pandemic world, it reflects the best kind of artistic reaction to shared trauma, ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
    Bliss Montage - by Ling Ma

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911231356 | ISBN 10: 1911231359

    Shortlisted, The Story Prize, United States, 2022  What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?  In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli (Editors)
    Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry - by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781551529011 | ISBN 10: 1551529017

    The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season by Various authors
    Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780712354523 | ISBN 10: 0712354522

    The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day. In a century during which the role of women in society changed radically, their fictional heroines highlight ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
    Tales from the Inner City - by Shaun Tan

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529504378 | ISBN 10: 1529504376

    A stunningly presented collection of twenty-five illustrated short stories exploring the relationship between humans and animals, from award-winning visual storyteller Shaun Tan.   Where can we live if not in each other's shadow? World-renowned ar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Virago Book of Witches by Shahrukh Husain
    The Virago Book of Witches - by Shahrukh Husain

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349016986 | ISBN 10: 0349016984

    A collection of more than fifty stories about witches from around the world.  There are tales of banshees, crones and beauties in disguise from China, Siberia, the Caribbean, Armenia, Portugal and Australia. The characters featured include Italy’s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women and Love by Miriam Burke
    Women and Love - by Miriam Burke

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913724818 | ISBN 10: 1913724816

    'I couldn’t sleep that night; our conversation was like a trapped bird flying around inside my head. The next morning, I texted to say I wouldn’t be coming back. I lied about having to return to my country to nurse a sick relative. I couldn’t b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad by Damilare Kuku
    Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad - by Damilare Kuku

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800751910 | ISBN 10: 1800751915

    One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband’s penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
    Dead-End Memories - by Banana Yoshimoto

    £20.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781640093690 | ISBN 10: 1640093699

    Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life.   First published in Japan ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Walls Collapse: Stories of Separation by Sarah Cleave and Will Forrester (editors)
    All Walls Collapse: Stories of Separation - by Sarah Cleave and Will Forrester (editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912697571 | ISBN 10: 1912697572

    The history of walls – as a way to keep people in or out – is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them. From the Berlin Wall to the U.S.-Mexico border, the short stories in this collection take place across thousands ... more

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  • Cover image of book Figurehead by Carly Holmes
    Figurehead - by Carly Holmes

    £10.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914595059 | ISBN 10: 191459505x

    'Beneath her soft skin covering, my mother was once made of twigs and branches. Sometimes in the autumn I swear there was a gleam of berry in her eye, a sloe-shine peep between the thorny tangle of her lashes.’   In this debut collectio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cast A Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley (Editors)
    Cast A Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime - by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley (Editors)

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912905584 | ISBN 10: 1912905582

    20 original stories commissioned for this new volume... A striking collection of the widest range of crime short stories from contemporary urban thriller to historical rural mystery and the speculative and uncanny.  Includes stories from Tiff ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
    Life Ceremony - by Sayaka Murata

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787371 | ISBN 10: 1783787376

    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 over the husband’s dislike of clothes and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Iain McIntosh
    Tiny Tales - by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Iain McIntosh

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781846975738 | ISBN 10: 1846975735

    Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences – or even a page or two – we can see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than in a novel.  In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, amb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Saki
    Saki's Cats - by Saki

    £6.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913724177 | ISBN 10: 1913724174

    Saki’s Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short story.   ‘Tobermory’, one of Saki’s most famous pieces, demonstrates the danger that would ensue from granting cats the power of speech ... more

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  • Cover image of book Catalyst by Various authors, illustrated by Ayoola Solarin
    Catalyst - by Various authors, illustrated by Ayoola Solarin

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914224027 | ISBN 10: 1914224027

    Stories by Asia Alfasi, Charlotte Bailey, Jason Chuang, Dominique Duong, Catherine Anyango Grünewald, Shuning Ji, Pris Lemons, Sonia Leong, Calico N.M., Tyrell Osborne and Woodrow Phoenix.  Collecting stories from a range of artists of colou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ruin by Cara Hoffman
    Ruin - by Cara Hoffman

    £13.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781629639291 | ISBN 10: 162963929x

    A little girl who disguises herself as an old man, an addict who collects dollhouse furniture, a crime reporter confronted by a talking dog, a painter trying to prove the non-existence of god, and lovers in a penal colony who communicate through tech ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories by Nana Nkweti
    Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories - by Nana Nkweti

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911648277 | ISBN 10: 1911648276

    An adoptee leverages her new parents to fast track her fortunes. A sword-wielding teenager navigates a crush at Comic-Con. A jaded PR man tries to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa. A mother and daughter search for spiritual meaning in the midst ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story by John Freeman (Editor)
    The Penguin Book Of The Modern American Short Story - by John Freeman (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781984877826 | ISBN 10: 1984877828

    A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Polluted Sex by Lauren Foley
    Polluted Sex - by Lauren Foley

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910312919 | ISBN 10: 1910312916

    "Lauren Foley is a gifted, fearless writer. These vivid, dynamic stories range from the visceral to the experimental with moments of intense, expressive lyricism. They announce a strong new voice on the literary scene, bound to make her presence felt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Of Myths and Mothers: Short Stories by Various authors
    Of Myths and Mothers: Short Stories - by Various authors

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913211783 | ISBN 10: 1913211789

    Folklore and futurism: these stories question everything from the guest worker economy to childbirth as the world collapses.   Follow hairpin turns into the remote hillsides of North Yorkshire, where two boys take a holiday with their besom-w ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by Various authors
    My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women - by Various authors

    £12.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529422214 | ISBN 10: 1529422213

    “My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream”   A woman’s fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of qu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Test Signal: A Northern Anthology of New Writing by Nathan Connolly (Editor)
    Test Signal: A Northern Anthology of New Writing - by Nathan Connolly (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526630902 | ISBN 10: 1526630907

    A ground-breaking anthology of the best contemporary northern writing from Dead Ink and Bloomsbury, showcasing the wealth of literary talent in the North of England.  'Test Signal ... is testament to the fact that there is no singular prescri ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
    First Person Singular - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529113594 | ISBN 10: 1529113598

    A mindbending new collection of short stories from the unique, internationally acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.  THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd
    The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies - by Jo Lloyd

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800750128 | ISBN 10: 1800750129

    Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize   Whether seeking knowledge, riches, or a better life, the characters in these stories are united by a quest for lasting value, as they ask how we should treat our world, our work, our selves, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
    I, Nerd - by Max Sydney Smith

    £5.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781916413672 | ISBN 10: 1916413676

    Robin plays the Game in a club on the top floor of a converted warehouse. Every week Robin’s Halflings do table top battle against Daemons, Dwarves, Elves, Orcs, Humans and the forces of Undead. And every week he loses.   But when the twin w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Galatea: A Short Story by Madeline Miller
    Galatea: A Short Story - by Madeline Miller

    £6.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526652065 | ISBN 10: 1526652064

    From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.  **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller**  In ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who
    Who's Loving You : Love Stories by Women of Colour - by Sareeta Domingo (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781409193746 | ISBN 10: 1409193748

    "A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers."(Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie.) Lost love. Forbidden Love. Unrequited love. Tenderness. Desire. Ro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
    The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - by Mariana Enriquez

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783788217 | ISBN 10: 1783788216

    "Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train"(Dave Eggers) Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murdero ... more

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  • Cover image of book Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
    Milk Blood Heat - by Dantiel W. Moniz

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838950606 | ISBN 10: 1838950605

    "A seething excavation of want and human error"(Raven Leilani, author of Luster) "Glorious, ecstatic, devastating… A gorgeous debut from a wickedly talented new author"(Lauren Groff, author of Florida) "Sultry, dark, thick with the heat of bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
    The Awkward Black Man - by Walter Mosley

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474623643 | ISBN 10: 1474623646

    Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queer Life, Queer Love: An Anthology by Golnoush Nour, Matt Bates and Sarah & Kate Beal (Editors)
    Queer Life, Queer Love: An Anthology - by Golnoush Nour, Matt Bates and Sarah & Kate Beal (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838110161 | ISBN 10: 183811016x

    All aspects of the queer experience is reflected in this sparkling collection.  The anthology comprises 42 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Que ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tongues and Bellies by The Whole Kahani
    Tongues and Bellies - by The Whole Kahani

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838060312 | ISBN 10: 1838060316

    A third collection of short-form stories from The Whole Kahani. The mood is mischievous and ingenious as characters invent and seek half-hidden truths and half-forgotten memories. From these pages floats a mouth-watering aroma of cherished childhood ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine (Editors)
    The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic - by New York Times Magazine (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781398502185 | ISBN 10: 1398502189

    A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas by Syd Moore
    The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas - by Syd Moore

    £6.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786079794 | ISBN 10: 1786079798

    From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come twelve stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena.   As the dark winter nights get longer, prepare to lose yourself in the world ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year
    The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 - by Jonathan Strahan (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781534449626 | ISBN 10: 1534449620

    The most celebrated science fiction short story editor of our time, multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the definitive collection of best short science fiction of 2021.   With short works from some o ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noel by Various authors
    A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noel - by Various authors

    £12.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784877675 | ISBN 10: 1784877670

    Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas tales.  Have yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas... Of visions and prophesies seen in dark, dark woods. Of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories by Jessica Harrison (Editor)
    The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories - by Jessica Harrison (Editor)

    £12.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241455654 | ISBN 10: 0241455650

    The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition.  This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Mountain and Other Stories by Gerry Adams
    Black Mountain and Other Stories - by Gerry Adams

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781847176301 | ISBN 10: 1847176305

    In this collection, one of Ireland's best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendship.  These are portraits of Ireland, and especially Belfast, old and new, in times of struggle and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of the Ruins by Preston Grassmann (Editor)
    Out of the Ruins - by Preston Grassmann (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789097399 | ISBN 10: 1789097398

    This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks, what would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?  Featuring stories from China Mieville, Emily St John Ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Various authors
    Black Sci-Fi Short Stories - by Various authors

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781839644801 | ISBN 10: 183964480x

    A deluxe edition of new writing and neglected perspectives.  Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction by Becca Parkinson & Vera Juliusdottir (Editors)
    The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction - by Becca Parkinson & Vera Juliusdottir (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910974032 | ISBN 10: 191097403x

    Featuring Friðgeir Einarsson, Kristín Eiríksdóttir, Þórarinn Eldjárn, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Björn Halldórsson, Fríða Ísberg, Auður Jónsdóttir, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, Andri Snær Magnason & Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson  Re ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction by Tarun K. Saint (Editor)
    New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction - by Tarun K. Saint (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473228689 | ISBN 10: 1473228689

    The citizens of Karachi wake up and discover the sea missing from their shores, the last Parsi on Earth must escape to other worlds when debt collectors come knocking, and a family visiting a Partition-themed park gets more entertainment than they ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima
    Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - by Kyoko Nakajima

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908745965 | ISBN 10: 1908745967

    '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 strokes'.  So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)
    The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction - by Maya Abu Al-Hayat (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912697427 | ISBN 10: 1912697424

    Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Anas Abu Rahma, Liana Badr, Ahlam Bsharat, Ameer Hamad, Khaled Hourani, Ahmad Jaber, Ziad Khadash, Ibrahim Nasrallah & Mahmoud Shukair   A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, u ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Quarry by Ben Halls
    The Quarry - by Ben Halls

