Anthologies featuring bestselling authors alongside rising stars. Short story collections from some of our beloved authors with Roald Dahl, Raymond Carver and Anita Desai among the better known
Anthologies & Short Stories
J.M. Gokey The Hatebug
£7.58
Bryan Daniel Billingsley Mr. Whole Sum Enchilada
£15.05
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Red Flags
£14.63
Independently Published Una sequenza di verità incontrovertibili
£11.06
Independently Published Through the wall
£13.51
Independently Published Tres historias nocturnas
£11.52
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Labbraccio del Riccio
£12.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Autumn Days
£13.57
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Possessive Stepbrother
£9.31
Independently Published القمر والبحيرة: قصص أطفال قصص ما قبل النو&
£12.56
Independently Published Short Stories in Polish For Beginners and Intermediate Learners: A2-B1, Polish-English Parallel Text
£13.26
Independently Published Bob Dylan Stole My Banana
£9.79
Independently Published Islamic Manners And Values: 100 moral Stories For Kids: Book Full Of Educational and Instructive Stories About Good Manners And Values For Children, Teach Them How To Be Kind and Respectful
£10.01
Independently Published 10 Hebrew-English Short Stories: (with audio files, vocabulary lists & verb tables)
£22.49
Independently Published Condottiere
£11.96
Independently Published Psych Ward Blues
£11.77
Independently Published Teyvat Tales: 14 Stories Inspired by Genshin Impact Lore
£10.11
New PR Shakespeares Kitchen
£15.68
Palagram Press The Joy of Funerals
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fragile Things
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£8.54
HarperCollins The Lady Most Willing...
Book SynopsisFrom Julia Quinn, the author of Bridgerton—along with close friends and bestselling authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway—comes a thrilling tale of a snow-bound party in a Scottish castle. And You’re Invited!When Laird Taran Ferguson’s nephews refuse to find brides, he takes matters into his own hands, raiding a ball and bringing some lovely young ladies to his castle. Which author do you think escorted which heroine to the castle? Miss Fiona Chisholm, a beauty with a scandalous past Lady Cecily Tarleton, a lovely heiress—but she’s English Miss Catriona Burns, a lady with no name or fortune, so clearly someone made a mistake! When it comes to gentlemen, did Eloisa invite an earl so stern that he broke his engagement after a mere whiff of scandal? Did Connie suggest that the Duke of Bretton fall asleep in the car
£8.99
HarperCollins The Relive Box and Other Stories
Book SynopsisWhile T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle''s sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an inimitable voice. From the collection''s title story, featuring a Halcom X1520 Relive Box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past to The Five-Pound Burrito, the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection speak to the humor, the pathos, and the struggle that is part of being human while relishing the whimsy of wordplay and the power of a story well told. In stories that span a variety of styles and genres, Boyle addresses the enduring concerns of the human mind and heart while taking on timely social concerns. The Relive Box is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling effort from a vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society. (The New York Times)
£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tomb Sweeping
Book SynopsisA playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships—from the award-winning writer of Days of Distraction Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants. A woman known only to her neighbors as “the Asian recycling lady” collects bottles from the streets she calls home. A young college grad ponders the void left from a broken friendship. An unfulfilled housewife in Shanghai finds a secret outlet for her ambitions in an undercover gambling den. Two strangers become something more through the bond of mistaken identity. These characters, adeptly attuned to the mystery of living, invite us to consider whether it is possible for anyone to entirely do right by another. Tomb Sweeping brims with remarkable skill and talent in every story, keeping a definitive pulse on loss, community, and what it means to feel fully alive. With her debut story collection, Chang further establishes herself as “a writer to watch” (New York Times Book Review).
