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
Unthank Books Unthology No 2
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Stonewood Press Said and Done
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£11.40
Nine Arches Press Little Red Transistor Radio from Trieste
Book SynopsisDragan Todorovic's Little Red Transistor Radio from Trieste is the first collection of his uniquely dark, surreal and searing short stories. From a young boy discovering rock 'n' roll rebellion via his transistor radio in a small town in the former Yugoslavia, to a speculative supermarket where even the fake fruit and air fresheners can't hide pervasive shades of death, these stories encounter other 'possible selves', passengers, angels and voyeurs; things are lost and found and nowhere or no-one is quite as they appear to be. Combining blistering observations with an unnerving and precise articulation of our worst-kept secrets and fears, these stories come to vivid and spellbinding life at Dragan Todorovic's command; in compelling dreams and nightmares they redraw the boundaries between the real and the imagined. Dragan Todorovic is a master storyteller, ushering us into familiar worlds and then disturbing the peace, charming us with his wit only to outwit us with his magic. His
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Turnpike Books Awkward Squads The and Selected Short Stories
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£10.00
Nine Arches Press By All Means
Book SynopsisTim Love's By All Means is a collection of short stories that find people in transit; between places, relationships, states of mind and different lives. Sometimes these are stories of moving on, leaving the past and the characters populating a point in personal history lingering in memory's rear-view mirror. At other times, these stories ruminate on lives only half-full and half-lived, where the characters are stuck forever in either first gear, or worse - in reverse, terminally pondering but never quite settling on a direction of travel. These are gently tragi-comic stories laden with subtle, beautifully-observed everyday miracles and mistakes. Tim Love has an exacting ear for the voice of characters; he captures their travails and their unwitting shedding of truths and half-truths in irresistible style and in concise detail. Tim Love wields words with the precision of a surgeon, or a sculptor. These stories are clever, poignant and memorable - but above all they are hugely gener
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Ziggurat Books International 13 Stories
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£14.20
Blacknblue Press Wicked Tales Three The Witchs Library
£9.30
Influx Press Above Sugar Hill
Book SynopsisAbove Sugar Hill is an unforgettable collection of short stories set in Washington Heights, New York City. Located between 145th and 181st Street - roads no one from outside the neighbourhood is expected to visit. It is a visceral, vital work of site-specific fiction.Trade Review"Mannheim's restive tales of her desiccated stretch of New York provoke and abide like a slap." - Eimear McBride "Linda Mannheim's smouldering vignettes of New York life are both achingly sad and beautifully wrought. These are stories to re-read and savour." - Stuart Evers "The stories in Above Sugar Hill share a strong sense of territory but at the same time the buildings in them are vandalised and neglected; they burn and crumble - The children are as vulnerable as the buildings in which they live." - Alison Moore
£9.49
Tramp Press Dubliners 100
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Tramp Press A Kind of Compass
Book SynopsisBorrowed from Rebecca Solnit's book, "A Field Guide to Getting Lost", "A Kind of Compass" is a gorgeous, sprawling meditation on all the ways in which we find ourselves lost.
£11.40
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd All The Good Things Around Us
Book SynopsisAn important volume of new short stories from some of the most eloquent and gifted voices from Africa, capturing these moments of critical cultural shift and existential questioning.
£11.40
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd The Gods Who Send Us Gifts
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£11.40
ThunderPoint Publishing Limited The House With The Lilac Shutters And Other
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£8.54
Jantar Publishing Ltd Fox Season
Book SynopsisAgnieszka Dale's characters all want to find greatness, but they realise greatness isn't their thing. But what is? And what is great anyway?Trade Review'Fascinating and refreshingly honest stares at life in a foreign place.' —Zoe Apostolides, Financial Times ; 'The stories in this impressive debut collection are often quite odd - generally in a good way - with peculiar and perplexing endings that demand a second reading. At times, they are both humorous and poignant; at others, as wars and rumors of wars ride the darker undercurrents, they seem disturbingly portentous.' —Loree L. Westron, LA Review of Books ; 'Dale is between cultures, rooted in one, integrated into another, perfectly placed as observer and participant. She writes with an entrancing blend of distance and intimacy. In this country, she is an immigrant, but one who knows us and our language too well for comfort. Reading her, it feels that someone who has learned to be one of us, now does it better than we do. She knows what makes us laugh, and what makes us laughable.' —Jeremy Hardy, comedian ; 'Agnieszka Dale's impressive debut depicts on a large canvas our current world of chaos. Her sharp, humorous, sensitive and metaphorical style confirms that a new, exciting voice has arrived on the scene.' —Xiaolu Guo, author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, nominated for 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction
£10.00
Dodo Ink UnAmerican Activities
Book SynopsisA timely and razor-sharp satire of American culture in the age of Trump.