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349701103 | ISBN 10: 0349701105

    You can see it in them; all that anger inside, it's toxic. Throw some drink into it and everything bubbles over. People say that they never see it coming, the swing of the fist that kicks it all off, but I can tell.   In these interconnected shor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women
    Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 - by Melissa Edmundson (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912766444 | ISBN 10: 1912766442

    Women’s Weird 2 contains thirteen remarkably chilling stories originally published from 1891 to 1937, by women authors from the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, India and Australia.   Read thoroughly frightening fiction by the most unexpected ... more

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  • Cover image of book Supporting Cast by Kit de Waal
    Supporting Cast - by Kit de Waal

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241973424 | ISBN 10: 0241973422

    ***From the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon***  As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves pri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Algorithm Party by Roy
    Algorithm Party - by Roy

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912722907 | ISBN 10: 1912722909

    Algorithm Party is a debut publication in which an utterly original, fully-formed literary voice announces itself, somehow full of life, on the page.   Liverpool’s spoken-word performer Roy’s deft, articulate and startlingly observed stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why the Moon Travels by Oein DeBhairduin, illustrated by Leanne McDonagh
    Why the Moon Travels - by Oein DeBhairduin, illustrated by Leanne McDonagh

    £11.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916493506 | ISBN 10: 1916493505

    Why the Moon Travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community.   Brave vixens, prophetic owls and stalwart horses live alongside the human characters as guides, protectors, friends and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction by Maesy Ang and Teddy W. Kusuma (Editors)
    The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction - by Maesy Ang and Teddy W. Kusuma (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697328 | ISBN 10: 1912697327

    Featuring: utiuts ., Sabda Armandio, Hanna Fransisca, Cyntha Hariadi, Afrizal Malna, Dewi Kharisma Michellia, Ratri Ninditya, Yusi Avianto Pareanom, Ben Sohib & Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie   A group of senior citizens set out to visit an amus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
    Sudden Traveller - by Sarah Hall

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571345052 | ISBN 10: 0571345050

    *WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE *SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE  A Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the Year  In Turkish fores ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best British Short Stories 2020 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    Best British Short Stories 2020 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784632359 | ISBN 10: 178463235x

    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or, more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories publishe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa by Various authors
    Hotel Africa: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780265056 | ISBN 10: 1780265050

    Check-in... To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday's guests still lurk.   Check-in... Lovers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
    Grand Union: Stories - by Zadie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241983126 | ISBN 10: 0241983126

    The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth.  In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
    Things We Say in the Dark - by Kirsty Logan

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529111286 | ISBN 10: 1529111285

    So here we go, into the dark.  Some things can’t be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Various authors
    Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold - by Various authors

    £12.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349013596 | ISBN 10: 0349013594

    Dark, potent and uncanny, Hag bursts with the untold stories of our Isles, captured in voices as varied as they are vivid.   Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost chil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton (Editor)
    Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written - by Paul Merton (Editor)

    £15.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838939021 | ISBN 10: 1838939024

    The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.   80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Foxfire, Wolfskin & Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie
    Foxfire, Wolfskin & Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women - by Sharon Blackie

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912836246 | ISBN 10: 1912836246

    ‘She lived fully, my fox, and I envied her with all my heart. I wanted to dance with her, sister or lover, across the snow-clad vastness of this land. Together, we’d create the Northern Lights. For that is what foxes do – racing over the fells, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786077769 | ISBN 10: 1786077760

    A stunning new story collection from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, acclaimed author of Kintu and winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Mak ... more

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  • Cover image of book Episodes: A Collection by Christopher Priest
    Episodes: A Collection - by Christopher Priest

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473200630 | ISBN 10: 1473200636

    Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from the horrific to th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction by Jin Li and Dai Congrong (Editors)
    The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction - by Jin Li and Dai Congrong (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697274 | ISBN 10: 1912697270

    Featuring Wang Anyi, Xiao Bai, Shen Dacheng, Chen Danyan, Cai Jun, Chen Qiufan, Xia Shang, Teng Xiaolan, Fu Yuehui & Wang Zhanhei  As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book... ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories by Golnoosh Nour
    The Ministry of Guidance - and Other Stories - by Golnoosh Nour

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916129283 | ISBN 10: 1916129285

    Set mostly in Iran, but making forays to London, Germany, and the transit area of a Ukrainian airport, the stories are brilliantly deft in summoning up the dilemmas of their protagonists, be they characters who are kicking against the confines of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
    Salt Slow - by Julia Armfield

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529012590 | ISBN 10: 1529012597

    THE ELECTRIFYING DEBUT FROM THE WINNER OF THE WHITE REVIEW SHORT STORY PRIZE 2018   In her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores bodies and the bodily, mapping the skin and bones of her character ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton
    Where The Wild Ladies Are - by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911284383 | ISBN 10: 191128438x

    Winner of an English PEN Award Named a ‘new book you need to read in 2020‘ by i-D Named a ‘best book of the year so far‘ by Tatler  Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are Attempting To Survive Our Time by A L Kennedy
    We Are Attempting To Survive Our Time - by A L Kennedy

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787331822 | ISBN 10: 1787331822

    A master-class in the short story, from the Costa Book Award winning author of Day.  A. L. Kennedy’s new collection of stories show us women and men wrestling with the lives they have been given and the times spinning out around them. Humou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resist: Stories of Uprising 2 by Ra Page (Editor)
    Resist: Stories of Uprising 2 - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697311 | ISBN 10: 1912697319

    Featuring Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, David Lambert, Anna Lewis, Irfan Master, Donny O'Rourke, Kamila Shamsie, Bidisha SK Mamata, Kim Squi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women
    Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 - by Melissa Edmundson (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912766246 | ISBN 10: 1912766248

    Early Weird fiction embraces the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy and the Gothic, and was explored with enthusiasm by many women writers in the United Kingdom and in the USA in the late Victorian period and in the early twentieth centur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism & Dragons by Elly Blue (Editor)
    Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism & Dragons - by Elly Blue (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781621060475 | ISBN 10: 1621060470

    From the great, winged, fire-breathing lizards of the west to the wise, flying serpents of the east, dragons play a powerful role in our myths and imaginations.  In these fourteen stories and one comic, bicyclists encounter a diversity of dragon ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not So Stories by David Thomas Moore (Editor)
    Not So Stories - by David Thomas Moore (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781087800 | ISBN 10: 1781087806

    Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or H ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lake Like a Mirror: Stories by Ho Sok Fong
    Lake Like a Mirror: Stories - by Ho Sok Fong

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846276903 | ISBN 10: 184627690x

    A portrait of Malaysian society in nine stories, by an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'.   Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Stars: Sixteen Stories from the New Frontiers of Chinese Science Fiction by Edited and translated by Ken Liu
    Broken Stars: Sixteen Stories from the New Frontiers of Chinese Science Fiction - by Edited and translated by Ken Liu

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788548120 | ISBN 10: 1788548124

    A new anthology of Chinese short-fiction by award winning author Ken Liu.  Here are sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking SFF writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu.  In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories by Kate Atkinson
    Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories - by Kate Atkinson

    £6.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857527127 | ISBN 10: 0857527126

    'Lucy would have challenged anyone not to cry at the sight of their child in a Nativity Play. Even a sheepish Maude, even a scowling Beatrice - currently attempting a Chinese burn on an adjacent angel. A shepherd shouted something incomprehensible to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Caine Prize for African Writing 2019 Shortlist by Various authors
    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2019 Shortlist - by Various authors

    £4.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780265209 | ISBN 10: 1780265204

    Now in its twentieth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.  This collection brings together t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    Manchester Happened - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786075895 | ISBN 10: 178607589x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019  AN AMBITIOUS AND ASSURED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF KINTU.  If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resist: Stories of Uprising by Ra Page (Editor)
    Resist: Stories of Uprising - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912697076 | ISBN 10: 1912697076

    Featuring Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Jude Brown, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Uschi Gatward, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Nikita Lalwani, Zoe Lambert, Anna Lewis, Irfan Master, Donny O'Rourke, Kamila Shamsie, Bidisha SK Mamata, Karline Sm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink by John Miller (Editor)
    Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink - by John Miller (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780712353304 | ISBN 10: 0712353305

    Uncovering the history of the tattoo in classic fiction for the first time, this original selection depicts the tattoo as a catalyst for scandal in society, as a symbol for an unknowable supernatural force, and as transcendent living art merging the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Palestine +100: Stories From a Century After the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini (Editor)
    Palestine +100: Stories From a Century After the Nakba - by Basma Ghalayini (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974445 | ISBN 10: 1910974447

    STORIES FROM A CENTURY AFTER THE NAKBA   Palestine +100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How mi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    Friday Black - by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787476004 | ISBN 10: 1787476006

    Racism, but “managed” through virtual reality  Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng  Happiness, but pharmacological  Love, despite everything  Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Stories by William Trevor
    Last Stories - by William Trevor

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241337783 | ISBN 10: 024133778x

    "What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate"(Elizabeth Strout) In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William ... more

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  • Cover image of book The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 by Nikki Bedi (Editor)
    The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 - by Nikki Bedi (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912697229 | ISBN 10: 191269722x

    Featuring Lucy Caldwell, Lynda Clark, Jacqueline Crooks, Tamsin Grey & Jo Lloyd.  Including the winning story, 'The Invisible' by Jo Lloyd!  A young boy takes delight in his mother’s ability to shapeshift from one animal to another, only real ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Collection of New Stories Inspired by Myth & Legend by Various authors
    These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Collection of New Stories Inspired by Myth & Legend - by Various authors

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910907405 | ISBN 10: 1910907405

    From the mythical Tintagel to mysterious Stonehenge... A collection of magical short stories from Edward Carey, Sarah Hall, Paul Kingsnorth, Alison MacLeod, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Sarah Moss, Fiona Mozley and Adam Thorpe inspired by English Heritage s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
    The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472154125 | ISBN 10: 1472154126

    A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best British Short Stories 2019 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    Best British Short Stories 2019 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784631857 | ISBN 10: 178463185x

    The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
    Heads of the Colored People - by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784706586 | ISBN 10: 1784706582

    In this crackling debut collection Nafissa Thompson-Spires interrogates our supposedly post-racial era. To wicked and devastating effect she exposes the violence, both external and self-inflicted, that threatens black Americans, no matter their appar ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Okorie
    This Hostel Life - by Melatu Uche Okorie

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349012902 | ISBN 10: 0349012903

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR  This Hostel Life tells the stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of women queuing for basic supplies in an Irish direct prov ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's - by Lisa Blower

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408160 | ISBN 10: 1912408163

    With a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower strikes a new chord in regional and working-class fiction.  This fabulous collection of her award-winning short stories is dominated by the working-class matriarch. From the wise, witty and outsp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl, Balancing by Helen Dumore
    Girl, Balancing - by Helen Dumore

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090515 | ISBN 10: 1786090511

    Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore.   Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she expl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jellyfish by Janice Galloway
    Jellyfish - by Janice Galloway

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781847086679 | ISBN 10: 1847086675

    In this powerful collection, Janice Galloway takes on David Lodge's assertion that 'literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round'. Her multi-layered stories not only explore sex and sexuality, b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction by Fereshteh Ahmadi (Editor)
    The Book of Tehran: A City in Short Fiction - by Fereshteh Ahmadi (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974247 | ISBN 10: 1910974242