£15.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pale Horse Pale Rider
Book SynopsisThe classic 1939 collection of three short novels, including the famous title story set during the flu epidemic of 1918.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers evoke such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This sharp collection of three short novels includes “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” Porter''s most celebrated story, where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war. Also included is “Noon Wine,” a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas, and “Old Mortality,” a story of discovering family truths and self-discovery. Pale Horse, Pale Rider unites the finest work from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
£16.14
HarperCollins A Different Kind of Tension
£23.62
Penguin Putnam Inc The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age StoriesIntroduction by Patrick O'DonnellSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextAcknowledgmentsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age StoriesFlappers and PhilosophersThe Offshore PirateThe Ice PalaceHead and ShouldersThe Cut-Glass BowlBernice Bobs Her HairBenedictionDalyrimple Goes WrongThe Four FistsTales of the Jazz AgeMy Last FlappersThe Jelly-BeanThe Camel's BackMay DayPorcelain and PinkFantasiesThe Diamond as Big as the RitzThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonTarquin of Cheapside"O Russet Witch!"Unclassified MasterpiecesThe Lees of HappinessMr. IckyJeminaAppendixExplanatory Notes
£14.40
Penguin Putnam Inc T.C. Boyle Stories II
Book SynopsisA second volume of collected short fiction—from the bestselling author and winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short StoryFew authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T.C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. In 1998, T.C. Boyle Stories brought together the author’s first four collections to critical acclaim. Now, T.C. Boyle Stories II gathers the work from his three most recent collections along with fourteen new tales previously unpublished in book form as well as a preface in which Boyle looks back on his career as a writer of stories and the art of making them.By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle’s stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The fifty-eight stories in this new volume, written over the last eighteen years, reflect his maturing themes. Along with the satires and tall
£22.50
Penguin Putnam Inc The Awakening and Selected Stories
Book SynopsisThe groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, with an insightful introduction by author Claire Vaye Watkins. A Penguin Vitae EditionWhen Kate Chopin''s classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author''s reputation. But a century after her death, The Awakening is widely regarded as Kate Chopin''s great achievement and a celebrated work of early feminist literature. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom.Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of cla
£20.25
Random House USA Inc Too Much Happiness
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£11.48
Random House USA Inc A Visit from the Goon Squad
Book SynopsisWorking side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future.
£14.12
Picador USA I Sailed With Magellan
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£21.00
Little, Brown & Company Excuse Me While I Disappear
Book SynopsisFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 'greatly gifted and highly original artist' comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect (New York Times).Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications.In Venice in the Late Middle Ages, a painter's apprentice finds a way to make his mark on canvases that will survive for centuries. In the near future, after the literary canon has been preserved only on the cloud and then lost, a scholar tries to piece together a little-known school of writers committed to using actual paper. In present day New England, a radio host invites his electrician to stay for dinner, opening up new narrative possibilities for both men.Written in prose so naturally elegant, smooth, and precise that it becomes invisible, Excuse Me While I Disappear asks what remains of our stories—as individuals and civilizations—after we are gone.
£19.80
Pan Macmillan The Other Garden and Collected Stories
Book SynopsisTwo exquisite collections of stories and a Whitbread Award-winning novel brought together with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst
£10.44
Pan Macmillan The Nightwatchmans Occurrence Book
Book SynopsisV. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 20Trade ReviewAs delightful as anything Naipaul has written. * New York Review of Books *V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer . . . This humour, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original. -- Kingsley Amis * Spectator *
£12.64
Random House USA Inc The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
Book SynopsisThe most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled • The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain.“Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays. —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING:• Unscrupulous Santas• Crimes of Christmases Past and Present• Festive felonies• Deadly puddings• Misdemeanors under the mistletoe• Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.
