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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 117 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Book of Prague: A City in Short Fiction by Ivana MyÅ¡ková & 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 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 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 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 Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g.haron davis (Editor)
    Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic - by g.haron davis (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780063218796 | ISBN 10: 0063218798

    Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature for trans and gender nonconforming stories.  Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you’ll embark ... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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)

    £11.99   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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville
    Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories - by China Miéville

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

    The multi-award-winning China Miéville 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 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 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 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 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 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. It’s 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 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 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 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 Warner’s 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 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 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 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 Britain’s 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 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 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 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 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 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 Jansson’s 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 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 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 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 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 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 Tóibín
    The Empty Family: Stories - by Colm Tóibín

    £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 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 didn’t 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 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 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 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 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 seanchaí, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of ... 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 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 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 Gordimer’s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imagi ... 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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