    Featuring Atoosa Afshin-Navid, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Kourosh Asadi, Azardokht Bahrami, Hamed Habibi, Mohammad Hosseini, Amir-Hossein Khorshidfar, Payam Nasser, Goli Taraghi & Mohammad Tolouei   Foreword by Orkideh Behrouzan.  A city of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher (Editor)
    The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story - by Philip Hensher (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141986210 | ISBN 10: 0141986212

    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 lack of places in which they can be published, the chall ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
    How to Love a Jamaican - by Alexia Arthurs

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509883622 | ISBN 10: 1509883622

    "In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love."(Zadie Smith) Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret – these are the tensions at the heart of Alexia Arthurs’ debut book about Jamaican im ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction by Ralph Cormack (Editor)
    The Book of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction - by Ralph Cormack (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910974254 | ISBN 10: 1910974250

    Featuring Hassan Abdel Mawgoud, Eman Abdelrahim, Nael Eltoukhy, Areej Gamal, Hatem Hafez, Hend Jaʿfar, Nahla Karam, Mohamed Kheir, Ahmed Naji & Mohamed Salah al-Azab.   A police officer tortures one last suspect in the most important assignment ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amsterdam Noir by René Appel and Josh Pachter (Editors)
    Amsterdam Noir - by René Appel and Josh Pachter (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781617756146 | ISBN 10: 1617756148

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.  Brand-new st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pulp Idol Firsts 2019 by Various authors
    Pulp Idol Firsts 2019 - by Various authors

    £4.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910580356 | ISBN 10: 191058035x

    Pulp Idol is a novel writing competition run by Writing on the Wall, Liverpool's longest running writing and literary organisation. Many new novelists, including Ariel Kahn - Raising Sparks, James Rice - Alice and the Fly, John Donoghue - The Death's ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Were Always Here: A Queer Words Anthology by Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson (Editors)
    We Were Always Here: A Queer Words Anthology - by Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson (Editors)

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912489145 | ISBN 10: 1912489147

    From drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. By turns serious and fantastical, hilarious and confrontational, We Were Always Here addresses the fears, mys ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inside Pale Eyes: A Dream Noir by Dave Ward, illustrated by Bryan Biggs
    Inside Pale Eyes: A Dream Noir - by Dave Ward, illustrated by Bryan Biggs

    £5.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781908577856 | ISBN 10: 1908577851

    A fractured narrative of grey twilight where half-glimpsed figures flicker through a deserted city-scape. Connection is everything, but nobody connects.  The flowers smell of passion. Of dust. Of dirt. Of hurt that floods a siren’s dirge up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
    Her Body And Other Parties - by Carmen Maria Machado

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781781259535 | ISBN 10: 1781259534

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018   A prize-winning, genre-bending collection of short stories which has already achieved cult status.   In her provocative debu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
    Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales - by P. D. James

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571339884 | ISBN 10: 0571339883

    The acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing with deep psychological insight to create gripping, suspenseful tales. The Mistletoe Murder and Other Sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lagos Noir by Chris Abani (Editor)
    Lagos Noir - by Chris Abani (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115731 | ISBN 10: 1911115731

    An uncompromising anthology of noir stories set in the tumultuous metropolis, Lagos, written by some of the most versatile and fascinating Nigerian authors working today. Fans of the darker side of literature will revel in these tales from Nigeria’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Long
    How Long 'til Black Future Month? - by N. K. Jemisin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780356512549 | ISBN 10: 0356512541

    Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection.   N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson
    Skin Folk - by Nalo Hopkinson

    £15.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781504052764 | ISBN 10: 1504052765

    World Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that “combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling,” by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal).  In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Travelling in the Dark by Emma Timpany
    Travelling in the Dark - by Emma Timpany

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912054480 | ISBN 10: 1912054485

    She left for a reason but now she must return home and face her past.   Travelling back to her home town with her young son, Sarah is ready to face up to what she ran away from ten years ago.   As delays and diversions force her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
    Bottled Goods - by Sophie van Llewyn

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912054305 | ISBN 10: 1912054302

    Longlisted for The People’s Book Prize.   Alina’s life was on the right track, until the secret service knocked on her door.   When Alina’s brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book Workers
    Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain - by Michael Rosen (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780691175348 | ISBN 10: 0691175349

    A collection of political tales — first published in British workers’ magazines — selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen.  In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditio ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Vintage Christmas by Various authors
    A Vintage Christmas - by Various authors

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784875077 | ISBN 10: 1784875074

    The most wonderful time of the year is just around the corner. Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales - the perfect festive gift for any reader.   'There seems a magic in the very name of Christm ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories by Various authors
    Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910463864 | ISBN 10: 1910463868

    A rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories by Mark Haddon, Jeanette Winterson, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Perry, Stuart Evers, Kate Clanchy, Kamila Shamsie and Max Porter.  Rooted in place, slipping between worlds – a ri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
    Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days - by Jeanette Winterson

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784709020 | ISBN 10: 1784709026

    Everybody loves a Christmas story. The tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition of celebration, sharing and giving. And what better way to do that than with a story?   For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Chris ... more

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  • Cover image of book Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
    Men Without Women - by Haruki Murakami

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705374 | ISBN 10: 1784705373

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious ... more

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  • Cover image of book In White Ink by Elske Rahill
    In White Ink - by Elske Rahill

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786691064 | ISBN 10: 178669106x

    Motherhood, nurture and violence – these are the themes of Elske Rahill's remarkable first collection, In White Ink. Rahill brings to life the psychological and physical reality of mothering, pregnancy and childbirth in ways that few others writers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best British Short Stories 2018 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    Best British Short Stories 2018 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784631369 | ISBN 10: 1784631361

    The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year.  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short storie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 by Various authors
    Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780264615 | ISBN 10: 1780264615

    Edited by Chris Brazier and The Caine Prize.   Now in its nineteenth year the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories by Susan Sontag
    Stories - by Susan Sontag

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241982716 | ISBN 10: 0241982715

    The complete short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century - collected together for the first time   Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ayiti by Roxane Gay
    Ayiti - by Roxane Gay

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472154170 | ISBN 10: 1472154177

    From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience.   In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins
    The Graybar Hotel - by Curtis Dawkins

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786891136 | ISBN 10: 1786891131

    An unflinching and deeply moving collection of stories by a debut writer currently serving a life sentence in Michigan’s prison system. His stories form a vivid portrait of prison life, painted from behind bars.   A man sits collect-calling ... more

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  • Cover image of book Madame Zero by Sarah Hall
    Madame Zero - by Sarah Hall

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571290024 | ISBN 10: 0571290027

    She is running and becoming smaller, running and becoming smaller, running in the light of the reddening sun, the red of her hair and her coat falling, the red of her fur and her body loosening. Running. Holding behind her a sudden, brazen object, wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales from a Master
    Tales from a Master's Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote - by Various authors

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784871475 | ISBN 10: 1784871478

    When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote. Now ten of our best contemporary authors and James enthusiasts have written new short stories based on these 'germs' of ideas. Di ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
    All the Fabulous Beasts - by Priya Sharma

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781988964027 | ISBN 10: 1988964024

    The debut short story collection from acclaimed U.K. writer Priya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell
    The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night - by Jen Campbell

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473653559 | ISBN 10: 147365355x

    Modern fairy tales of magic, outsiders and lost souls from bestselling author and acclaimed book vlogger Jen Campbell.  'These days, you can find anything you need at the click of a button. That's why I bought her heart online.'  Spi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction by Orsola Casagrande (Editor)
    The Book of Havana: A City in Short Fiction - by Orsola Casagrande (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910974018 | ISBN 10: 1910974013

    Featuring Daniel Chavarria, Irina J. Davidenko, Eduardo del Llano, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Jorge Enrique Lage, Laidi Fernández de Juan, Eduardo Heras León, Cinthia R. Paredes, Francisco López Sacha & Eduardo Angel Santiesteban   When a his ... more

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  • Cover image of book 24 Stories of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire by Kathy Burke (Editor)
    24 Stories of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire - by Kathy Burke (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783525867 | ISBN 10: 178352586x

    On the night of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, killing at least 72 people and injuring many more. An entire community was destroyed. For many people affected by this tragedy, the psychological scars may nev ... more

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  • Cover image of book What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
    What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky - by Lesley Nneka Arimah

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472239631 | ISBN 10: 1472239636

    A stunning collection of short stories from Caine-Prize shortlisted and Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky has been described as 'luminous' (Roxane Gay) 'mesmerising' (Ayobami Adebayo) ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bogota 39: New Voices from Latin America by Various authors
    Bogota 39: New Voices from Latin America - by Various authors

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786073334 | ISBN 10: 1786073331

    An anthology of short stories by thirty-nine of the best Latin American writers under forty, from fifteen countries. The featured authors are: Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Frank Báez, Natalia Borges Polesso, Giuseppe Caputo, Juan Cárdenas, Mauro Javier ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans by Nicholas Laughlin (Editor)
    So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans - by Nicholas Laughlin (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846592072 | ISBN 10: 1846592070

    So Many Islands breaks out bold new writing from the distant shores of countries in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific oceans. Here you will find poems about revolution and protest. You will be transported to Marakei, ‘the women’s i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Protest! Stories of Resistance by Ra Page (Editor)
    Protest! Stories of Resistance - by Ra Page (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910974438 | ISBN 10: 1910974439

    Whatever happened to British protest?  For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments by Ann Quin
    The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments - by Ann Quin

    £10.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911508144 | ISBN 10: 1911508148

    This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge.  The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    The Refugees - by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472153784 | ISBN 10: 1472153782

    The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.  In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fireworks by Angela Carter
    Fireworks - by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784872984 | ISBN 10: 1784872989

    `I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.'   So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achiev ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: And Other Stories from the North by Sjon and Ted Hodgkinson (Editors)
    The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: And Other Stories from the North - by Sjon and Ted Hodgkinson (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782273820 | ISBN 10: 1782273824

    This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrillin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Refugee Tales: Volume II by David Herd  & Anna Pincus (Editors)
    Refugee Tales: Volume II - by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910974308 | ISBN 10: 1910974307

    Featuring Caroline Bergvall, Josh Cohen, Ian Duhig, Rachel Holmes, Jackie Kay, Olivia Laing, Helen Macdonald, Neel Mukherjee, Alex Preston, Kamila Shamsie & Marina Warner  Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction by Becca Parkinson & Gvantsa Jobava (Editors)
    The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction - by Becca Parkinson & Gvantsa Jobava (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910974315 | ISBN 10: 1910974315

    Featuring Ina Archuashvili, Gela Chkvanava, Erekle Deisadze, Shota Iatashvili, Dato Kardava, Lado Kilasonia, Zviad Kvaratskhelia, Bacho Kvirtia, Iva Pezuashvili & Rusudan Rukhadze   A rookie reporter, searching for his first big story, re-open ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best European Fiction 2018 by Alex Andriesse (Editor)
    Best European Fiction 2018 - by Alex Andriesse (Editor)

    £13.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781943150366 | ISBN 10: 1943150362

    Since its inaugural appearance in 2010, Best European Fiction has become an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the ninth installment of the series, the anthology continues ... more

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  • Cover image of book That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
    That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written - by David Miller (Editor)

    £15.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784080051 | ISBN 10: 1784080055

    Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blind Owl and Other Stories by Sadeq Hedayat
    The Blind Owl and Other Stories - by Sadeq Hedayat

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780714544588 | ISBN 10: 0714544582

    Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story – an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader’s subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 by Joanna Trollope (Editor)
    The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 - by Joanna Trollope (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910974353 | ISBN 10: 1910974358

    Featuring Will Eaves, Jenni Fagan, Cynan Jones, Benjamin Markovits & Helen Oyeyemi INCLUDING THE WINNING STORY, 'THE EDGE OF THE SHOAL', BY CYNAN JONES   There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often fin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa by Efemia Chela (Editor)
    Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa - by Efemia Chela (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780264059 | ISBN 10: 1780264054

    Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories. This is the fourth in the SSDA collection of anthologies whic ... more

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  • Cover image of book Worlds from the Word
    Worlds from the Word's End - by Joanna Walsh

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911508106 | ISBN 10: 1911508105

    This collection cements Joanna Walsh’s reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh’s stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In ‘Like a Fish Needs a...’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love by Various authors
    How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473649453 | ISBN 10: 1473649455

    Stories by Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla, and D.W. Wilson.  A brilliant collection of seven original stories by award-winning authors, inspired by different concepts of love.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex & Death: Stories by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs (Editor)
    Sex & Death: Stories - by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571322442 | ISBN 10: 0571322441

    How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the governing drives, our two greatest themes.   In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, acclaimed writers probe the nature of, and connection between two of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best British Short Stories 2017 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    Best British Short Stories 2017 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784631123 | ISBN 10: 1784631124

    The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
    Men Without Women - by Haruki Murakami

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911215370 | ISBN 10: 191121537x

    'I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.'   Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dancing with Trees: Eco-Tales from the British Isles by Allison Galbraith and Alette J. Willis
    Dancing with Trees: Eco-Tales from the British Isles - by Allison Galbraith and Alette J. Willis

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780750978873 | ISBN 10: 0750978872

    The oral storytelling traditions of the British Isles have connected people to the land and to their plant and animal neighbours for centuries. This collection brings together story wisdom from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland that speaks to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
    There Are Little Kingdoms - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890177 | ISBN 10: 1786890178

    This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reache ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi
    The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea - by Bandi

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257548 | ISBN 10: 178125754x

    In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime.  Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 20 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fire. by Elizabeth Hand
    Fire. - by Elizabeth Hand

    £11.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781629632346 | ISBN 10: 1629632341

    The title story, “Fire.” written especially for this volume, is a harrowing postapocalyptic adventure in a world threatened by global conflagration. Based on Hand’s real-life experience as a participant in a governmental climate change think ta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Someone Always Robs the Poor by Carl MacDougall
    Someone Always Robs the Poor - by Carl MacDougall

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911332138 | ISBN 10: 1911332139

    A long-awaited new collection of stories from one of Scotland’s most acclaimed writers.   A young man returns from London, facing the prospect of reunion with a young daughter he’s never met. A woman recounts her family’s doomed attempt ... more

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  • Cover image of book What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
    What is Not Yours is Not Yours - by Helen Oyeyemi

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447299394 | ISBN 10: 1447299396

    The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki
    Spring Garden - by Tomoka Shibasaki

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782272700 | ISBN 10: 1782272704

    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope.   Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods by Tracy Chevalier (Editor)
    Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods - by Tracy Chevalier (Editor)

    £10.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781908041326 | ISBN 10: 1908041323

    A charming collection of stories and fables inspired by Britain's nineteen species of native trees, written by nineteen of Britain's leading authors.  Why Willows Weep is edited by Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by Diane Williams
    Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine - by Diane Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909585201 | ISBN 10: 1909585203

    Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize   Chosen as a Book of the Year in the New Statesman by Eimear McBride and John Mullan  Diane Williams has been publishing her wholly distinctive short fiction in the US for the past qu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion by Hassan Blasim (Editor)
    Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion - by Hassan Blasim (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583669 | ISBN 10: 1905583664

    Featuring Anoud, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili & Khalid Kaki   Iraq + 100 poses a question to ten Iraqi writers: what might your country look like in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love by Various authors
    How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love - by Various authors

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473649422 | ISBN 10: 1473649420

    A brilliant collection of seven original stories inspired by different concepts of love, by seven award-winning authors. "No one has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."(Zelda Fitzgerald) Love is not a singular concept. &n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam (Editors)
    The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction - by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583805 | ISBN 10: 190558380x

    Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)
    1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution - by Boris Dralyuk (Translated and selected by)

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782272144 | ISBN 10: 1782272143

    'This is the last of you, old world - soon we'll smash you to bits.'  The passionate voices of radicals, dreamers, workers, aristocrats, satirists and romantics fill these electrifying poems and prose pieces, written between 1917 and 1919 in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2 - From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher (Editor)
    The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2 - From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith - by Philip Hensher (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141396026 | ISBN 10: 0141396024

    'She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!'   Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected: this extraordinary selection celebra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brussels Noir by Michel Dufranne (Editor)
    Brussels Noir - by Michel Dufranne (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753985 | ISBN 10: 161775398x

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.   With Brussels Noir, the Noir Series ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex and Death by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs (Editors)
    Sex and Death - by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs (Editors)

    £18.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571322428 | ISBN 10: 0571322425

    How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the governing drives, our two greatest themes.   In this provocative, haunting and sexy collection of short stories, a group of acclaimed writers from across the globe probe the n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
    Thirteen Ways of Looking - by Colum McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869857 | ISBN 10: 1408869853

    As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.   It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories from Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare
    Stories from Other Places - by Nicholas Shakespeare

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784701017 | ISBN 10: 1784701017

    Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.  The opening novella, ‘Oddfellows’, tells the little-known history of the only e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize by Rodge Glass (Editor)
    Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize - by Rodge Glass (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910449387 | ISBN 10: 1910449385

    Brought together in one remarkable collection, Head Land presents an array of stories from writers nominated for the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize, in celebration of ten years of this unique and prestigious award.  The stories here explo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rio Noir by Tony Bellotto (Editor)
    Rio Noir - by Tony Bellotto (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753121 | ISBN 10: 1617753122

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.   Brand-new stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mammoth Book of Best New SF by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
    The Mammoth Book of Best New SF - by Gardner Dozois (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472137685 | ISBN 10: 147213768x

    For well over a quarter of a century, Gardner Dozois has been defining the field with his annual selection of the very best of recently published science fiction. Every year he showcases truly exceptional contemporary writing, both by undisputed mast ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best British Short Stories 2016 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    Best British Short Stories 2016 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784630638 | ISBN 10: 1784630632

    The nations favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories publishe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angela Carter
    Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women - by Various authors, edited by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349008462 | ISBN 10: 0349008469

    This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Kather ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miville
    Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories - by China Miville

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447235002 | ISBN 10: 1447235002

    The multi-award-winning China Miville has been called 'the equal of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a writer whose 'inventiveness and precision is awesome' (Independent), and who writes with 'an imagination of immense power' (Gu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Refugee Tales by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)
    Refugee Tales - by David Herd & Anna Pincus (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910974230 | ISBN 10: 1910974234

    Featuring Patience Agbabi, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Chris Cleave, Stephen Collis, Inua Ellams, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Herd, Marina Lewycka, Avaes Mohammad, Hubert Moore, Ali Smith, Dragan Todorovic, Carol Watts & Michael Zand.   Two unaccompanied ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
    A Few of the Girls - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781409161448 | ISBN 10: 1409161447

    "The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Don
    We Don't Know What We're Doing - by Thomas Morris

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571317028 | ISBN 10: 0571317022

    A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dub ... more

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  • Cover image of book The All Saints
    The All Saints' Day Lovers - by Juan Gabriel Vsquez, translated by Anne McLean

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408860434 | ISBN 10: 1408860430

    A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murd ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)
    The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction - by Raph Cormack & Max Shmookler (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905583720 | ISBN 10: 1905583729

    Featuring Bushra al-Fadil, Isa al-Hilu, Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Arthur Gabriel Yak, Hammour Ziada, Ahmed al-Malik, Bawadir Bashir, Mamoun Eltlib, Rania Mamoun & Ali al-Makk  Translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes, Raph Cormack, Mohammed Ghalayeini, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
    Public Library and Other Stories - by Ali Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241974599 | ISBN 10: 0241974593

    A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.   Why are books so very powerful?   What do t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stockholm Noir by Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenborg (Editors)
    Stockholm Noir - by Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenborg (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617752971 | ISBN 10: 1617752975

    Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stor ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Orleans Noir: The Classics by Julie Smith (Editor)
    New Orleans Noir: The Classics - by Julie Smith (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753848 | ISBN 10: 161775384x

    This sequel to the original best-selling New Orleans Noir takes a literary tour through some of the darkest writing in New Orleans history. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brook ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breaking Knees: Sixty-Three Very Short Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer
    Breaking Knees: Sixty-Three Very Short Stories from Syria - by Zakaria Tamer

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781902932453 | ISBN 10: 1902932455

    Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamers stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Will Happen, You
    Something Will Happen, You'll See A Tale of Polygamy - by Christos Ikonomou, translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780914671350 | ISBN 10: 0914671359

    Something Will Happen, Youll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomous luminous and poignant short stories center around laid- ... more

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  • Cover image of book Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)
    Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara - by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869024 | ISBN 10: 1408869020

    Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin F ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zagreb Noir by Ivan Sren (Editor)
    Zagreb Noir - by Ivan Sren (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781617753084 | ISBN 10: 1617753084

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.  Featuring brand-new stories translated ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
    Love + Hate: Stories and Essays - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571319701 | ISBN 10: 057131970x

    Hate skews reality even more than love.   In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sea Lovers by Valerie Martin
    Sea Lovers - by Valerie Martin

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781255551 | ISBN 10: 1781255555

    Wondrous beings and everyday monsters walk the pages of Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin's kaleidoscopic collection of stories.   Each of these twelve stories is a complete world, where ordinary lives are transformed, myths bloom into realit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
    Falling in Love with Hominids - by Nalo Hopkinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781616961985 | ISBN 10: 1616961988

    Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction. She has been dubbed one of our most important writers, (Junot Diaz), with an imagination that most of us wou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sisters of the Revolution: A Femimist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Editors)
    Sisters of the Revolution: A Femimist Speculative Fiction Anthology - by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Editors)

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630359 | ISBN 10: 1629630357

    Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and J ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers by Sinad Gleeson (Editor)
    The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers - by Sinad Gleeson (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848404205 | ISBN 10: 1848404204

    The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced.   Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary Costello, June Caldw ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pulp Idol Firsts 2016 by Various authors
    Pulp Idol Firsts 2016 - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910580103 | ISBN 10: 1910580104

    Pulp Idol is a unique writing competition for novelists, which focuses on supporting new original voices and getting them heard. We provide a platform for up-and-coming writers, helping with exposure to new audiences and providing contacts with key p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Faerie Thorn and Other Stories by Jane Talbot
    The Faerie Thorn and Other Stories - by Jane Talbot

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780856409554 | ISBN 10: 0856409553

    These arent the fairy tales you remember but theyre ones you wont forget.  Man Donaghy crept silently around the back of the farmhouse and over the field to the faerie thorn. The thorn was shimmering as he knelt before it. Whispering dir ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories by E. Blue, A. Greenhall, J. Kwak, G. Lair, M. Spencer and E. J. Street
    Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories - by E. Blue, A. Greenhall, J. Kwak, G. Lair, M. Spencer and E. J. Street