£22.00
Little, Brown Book Group Otis Lee Crenshaw I Blame Society
Book SynopsisThe memoir of Otis Lee Crenshaw, Rich Hall''s Perrier Award-winning alter ego''My Old Man''s name was Jack Daniels Crenshaw. No surprise what he liked to drink. As a very small child I remember teething - cryin'' out savagely for relief. Eventually he would appear over my crib and rub Jack Daniels on his gums until he fell asleep.'' Married six times, all to women named Brenda, Otis Lee Crenshaw''s bourbon-fuelled odyssey takes him from the high mountains of East Tennessee to the bottom of the music charts. A man not above faking his own death to sell more records, this is his not quite true story of romance, recidivism, country music, and an unshakeable belief in Marriage at First Sight.Trade ReviewHall uses his creation to explore the US of trailer parks, petty crime, insane money-making notions and harsh class divisions. He's pretty darn funny about it too . . . this is an intelligent and inspired book * MORNING STAR *As funny as his hilarious stand-up. * ZOO *Like reading a transcript of The Jerry Springer Show- hilarious. * ICE MAGAZINE *As happy conforming to white trash cliches as he is subverting them, Perrier award winner Hall has proved his pen is just as sharp as his mouth. * BIG ISSUE *
£9.99
Little, Brown Book Group Sweet Land Stories
Book SynopsisThese dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois (''A House on the Plains''), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California (''Baby Wilson''), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas (''Walter John Harmon''), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages (''Jolene: A Life''), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House Security (''Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden'').Comprised in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers.Trade Review** 'The perfect short story is a novel boiled down to a bouillon cube, or perhaps a single drop of water with a world reflected in its surface. These intense, vivid snapshots of the American psyche, by that old wizard, E.L. "ragtime" Doctorow, come close to that platonic ideal ... Doctorow has a deep respect for all his characters, and a genius for finding remarkable things in outwardly unremarkable lives * THE TIMES *** 'The exact use of language, allied to an underlying compassion, makes this writer hugely appealing * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *** 'Powerfully compact and direct * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *** 'Though they number just five, each of these masterful short stories lingers in the mind with the weight of a far longer work * DAILY MAIL *
£9.99
Little, Brown Book Group Magnificent Bastards
Book SynopsisComic genius Rich Hall introduces a series of magnificent bastards and lost souls in this hilarious collection of tall tales.Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows; a frustrated werewolf who roams the streets of Soho getting mistake for Brian Blessed; a smug carbon-neutral eco-couple; a teenage girl who invites 45,000 MySpace friends to a house party; the author of a business book entitled Highly Successful Secrets to Standing on a Corner Holding up a Golf Sale Sign; and a man whose attempts to teach softball to a group of indolent British advertising executives sparks an international crisis.
£9.99
Random House USA Inc The Stories of John Cheever
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£17.00
Random House Publishing Group The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book SynopsisThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky''s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky''s prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack''s celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky''s best stories.
£13.49
Penguin Random House LLC Wilderness Tips
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£14.36
WW Norton & Co Kafkas Selected Stories
Book SynopsisIn 1945, W. H. Auden remarked that Kafka stands in the same relation to his century as Shakespeare does to his—Kafka is the representative of the twentieth century, the poet who gives it its voice.
£22.78
Random House Publishing Group Sabrina and Corina
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£13.29
Penguin Putnam Inc Filthy Animals
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£13.60
Alfred A. Knopf The Pelican Child
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of “perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss” (The Atlantic).“Night was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night.” “Men are but unconscious machines and they perform their cruelties so effortlessly.” “Caring was a power she’d once possessed but had given up freely.” The sentences of Joy Williams are like no other—the coiled wit, the sense of a confused and ruined landscape, even the slight chortle of hope that lurks between the words—for the scrupulous effort of telling, in these eleven stories, has a ravishing beauty that belies their substance. We meet lost souls like the twin-sister heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune in “After the Haiku Period,” who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds; in “Nettle,” a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence; the ghost of George Gurdieff, on an obsessive visit to the Arizona birthplace of the shining Susan Sontag; the “pelican child” who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. All of these characters insist on exploring, often at their peril, an indifferent and caustic world: they struggle against our degradation of the climate, of each other, and of honest human experience (“I try to relate only to what is immediately verifiable,” says one narrator ruefully), possibly in vain. But each brief, haunted triumph of understanding is celebrated by Williams, a writer for our time and all time.
£16.03
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
Book SynopsisFor deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of “Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L. Mencken-“the father of our national literature.”
£7.50
Faber & Faber Nocturnes
Book Synopsis*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available to preorder*'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...'In a sublime short story collection, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time.
£8.99
Penguin Putnam Inc The Office of Historical Corrections
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2021 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY O MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, THE WASHINGTON POST, REAL SIMPLE, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE FINALIST FOR: THE STORY PRIZE, THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE “Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary new collection . . .” —The New Yorker “Evans’s new stories present rich plots reflecting on race relations, grief, and love . . .” —The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Danielle Evans demonstrates, once again, that she is the finest short story writer working today.” —Roxane Gay, The New York Times–bestselling author of Difficult Women and Bad Feminist The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief—all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history—about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight. In “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. In “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain,” a photojournalist is forced to confront her own losses while attending an old friend’s unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the eye-opening title novella, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk.
£14.45
