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£9.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781804992593 | ISBN 10: 1804992593
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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£9.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781838856090 | ISBN 10: 1838856099
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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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399606271 | ISBN 10: 1399606271
‘Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu’s voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a brilliant new talent’
DAMON GALGUT, Bo ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857865618 | ISBN 10: 0857865617
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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£10.99 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 Gaz ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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