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781621065623 | ISBN 10: 1621065626

    In the not-so-distant future, when gasoline is no longer available, humans turn to two-wheeled vehicles to transport goods, seek glory, and defend their remaining communities. In another version of the future, those with the zombie virus are able to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jewish Noir by Kenneth Wishnia (Editor)
    Jewish Noir - by Kenneth Wishnia (Editor)

    £15.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629631110 | ISBN 10: 1629631116

    Jewish Noir is a unique collection of new stories by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S.J. Rozan, Nancy Richler, Moe Prager (Reed Farrel Coleman), Wendy H ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Point Two Billion by Mahesh Rao
    One Point Two Billion - by Mahesh Rao

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781907970337 | ISBN 10: 1907970339

    1.2 billion people live in India, making it one of the most populous places on earth. Its a nation of extremes, exhilarating in its diversity, and torn between ancient traditions and the shock of modernity.  Mahesh Rao writes about the tapestry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dead Funny: Encore by Johnny Mains and Robin Ince (Editors)
    Dead Funny: Encore - by Johnny Mains and Robin Ince (Editors)

    £8.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630393 | ISBN 10: 178463039x

    What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the brightest lights in UK comedy.   Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Best British Short Stories 2015 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    The Best British Short Stories 2015 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630270 | ISBN 10: 1784630276

    Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nations favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year...   Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover or more accurately, by its title. This new se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep by Ra Page & Penny Lewis (Editors)
    Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep - by Ra Page & Penny Lewis (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905583690 | ISBN 10: 1905583699

    Featuring Martyn Bedford, Zoe Gilbert, Andy Hedgecock, Adam Marek, Lisa Blower, Claire Dean, Deborah Levy, Ian Watson, Sarah Schofield, Annie Clarkson, Adam Roberts, M.J. Hyland, Lisa Tuttle & Sara Maitland   The relationship between sleep and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
    Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances - by Neil Gaiman

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472217721 | ISBN 10: 1472217721

    A collection of short stories from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories by Various authors
    Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845232887 | ISBN 10: 1845232887

    As the narrative mode across cultures and time, the short story form wings from oral folktales to myths of origin, from parables of caution to contemporary narratives of disclosure, disquiet and discovery. Humans have always valued the short story ... more

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  • Cover image of book The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 by Allan Little (Editor)
    The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 - by Allan Little (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905583799 | ISBN 10: 1905583796

    Featuring Jeremy Page, Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Buckley, Frances Leviston & Mark Haddon   FEATURING THE WINNING STORY, JONATHAN BUCKLEY'S 'BRIAR ROAD', AND RUNNER-UP MARK HADDON'S 'BUNNY'.   I often ask myself what makes a story work, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today
    Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York - by John Freeman (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143128304 | ISBN 10: 0143128302

    Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York   In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our ent ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 28 by Gardner Dozois (Editor)
    The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 28 - by Gardner Dozois (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472119995 | ISBN 10: 1472119991

    An annual institution - the year's best science fiction short stories and novellas.  For decades now Gardner Dozois has been presenting his annual selection of the very best of recently published SF stories, both by outstanding up-and-coming wr ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am Because You Are by Pippa Goldschmidt and Tania Hershman (Editors)
    I Am Because You Are - by Pippa Goldschmidt and Tania Hershman (Editors)

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910449264 | ISBN 10: 1910449261

    In November 1915 Albert Einstein published his now world famous General Theory of Relativity. It made key predictions around gravitys influence in space and time. It introduced to physics new concepts around the curvature of space, the passage of ti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales by Margaret Atwood
    Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349006536 | ISBN 10: 0349006539

    A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fly Away Home by Marina Warner
    Fly Away Home - by Marina Warner

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630386 | ISBN 10: 1784630381

    A long-awaited new collection of Marina Warners short stories. Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
    Let Me Be Frank With You - by Richard Ford

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408853597 | ISBN 10: 1408853590

    Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe.   Now sixty-eight, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived seemingly but not utterly amidst the devastat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 by Various authors
    Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262284 | ISBN 10: 1780262280

    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 brings together the five shortlisted authors' stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and entertaining - this collection reflects the richness and range of current ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors)
    The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction - by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781905583577 | ISBN 10: 1905583575

    Featuring Banana Yoshimoto, Osamu Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Horie, Shūichi Yoshida, Hiromi Kawakami, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hitomi Kanehara, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Ekuni & Mitsuyo Kakuta A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to e ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
    The Secret of Evil - by Roberto Bolano

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780330510660 | ISBN 10: 0330510665

    Roberto Bolao confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003.   A North Ameri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
    Chestnut Street - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781409151814 | ISBN 10: 1409151816

    A delightful collection of linked stories from No. 1 bestselling author of A Week in Winter.   Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stranded: Short Stories by Val McDermid
    Stranded: Short Stories - by Val McDermid

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780751551297 | ISBN 10: 0751551295

    Passion. Obsession. Revenge. A stunning collection of chilling short stories from the queen of the psychological thriller. White nights of passion and revenge in St. Petersburg. A bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders. The sleaz ... more

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  • Cover image of book Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World by James Thomas, Robert Shapard and Christopher Merriill (Editors)
    Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World - by James Thomas, Robert Shapard and Christopher Merriill (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780393346077 | ISBN 10: 0393346072

    What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mexico 20: New Voices, Old Traditions by Various authors
    Mexico 20: New Voices, Old Traditions - by Various authors

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782271345 | ISBN 10: 1782271341

    To celebrate the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK in Mexico in 2015, Hay Festival, the British Council and Conaculta have joined forces to bring twenty young Mexican writers under the age of forty, paired with twenty British translator ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
    The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - by Hilary Mantel

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007580996 | ISBN 10: 0007580991

    Hilary Mantel is one of Britains most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday fa ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Man
    No Man's Land: Writings from a World at War - by Pete Ayrton (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846689260 | ISBN 10: 1846689260

    The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best European Fiction 2015 by Various authors, with a Preface by Enrique Vila-Matas
    Best European Fiction 2015 - by Various authors, with a Preface by Enrique Vila-Matas

    £11.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781564789679 | ISBN 10: 1564789675

    For the past five years, this anthology has provoked reactions across the globe, exciting readers, critics, and publishers alike. Best European Fiction brings new names and new work to an international audience, at a time when the United States and B ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales by Kirsty Logan
    The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales - by Kirsty Logan

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907773754 | ISBN 10: 1907773754

    Winner of the Scott Prize Winner for the 2015 Polari First Book Prize Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection The Herald: Book of the Year 2014 Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize   Twenty tales of l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Helsinki Noir by James Thompson (Editor)
    Helsinki Noir - by James Thompson (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781617752414 | ISBN 10: 161775241x

    Helsinki Noir joins Copenhagen Noir in representing the Akashic Noir Series in the far north of Europe, exposing its frigid and sometimes frightening confines. Brand-new stories by: Leena Lehtolainen, Johanna Holmstrm, James Thompson, Antti Tuom ... more

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  • Cover image of book Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
    Happiness, Like Water - by Chinelo Okparanta

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847088314 | ISBN 10: 1847088317

    In this debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. Here, we meet a childless couple with very different desires; a college professor comforting a troubled student; a mother seeking refug ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Gay Erotica 2014 by Larry Duplechan (Editor)
    Best Gay Erotica 2014 - by Larry Duplechan (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781627780018 | ISBN 10: 1627780017

    Beautiful bears, delectable daddies, silver-fox studs and hunky hustlersLammy-lauded Larry Duplechan serves up steamy, man-on-man sex of the highest literary quality in this years edition of Best Gay Erotica.   Landon Dixon takes us on a ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Like Happy by John Burnside
    Something Like Happy - by John Burnside

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099575597 | ISBN 10: 0099575590

    A collection of masterpieces in short fiction in praise of hope, from prize-winning author John Burnside.  In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tenth of December by George Saunders
    Tenth of December - by George Saunders

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408837368 | ISBN 10: 1408837366

    WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013   George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Between Friends by Amos Oz
    Between Friends - by Amos Oz

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099581475 | ISBN 10: 0099581477

    In eight interlinked family dramas, master storyteller Amos Oz reveals the secrets and frustrations of the human heart.  On the kibbutz its hard to know. Were all supposed to be friends but very few really are   Ariella, unhappy in l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall
    Mrs Fox - by Sarah Hall

    £4.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571315673 | ISBN 10: 0571315674

    Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2013   Mrs Fox is the story of a suburban couple. She is smart and successful; he adores his beautiful, unknowable wife. But the illusion of domestic bliss is laid bare when she undergoes an extraor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belfast Noir by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville (Editors)
    Belfast Noir - by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781617752919 | ISBN 10: 1617752916

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin Mc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O
    The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien - by Edna O'Brien

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571282951 | ISBN 10: 0571282954

    Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dead Funny: Britain
    Dead Funny: Britain's Best Comedians Turn to Horror - by Robin Ince & Johnny Mains (Editors)

    £8.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907773761 | ISBN 10: 1907773762

    What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny is an audacious anthology, featuring tales of terror from some of the brightest lights in UK comedy.   Award winners Robin Ince and ... more

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  • Cover image of book OxCrimes by Peter Florence, Mark Ellingham (Editors), with an introduction by Ian Rankin
    OxCrimes - by Peter Florence, Mark Ellingham (Editors), with an introduction by Ian Rankin

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781250648 | ISBN 10: 1781250642

    Following the success of OxTales and OxTravels, this collection of crime writing is the latest Oxfam fundraiser, introduced by Britain's greatest crime writer, Ian Rankin, and featuring a compelling cast of suspects.   For 2014, Oxfam and Prof ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Story: Life Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop (Editor)
    The Story: Life Great Short Stories for Women by Women - by Victoria Hislop (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781856666 | ISBN 10: 1781856664

    'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...'   Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, nati ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original by Thomas Morris (Editor)
    Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original - by Thomas Morris (Editor)

    £12.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992817015 | ISBN 10: 0992817013

    Thomas Morriss Dubliners 100 invites new and established Irish writers to create cover versions of their favourite stories from James Joyces Dubliners. Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyces classic short story collection one hun ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women by Alex Dally MacFarlane (Editor)
    The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women - by Alex Dally MacFarlane (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472111661 | ISBN 10: 1472111664

    A celebration of women's contribution to science fiction, from established classics to the work of coming stars.  Women have always written powerful, important science fiction stories. This anthology showcases the most exceptional stories writte ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
    Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - by Margaret Atwood

    £18.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408857168 | ISBN 10: 1408857162

    A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome by Stephen Jones (Editor), illustrated by Alan Lee
    Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome - by Stephen Jones (Editor), illustrated by Alan Lee

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782064725 | ISBN 10: 1782064729

    Two hundred years ago two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, collected together a large selection of folk and fairy tales and published them as Kinder - und Hausmrchen (Childrens and Household Tales). So successful was the first collection of 88 stories ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Listener by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
    The Listener - by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908745361 | ISBN 10: 1908745363

    Tove Janssons debut collection of short stories   Aunt Gerda the good listener fears the encroaching forgetfulness of old age. Her solution is to create an artwork that will record and, inevitably, betray the secrets long confided in her. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)
    The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction - by Atef Abu Saif (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781905583645 | ISBN 10: 1905583648

    Featuring Atef Abu Saif, Abdallah Tayeh, Talal Abu Shawish, Mona Abu Sharekh, Najlaa Ataallah, Ghareeb Asqalani, Nayrouz Qarmout, Yusra al Khatib, Asmaa al Ghul & Zaki al 'Ela Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 by Various authors
    The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780261744 | ISBN 10: 1780261748

    The Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 brings together the five shortlisted authors' stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and entertaining - this collection reflects the richness and range of current ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Lesbian Romance 2014 by Radclyffe (Editor)
    Best Lesbian Romance 2014 - by Radclyffe (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781627780100 | ISBN 10: 1627780106

    Possiblity, Passion and Promise...  Falling in love opens us up to possibilities we never imagined, leaving us with a deeper sense of self and a greater appreciation for life. Whether you find yourself at the beginning of your journey or far ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best Gay Romance 2014 by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)
    Best Gay Romance 2014 - by Timothy J. Lambert and R. D. Cochrane (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781627780117 | ISBN 10: 1627780114

    Passion and Possibility...   The best part of romance is what might happen next...that pivotal moment where we stop and realize, This is wonderful. Romance can be many things: thrilling, inspiring, passionate and life altering. But most of all ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rags & Bones by Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt (Editors)
    Rags & Bones - by Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt (Editors)

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472210555 | ISBN 10: 1472210557

    Featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this is a unique and imaginative collection for readers of all ages. There are some stories that will always be told, tales as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jebel Marra by Michelle Green
    Jebel Marra - by Michelle Green

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781905583546 | ISBN 10: 1905583540

    In 2005, the poet Michelle Green spent six months working for a humanitarian aid agency in West Darfur. Her job was to navigate a complex web of government regulations and domestic logistics so that her colleagues, Sudanese and international, could d ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
    The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares - by Joyce Carol Oates

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908800664 | ISBN 10: 1908800666

    Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying tale combining the fury of folklore and adolescent insecurity.   Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hol ... more

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  • Cover image of book Astray by Emma Donoghue
    Astray - by Emma Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447209508 | ISBN 10: 1447209508

    With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Booby Trap and Other Bits and Boobs by Dawn OPorter (Editor)
    The Booby Trap and Other Bits and Boobs - by Dawn OPorter (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781471401428 | ISBN 10: 1471401421

    In aid of breast cancer charities. A collection of stories from famous names with one thing in common - boobs! Knockers, baps, bazoomas and hooters - big ones, small ones, man boobs, boob jobs and lopsided lady lumps - every boob tells a story. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller: Asham Award-Winning Stories by Various authors
    Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller: Asham Award-Winning Stories - by Various authors

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086849 | ISBN 10: 1844086844

    A collection of some of the most original and dazzling short stories, from writers old and new.  Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where Have You Been? by Joseph O
    Where Have You Been? - by Joseph O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099565451 | ISBN 10: 0099565455

    A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea.  Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry (Editor)
    Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories - by Kevin Barry (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571297047 | ISBN 10: 0571297048

    After previous volumes, edited by Joseph O'Connor and the late David Marcus, Faber and Faber are delighted to present a fourth collection of all new Irish short stories.   Edited by novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, whose story, 'Be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manila Noir by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor)
    Manila Noir - by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781617751608 | ISBN 10: 161775160x

    Launched with the summer 04 award-winning best-seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location withi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction by Terry Pratchett
    A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction - by Terry Pratchett

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780552163330 | ISBN 10: 0552163333

    In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the worlds best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Bli ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Life by Alice Munro
    Dear Life - by Alice Munro

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099578635 | ISBN 10: 0099578638

    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.   Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop (Editor)
    The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories - by Victoria Hislop (Editor)

    £25.00   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781851166 | ISBN 10: 1781851166

    Featuring two centuries of women's short fiction, ranging from established Queens of the short story like Alice Munro and Angela Carter, to contemporary rising stars like Miranda July and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, this is the biggest and most beautif ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future by Gregory Norminton (Editor)
    Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future - by Gregory Norminton (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689699 | ISBN 10: 1851689699

    Never before have we been so uncertain about what the following years, decades and centuries might bring. But in this riveting and provocative collection of short fiction, Beacons throws down the gauntlet to award-winning writers, challenging them to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Editors)
    The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard - by Tom Leger and Riley MacLeod (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780983242215 | ISBN 10: 0983242216

    A dynamic composite of rising stars, The Collection represents the depth and range of tomorrow's finest writers chronicling transgender narratives.  28 authors from the US and Canada converge in a single volume to showcase the future of trans li ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction by Brit Mandelo (Editor)
    Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction - by Brit Mandelo (Editor)

    £13.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781590210055 | ISBN 10: 1590210050

    Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes?  These seventeen stories ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Vodka: Ten Stories by Deborah Levy
    Black Vodka: Ten Stories - by Deborah Levy

    £12.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908276162 | ISBN 10: 1908276169

    "Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway and a stain and it's like smoke."(Placing a Call) From the Man Booker Prize 2012 and BBC International Short Story Award 2012 shortlisted Deborah ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O
    The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women - by Marie O'Regan (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780330242 | ISBN 10: 1780330243

    25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers.  Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', publ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud by Jonathan Taylor (Editor)
    Overheard: Stories to Read Aloud - by Jonathan Taylor (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781907773266 | ISBN 10: 1907773266

    From village storytellers to nineteenth-century serialisations, from pub anecdotes to dramatic monologues, storytelling is an enduring art form. This collection of short stories reconnects storytelling with its oral and performative roots. There are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Apricot Jam and Other Stories by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy
    Apricot Jam and Other Stories - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857863195 | ISBN 10: 0857863193

    'No matter what, you cannot change human nature,' exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism.'   Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Granta Book of the African Short Story by Helon Habila (Editor)
    The Granta Book of the African Short Story - by Helon Habila (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847083333 | ISBN 10: 1847083331

    Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinatin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray
    Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 - by Alasdair Gray

    £30.00   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857865601 | ISBN 10: 0857865609

    Sixty four short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with ten new stories, with illustrations and information to amuse curious readers. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drifting House by Krys Lee
    Drifting House - by Krys Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571276202 | ISBN 10: 0571276202

    A dazzling debut story collection from Korean-American writer Krys Lee.   Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War II history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigra ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bunch of Fives by Helen Simpson
    A Bunch of Fives - by Helen Simpson

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561576 | ISBN 10: 0099561573

    "Lorrie Moore with a BBC accent"(Jay McInerney) Since the publication of Four Bare Legs in a Bed, her first collection, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work today. These are wickedly funny, heartfelt, and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Best British Short Stories 2012 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    The Best British Short Stories 2012 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781907773181 | ISBN 10: 1907773185

    The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. The 2012 volume includes stories by Socrates Adams, AK Benedict, Neil Campbe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo
    Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories - by Ama Ata Aidoo

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956240194 | ISBN 10: 0956240194

    Ama Ata Aidoo is an iconic African writer who has inspired generations of black and other women writers on the continent and in the Diaspora. Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories, her latest collection of short stories brings together diverse themes t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Emerald City and Other Stories by Jennifer Egan
    Emerald City and Other Stories - by Jennifer Egan

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780331218 | ISBN 10: 1780331215

    From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad. These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ghost of Sani Abacha by Chuma Nwokolo
    The Ghost of Sani Abacha - by Chuma Nwokolo

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9789782190109 | ISBN 10: 9782190101

    Nigerian short stories. A harassed servant plots his grim revenge, a young woman puts a potential boyfriend to the test, a politician in his finest hour finds himself possessed by a begoggled demon. 26 stories of life and love in the aftermath of aut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
    Smut: Two Unseemly Stories - by Alan Bennett

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846685262 | ISBN 10: 1846685265

    Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer
    Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780747596189 | ISBN 10: 0747596182

    Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and commit ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story by Anne Enright (Editor)
    The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story - by Anne Enright (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847082558 | ISBN 10: 1847082556

    Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Conn ... more

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  • Cover image of book South of South by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
    South of South - by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231545 | ISBN 10: 1845231546

    Most migrants arrive at their destinations by a combination of serendipity and choicelessness. This has been Nii Parkes own experience. The question how did you arrive here? is always answered with a convoluted mix of myth, love, family ties, bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut
    While Mortals Sleep - by Kurt Vonnegut

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099529064 | ISBN 10: 0099529068

    A collection of sixteen previously unpublished stories by the twentieth century master.  In While Mortals Sleep men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A travelling salesman falls in love a robot, Jenny, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Road: Short Fiction and Essays by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
    The Road: Short Fiction and Essays - by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857381941 | ISBN 10: 0857381946

    Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative - illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rome Tales by Helen Constantine and Hugh Shankland (Editors)
    Rome Tales - by Helen Constantine and Hugh Shankland (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199572465 | ISBN 10: 0199572461

    In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine  (Editor and translator)
    Paris Metro Tales - by Helen Constantine (Editor and translator)

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199579808 | ISBN 10: 0199579806

    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories by Benedict Kiely (Editor)
    The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories - by Benedict Kiely (Editor)

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241955451 | ISBN 10: 0241955459

    'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?' In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this question is emphatically answered in the aff ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Man in the Shed by Lloyd Jones
    The Man in the Shed - by Lloyd Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848544826 | ISBN 10: 1848544820

    A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A husband enters a world imagined by his wife and pretends to be the man she loves.   The Man in the Shed is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tibn
    The Empty Family: Stories - by Colm Tibn

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141041773 | ISBN 10: 0141041773

    'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crossing the Lines: New Writing by International Students by Various authors, edited by Jackie Kay and Kachi A. Ozumba
    Crossing the Lines: New Writing by International Students - by Various authors, edited by Jackie Kay and Kachi A. Ozumba

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906601263 | ISBN 10: 1906601267

    With contributors from five continents, Crossing the Lines showcases new writing by international students living in the UK. This collection features the 14 best stories from the International Student Short Story Competition run by the Newcastle Cent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chattering by Louise Stern
    Chattering - by Louise Stern

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847081773 | ISBN 10: 1847081770

    Louise Stern's stories are peopled with brave young girls, out to party, travel the world, go a little bit wild. The one thing that marks them out from their peers is that they have grown up deaf. They communicate with the outside world via a complic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ladies are Upstairs by Merle Collins
    The Ladies are Upstairs - by Merle Collins

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781845231798 | ISBN 10: 1845231791

    From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, and there are the hazards of sectarian ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Best British Short Stories 2011 by Nicholas Royle (Editor)
    The Best British Short Stories 2011 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907773129 | ISBN 10: 1907773126

    Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or else ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (Editors)
    Stories - by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (Editors)

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755336623 | ISBN 10: 0755336623

    A hugely original anthology of imaginative fiction edited by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. One hell of a huge book of great, exciting stories which will become a uniting force for readers of all forms of imaginative fi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Haiti Noir by Edwidge Danticat (Editor)
    Haiti Noir - by Edwidge Danticat (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781936070657 | ISBN 10: 1936070650

    Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating earthquake.  Featuring brand-new stories by: Edwidge Danticat, Rodney Saint-Elo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Touchy Subjects: Stories by Emma Donoghue
    Touchy Subjects: Stories - by Emma Donoghue

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844087396 | ISBN 10: 1844087395

    A man finds God and finally wants to father a child - only his wife is now forty-three years old. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. A roommate's bizarre secret liberates a repressed young woman.   From the unfors ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wish I Was Here by Jackie Kay
    Wish I Was Here - by Jackie Kay

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330511810 | ISBN 10: 0330511815

    Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Trumpet.  This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eric by Shaun Tan
    Eric - by Shaun Tan

    £7.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848775879 | ISBN 10: 1848775873

    "Years ago we had a foreign exchange student come to live with us. We found it very difficult to pronounce his name correctly, but he didnt mind. He told us to just call him Eric. As charming as he is curious, by the end of his stay ... more

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  • Cover image of book Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Novelists by Various authors
    Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Novelists - by Various authors

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905881239 | ISBN 10: 1905881231

    From Borges to Bolao, the Spanish language has given us some of the most beloved writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. But as the reach of Spanish-language culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and as the US tilts towards a majority ... more

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  • Cover image of book Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories by Dike Okoro (Editor)
    Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories - by Dike Okoro (Editor)

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781592217199 | ISBN 10: 1592217192

    This anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names such as Benjamin Kwakye, Tijan Sallah, Zahra Ramij, Freddy Macha, Arja Salafranca, Odun Balogun, Tanure Ojaide, Jackee Budesta Batanda, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
    Too Much Happiness - by Alice Munro

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099524298 | ISBN 10: 0099524295

    A brilliant, compelling new collection from one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, and winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.  A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Stories by Alice Munro
    Selected Stories - by Alice Munro

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099541097 | ISBN 10: 0099541092

    First-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.  This first-ever selection of Alice Munros stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cack ... more

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  • Cover image of book A New Omnibus of Crime by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert (editors)
    A New Omnibus of Crime - by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert (editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780195370713 | ISBN 10: 0195370716

    This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indian Country Noir by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez (Editors)
    Indian Country Noir - by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martinez (Editors)

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781936070053 | ISBN 10: 1936070057

    Brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. HedgeCoke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martinez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi.&nbs ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Union Jack by Imre Kertesz
    The Union Jack - by Imre Kertesz

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781933633879 | ISBN 10: 1933633875

    A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner.  An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack the British Flag during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories by Edited by Theodore W. Goossen
    The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories - by Edited by Theodore W. Goossen

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199583195 | ISBN 10: 0199583196

    This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western lite ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by Edited by William Trevor
    The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories - by Edited by William Trevor

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199583140 | ISBN 10: 0199583145

    Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre.  Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seancha, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall - by Kazuo Ishiguro

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571245000 | ISBN 10: 0571245005

    Described by the New York Times as an original and remarkable genius, Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day.  Now in Nocturnes, a sublime story cycle, he explores ideas of love, mus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
    The Left Left Behind - by Terry Bisson

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604860863 | ISBN 10: 1604860863

    Hugo and Nebula award-winner Terry Bisson is best known for his short stories, which range from the southern sweetness of Bears Discover Fire to the alienated aliens of Theyre Made Out of Meat. He is also a 1960s New Left vet with a history of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Collected Stories by Janice Galloway
    Collected Stories - by Janice Galloway

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099540397 | ISBN 10: 0099540398

    Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotlands most gifted and original writers (Times Literary Supplem ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
    Tales from Outer Suburbia - by Shaun Tan

    £12.99   hardback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781840113136 | ISBN 10: 1840113138

    Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street, or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? In this stunning collection of short stories, renowned Australian illustrator Shaun Tan, the award-winning creator of The Arrival, reveals ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    The Thing Around Your Neck - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007306213 | ISBN 10: 0007306210

    From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West.  In ' ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Madman of Freedom Square by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
    The Madman of Freedom Square - by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905583256 | ISBN 10: 1905583257

    From hostage-video makers in Baghdad, to human trafficking in the forests of Serbia, institutionalised paranoia in the Saddam years, to the nightmares of an exile trying to embrace a new life in Amsterdam... Blasims stories present an uncompromising ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women
    Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women's Writing Competition 2008 - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196

    Survivors of violence are often forced to flee emotionally and geographically from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Real Louise and Other Stories by Ailsa Cox
    The Real Louise and Other Stories - by Ailsa Cox

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781902096575 | ISBN 10: 1902096576

    The Real Louise brings together a selection of new and published stories by Ailsa Cox. Some are love stories; others deal with family relationships or characters coming to terms with conflicting identities. All of them are rooted in the modern city a ... more

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  • Cover image of book One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors
    One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lairi and 21 other authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523138 | ISBN 10: 1906523134

    A teenage Nigerian girl struggles to shed her cultural roots in the US... An Inuit girl is rowed by her parents to the shore, unaware of the fate that awaits her... A Filipina maid in Hong Kong gets entangled with her employer... The lover of an Afri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Knives: Short Stories by Wendy Robertson
    Knives: Short Stories - by Wendy Robertson

    £8.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780955245060 | ISBN 10: 0955245060

    This collection brings together a dozen tales inspired, as the author herself puts it by the consummate experts on the darker side of experience.   Novelist Wendy Robertson spent three years working with female prison inmates, and though th ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
    An Elegy for Easterly - by Petina Gappah

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571246946 | ISBN 10: 057124694x

    A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected riches; a politicians widow quietly stands by a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Say You
    Say You're One of Them - by Uwem Akpan

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780349120645 | ISBN 10: 0349120641

    'I see dirty water dripping down the white wall beside me. It is coming from the ceiling. At first, it comes down in two thin lines. The the lines widen and swell into one. Then two more lines come down, in spurts, like little spiders gliding down on ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085583 | ISBN 10: 1844085589

    'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about...' Based on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories by Edited by Peter Burton
    A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories - by Edited by Peter Burton

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906413316 | ISBN 10: 1906413312

    In this new anthology of gay-themed short stories, readers will find themselves consumed in a whirlwind of enthusiasm over these carefully-selected and arresting works about the conflicts of war.   The title story follows the actions of a sma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader by Edited by Ronal Husni and Daniel L. Newman
    Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader - by Edited by Ronal Husni and Daniel L. Newman

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863564369 | ISBN 10: 0863564364

    Twelve stories by Contemporary Masters from Morocco to Iraq.  The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already well-known in the West, such as Idwar al ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer
    Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black - by Nadine Gordimer

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593843 | ISBN 10: 0747593841

    The latest collection of stories from Nobel and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer.  This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimers countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imagi ... more

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  • Cover image of book If You Liked School, You
    If You Liked School, You'll Love Work - by Irvine Welsh

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099483595 | ISBN 10: 0099483599

    In his first short-story collection since The Acid House, Irvine Welsh sets us five tricky questions. In Rattlesnakes how do three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, and why does one find himself performing fellatio on another w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Virago Book of Ghost Stories by Edited by Richard Dalby
    The Virago Book of Ghost Stories - by Edited by Richard Dalby

    £11.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844085385 | ISBN 10: 1844085384

    Bringing together the finest tales from the outstandingly successful Virago anthologies The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (Volumes I and II) and The Virago Book of Ghost Stories, comes this chilling new omnibus.  Lost loves, past enmities and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories by Michael A Cox & R A Gilbert (editors)
    The Oxford Book of Ghost Stories - by Michael A Cox & R A Gilbert (editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199556304 | ISBN 10: 019955630x

    An enjoyable and wide-ranging anthology including some of the most frightening ghost stories ever written. Writers included: M. R. James, T. H. White, Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, J. S. Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, and W. S. Maugham. "h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotlands Travelling People by Sheila Stewart
    Pilgrims of the Mist: The Stories of Scotlands Travelling People - by Sheila Stewart

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781841587523 | ISBN 10: 1841587524

    Sheila Stewart, singer, storyteller and author, is one of the last in the line of Scotlands travelling people. The way of life of the old travellers tramping the country roads, camping in the woods, hawking, fortune-telling and temporary work on f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 by Edited and introduced by Richard Ford
    The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 - by Edited and introduced by Richard Ford

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080400 | ISBN 10: 1847080405

    In 1992 Richard Ford edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century.  In the fifteen years since, Ford ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Liverpool: A City in Short Fiction by Various authors
    The Book of Liverpool: A City in Short Fiction - by Various authors

    £7.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905583096 | ISBN 10: 1905583095

    A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale... A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver... A bricklayer working on the foundations of a neve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power by Edited by Gary Phillips
    Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power - by Edited by Gary Phillips

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844671618 | ISBN 10: 1844671615

    They seek power at any price, and pay with the devil's own coin! All new stories from... Black Artemis...Ken Bruen...Mike Davis...Robert Greer...Pete Hautman...Darrell James...Jake Lamar...Michelle Martinez...Sujata Massey...Twist Phelan...Gary P ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle
    The Deportees and Other Stories - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099507055 | ISBN 10: 0099507056

    For the past few years, Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and impo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
    A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi - by Primo Levi

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141188911 | ISBN 10: 014118891x

    Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark selection of his fiction - all i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa by Compiled by Robin Malan
    Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa - by Compiled by Robin Malan

    £10.95   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780864866967 | ISBN 10: 0864866968

    Robin Malan's selection of stories about and from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique since 1960, is a vibrant collection, chosen to reflect lived experience of these places in these times u surely the most exciting and most pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lust, Caution: And Other Stories by Eileen Chang
    Lust, Caution: And Other Stories - by Eileen Chang

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141034386 | ISBN 10: 0141034386

    In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhis life is a front. A pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is My Funniest 2: Leading Science Fiction Writers Present Their Funniest Stories Ever by Edited by Mike Resnick
    This is My Funniest 2: Leading Science Fiction Writers Present Their Funniest Stories Ever - by Edited by Mike Resnick

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781933771229 | ISBN 10: 1933771224

    On the heels of the well-received and well-read This is my Funniest, comes This is my Funniest 2 from award-winning science fiction author, Mike Resnick. A survey of the humor that can be found within the science fiction genre, this collection of hil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jungfrau and Other Short Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 7th Annual Collection by Mary Watson and others
    Jungfrau and Other Short Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 7th Annual Collection - by Mary Watson and others

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904456629 | ISBN 10: 1904456626

    The winner of the 7th Caine Prize for African Writing is Jungfrau by Mary Watson from South Africa. Her story leads into this lively anthology of short stories from the best writers across the continent. It collects the winner and shortlist together ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella by Myriam Gurba
    Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella - by Myriam Gurba

    £13.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781933149165 | ISBN 10: 1933149167

    Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to St Michael's Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can't be snuffed out so easily: screwy brain chemist ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Life Elsewhere by Segun  Afolabi
    A Life Elsewhere - by Segun Afolabi

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099485186 | ISBN 10: 0099485184

    For the characters in Segun Afolabi's debut collection, 'elsewhere' is a place they must transform into home. The Far East, Europe, the Americas, Africa - the stories are as varied as their geographical settings. In the award-winning 'Monday Morning' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
    Fragile Things - by Neil Gaiman

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755334148 | ISBN 10: 0755334140

    Let me tell you a story. No, wait, one's not enough. I'll begin again...Let me tell you stories of the months of the year, of ghosts and heartbreak, of dread and desire. Let me tell you of after-hours drinking and unanswered phones, of good deeds a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections by Paulo Coelho
    Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections - by Paulo Coelho

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007235803 | ISBN 10: 0007235801

    Like the Flowing River is an intimate collection of Paulo Coelho's reflections and short stories, written from 1998 to 2005. These are powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choice, of love lost and found. Sometimes humorous, sometimes s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
    The View from Castle Rock - by Alice Munro

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099497998 | ISBN 10: 0099497999

    On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advantages', of banked Presbyterian e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
    Moral Disorder - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844080335 | ISBN 10: 1844080331

    Margaret Atwood has frequently cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. Moral Disorder, her new work of fiction, could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel... or a novel broken up into eleven stories. It resembles ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
    The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - by Angela Carter

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099588115 | ISBN 10: 0099588110

    From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. "Angela Carter has extended the ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson by Selected Stories by Tove Jansson
    A Winter Book: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson - by Selected Stories by Tove Jansson

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954899523 | ISBN 10: 0954899520

    Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly tran ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - by Yiyun Li

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007196630 | ISBN 10: 0007196636

    Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2006.Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.Shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers. In this prize-winning collection of short stories, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Qissat; Short Stories by Palestinian Women by Jo Glanville (Ed)
    Qissat; Short Stories by Palestinian Women - by Jo Glanville (Ed)

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846590122 | ISBN 10: 1846590124

    These fascinating and diverse stories reflect the everyday concerns of Palestinians living under occupation. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war. They offer co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hill Road by Patrick O
    The Hill Road - by Patrick O'Keeffe

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747579403 | ISBN 10: 0747579407

    The townland of Kilroan in the 1970s is at risk of being trapped for ever in an earlier version of itself, a time when shell-shocked soldiers returned from the trenches, and convent orphans could be billeted as servants on poor farmers; a time when a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Four Stories by Alan Bennett
    Four Stories - by Alan Bennett

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781861978196 | ISBN 10: 1861978197

    Brought together here for the first time, Alan Bennett's four hugely admired short stories are playful, perceptive and immensely funny. All are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands - The painfully observant account of a memorial service for a ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Love Stories: An Anthology by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo
    African Love Stories: An Anthology - by Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780954702366 | ISBN 10: 0954702360

    "African love stories? Is that not some kind of anomaly? This radical collection of short stories, most published in this edition for the first time, aims to debunk the myth about African women as impoverished victims. With origins that span the cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories by Courttia Newland
    Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories - by Courttia Newland

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845230401 | ISBN 10: 184523040x

    A middle-aged man with a guilty taste for schoolgirls seeks a way to end his shame; a hotel receptionist begins a sexual adventure with a vulnerable guest; a young man is troubled by a persistent itch behind his shoulder-blades; a sculptor is asked t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nimrod Flip-Out by Etgar Keret
    The Nimrod Flip-Out - by Etgar Keret

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099497226 | ISBN 10: 0099497220

    In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters' lives.  Daring, illuminating, intense and poignant, these stories are as painfully funny as t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tenant and The Motive by Javier Cercas
    The Tenant and The Motive - by Javier Cercas

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747578970 | ISBN 10: 0747578974

    The Tenant and The Motive are two darkly humorous novellas from the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis.  The Tenant is the mischievous story of Mario Rota, a linguistics professor whose life starts to unravel after he twists his ankle w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love and Strangers: Two Novellas by David Grossman
    Love and Strangers: Two Novellas - by David Grossman

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747581352 | ISBN 10: 0747581355

    These two novellas concern love. In Frenzy, Shaul is convinced that his wife is having an affair. He feverishly imagines her, in every painful detail, with her lover. Esther has never seen the human side of her aloof brother-in-law, but during a nig ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Know A Good Thing: The Asham Award Short-Story Collection - by Edited by Kate Pullinger

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747581833 | ISBN 10: 0747581835

    'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.' Virgina Woolf Our world has been conjured up by the talented writers gathered here. These wonderful and evocative stories have a truly international flavour, taking us fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scealta: Short Stories by Irish Women by Edited by Rebecca O
    Scealta: Short Stories by Irish Women - by Edited by Rebecca O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846590030 | ISBN 10: 1846590035

    The short story is one of Ireland's national treasures, and in these pages are some of its finest practitioners, from such established names as Julia O'Faolain, Claire Keegan and Christine Dwyer Hickey to the exciting new voices of Judy Kravis, Eithn ... more

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  • Cover image of book How We Are Hungry: Short Stories by Dave Eggers
    How We Are Hungry: Short Stories - by Dave Eggers

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141020044 | ISBN 10: 0141020040

    Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and through its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendant. Yet while celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also prove ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
    Ten Little Indians - by Sherman Alexie

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099464563 | ISBN 10: 009946456x

    Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above, an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim
    Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women - by Edited by Niaz Zaman and Firdous Azim

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565670 | ISBN 10: 0863565670

    This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings.  It includes stories on the 1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
    The Girl Who Married a Lion - by Alexander McCall Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841956299 | ISBN 10: 1841956295

    How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tree growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax?  The stories in this delightful collection make these questions seem simple, everyday ones - with, as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx
    Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories - by Annie Proulx

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007205585 | ISBN 10: 0007205589

    Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands "drop-out country boys with no ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freshmen: The Best Gay Erotic Fiction by Jesse Grant (Editor)
    Freshmen: The Best Gay Erotic Fiction - by Jesse Grant (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781555839055 | ISBN 10: 1555839053

    For almost 15 years, Freshmen magazine has published the hottest erotica about young men who are beginning to explore their sexuality. This collection presents the very best of the best. "Three incredible-looking guys were sitting shirtless at my din ... more

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  • Cover image of book Best of Gay Erotica 2 by Richard Labonte (Editor)
    Best of Gay Erotica 2 - by Richard Labonte (Editor)

    £11.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781573442138 | ISBN 10: 1573442135

    Beautiful bodies, searing male-male action, and wickedly inventive writing: all the things that make you read and re-read your gay erotic books until the covers curl and the pages drop open to your favourite scenes. Chances are a few volumes of Best ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Editors)
    So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future - by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Editors)

    £17.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781551521589 | ISBN 10: 155152158x

    So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour.   Stories of imagine ... more

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  • Cover image of book A is for Ancestors; A Selection of Works from the Caine Prize for African Writing. by Various
    A is for Ancestors; A Selection of Works from the Caine Prize for African Writing. - by Various

    £11.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781770090279 | ISBN 10: 1770090274

    Caine Prize 2003 Winner and Finalists;Yvonne Adhiambo-Owuor (Kenya), Ken Barris (South Africa), George Makana Clark (Zimbabwe), Emmanuel Donala (Congo), Rachelle Greef (South Africa)  African Writers' Workshop Stories 2003; Yvonne Adhiambo-O ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mordecai
    Mordecai's First Brush With Love: New Stories by Jewish Women in Britain - by Laura Phillips & Marion Baraitser (ed)

    £11.50   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780952942665 | ISBN 10: 0952942666

    A timely collection of short stories by Jewish women focusing on everyday concerns of the human heart - single motherhood, intermarriage, food and its terrors - with a cacophony of voices - comic, celebratory and violent. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories Fly; A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA. by Brenda Cooper (Ed)
    Stories Fly; A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA. - by Brenda Cooper (Ed)

    £10.95   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780864866080 | ISBN 10: 0864866089

    Where is home? How does our identity change when we move to a new country, or when national borders are eroded by globalisation? These are some of the themes of new fiction from African writers living outside the continent.  The writers of th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feathers and Cigarettes and other stories by Anne O
    Feathers and Cigarettes and other stories - by Anne O'Carroll and Stephen Martin (Ed.)

    £11.00   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780954258610 | ISBN 10: 0954258614

    Short stories by the winners of the Fish Short Story Prize, 2003. "In a world where twenty screens of digital bullshit seem to be revolving without respite... there is nothing that can surpass the 'exploitation of art' and its obstinate insistence o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hot & Bothered 4 by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Ed.)
    Hot & Bothered 4 - by Karen X. Tulchinsky (Ed.)

    £13.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781551521459 | ISBN 10: 1551521458

     For sale to WOMEN ONLY  The fourth in the 'Hot and Bothered' story collection brings together more erotic tales of lesbian desire, passion, love and lust. Including contributions from established writers such as Donna Allegra, Carol Qu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cherries in the Icebox: Contemporary Hebrew Short Stories by Marion Baraitser & Haya Hoffman (ed)
    Cherries in the Icebox: Contemporary Hebrew Short Stories - by Marion Baraitser & Haya Hoffman (ed)

    £11.50   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780952942658 | ISBN 10: 0952942658

    A unique collection of twelve of the best daring young multicultural voices. The authors write in Hebrew (here translated) but their families originate as far afield as Russia, Egypt and Afghanistan. These stories encapsulate, with wry wit and hope, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can We Talk and Other Stories by Shimmer Chinodya
    Can We Talk and Other Stories - by Shimmer Chinodya

    £10.20   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780435912055 | ISBN 10: 0435912054

    A collection of Zimbabwean stories following the transition from childhood to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined for Chinodya's characters as they grow up. The disappointments they face reflect a wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book They Die Strangers; A Novella and Short Stories from Yemen by Mohammad Abdul-Wali
    They Die Strangers; A Novella and Short Stories from Yemen - by Mohammad Abdul-Wali

    £11.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780292705081 | ISBN 10: 0292705085

    These stories, filled with nostalgia and the bitterness of exile, deal with Yemenis caught between differing cultures. Civil war and labor migration affect men abroad, women left behind, and children raised without fathers. The richness of Yemeni cul ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once in Europa by John Berger
    Once in Europa - by John Berger

    £12.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780747545484 | ISBN 10: 0747545480

    A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds - a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it - at their moment of collision.  The instrument of entrapm ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Be Continued: Take Two by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X Tulchinsky (Ed.)
    To Be Continued: Take Two - by Michele Karlsberg and Karen X Tulchinsky (Ed.)

    £10.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781563411106 | ISBN 10: 1563411105

    What do Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Nisa Donnelly, Jewelle Gomez, Judith Katz, Randye Lordon, Linda Nelson, Elisabeth Nonas, Cecilia Tan, Carla Trujillo, Kitty Tsui and Jess Wells have in common? These eleven dynamic storytellers were first brought together i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: New Fiction by Jewish Writers by Sonja Lyndon & Sulvia Paskin (ed)
    The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: New Fiction by Jewish Writers - by Sonja Lyndon & Sulvia Paskin (ed)

    £9.99   paperback   (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780907123811 | ISBN 10: 0907123813

    A collection of contemporary fiction by British, American and South African Jewish writers. Stories describe the new South Africa, the erotic possibilities of shoes, the lost Jews of outer space and the search for Kafka in Bronte country. This book r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories by Various authors
    Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories - by Various authors

    £15.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780719045981 | ISBN 10: 0719045983

    "A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection ... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and women."(Pat Barker) This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coming Home - and Other Stories by June Henfrey
    Coming Home - and Other Stories - by June Henfrey

    £7.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780948833670 | ISBN 10: 094883367x

    In the fields of whispering sugar cane, the rugged Atlantic coast of crashing breakers and the womb-like gullies of Barbados, the characters in these stories find a landscape which mirrors their inner lives.  Set at crucial points in Caribbean h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irish Myths and Legends by Michael Scott
    Irish Myths and Legends - by Michael Scott

    £9.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780751512427 | ISBN 10: 0751512427

    From the epic Irish legend of Cuchulain to tales of banshees, leprechauns and wizards, these short stories and fables cover a wide range of Ireland's mythology and legends, forming a companion volume to Michael Scott's Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. ... more

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