£8.54
Turnpike Books The Bagpiping People Selected Short Stories
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£10.00
Random House USA Inc Family Furnishings
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£12.15
Random House USA Inc England and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIn these beautifully crafted stories, Graham Swift—author of the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders—presents a vision of a country, England, that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, from world-shaking events to domestic dramas and frequently mixing tragedy with comedy, England and Other Stories is bound together by an underlying instinct for the story of us all: an evocation of that mysterious thing, a nation, enriched by a clear-eyed compassion for how human individuals find or lose their way in the nationless territory of birth, growing up, sex, ageing and death.
£14.40
Random House USA Inc A Wilderness Station Selected Stories 19681994
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “luminous” (Vogue) collection of twenty-eight stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the finest contemporary story writers in the English language” (Newsday)—previously published as Selected Stories“Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”—John Updike, The New York Times Book ReviewSpanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories “about love, marriage, discontent, divorce, betrayal, impulsive passion, second thoughts, deaths, even murder—stories with plenty of drama and surprise as well as reflection and meditation” (The Wall Street Journal)—by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emotional power. In A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994, Alice Munro makes lives that seem small unfold until they are revealed to be as spacious as prairies and locates the moments that change those lives forever. A traveling salesman during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between the opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.
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Random House USA Inc American Housewife
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£16.15
PICADOR Guestbook
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£13.09
Arcturus Publishing Sherlock Holmes A Gripping Casebook of Stories
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£22.49
Hodder & Stoughton Sparring Partners
Book Synopsis***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***''Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment'' IRISH INDEPENDENT''These three novellas in a single volume show Grisham at his masterful best, exquisite evocations of the law though far from complimentary about lawyers . . . A minor masterpiece'' DAILY MAILThree thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller.Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham''s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he''s not in the courtroom. He''s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole some money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. Until now. Now Mack is bTrade ReviewThree sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment * Irish Independent *Grisham is on vintage form * Financial Times *These three novellas in a single volume show Grisham at his masterful best, exquisite evocations of the law though far from complimentary about lawyers . . . A minor masterpiece * Daily Mail *Grisham's work - always superior entertainment - is evolving into something more serious, more powerful, more worthy of his exceptional talent * The Washington Post *A legal literary legend * USA Today *
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Random House USA Inc The Varieties of Romantic Experience
Book SynopsisIn the title story of this dazzling comic collection, a psychology professor delivers a lecture that segues into a confession of an embarrassing affair. An elderly man worried that his life is going downhill heads to an Indian casino in hopes of some relief. A recently divorced man arrives half an hour late to a bachelor party to find that the frightened groom has sent everyone else home. A reclusive writer visits a small college at the invitation of a former student, and nothing goes right. Funny and generous, these stories are virtuoso performances-moving forays into disconcertingly familiar territory that line the often slippery boundaries between masculinity and humanity in American life.
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Random House USA Inc The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Book SynopsisA landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.“To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short fiction. . . . One experiences as strongly as ever his gift for concrete abstraction and his spectacular observancy.” —The New YorkerRanging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote’s oeuvre are here, in stories as elegant as they are heartfelt, as haunting as they are compassionate. Reading them reminds us of the miraculous gifts of a beloved American original.
£13.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Relive Box and Other Stories
Book SynopsisBY THE WINNER OF THE JONATHAN SWIFT PRIZE 2017A dynamic new collection from one of our most original storytellers: satirical, surreal and very much of the moment.In these stories, T. C. Boyle focuses his unerring eye on humanity's relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. The prize-winning Are We Not Men?' reflects on the impact of new gene-editing technologies while The Relive Box' parodies our obsession with electronic games.In She's the Bomb', a young woman waits on her graduation day, heart in mouth, for an explosive event. A burrito-seller has a killer business idea in The Five-Pound Burrito', but learns that success comes at a price. An Italian couple moves south for a fresh start in The Argentine Ant', but finds that paradise holds a nasty sting. And in the chilling The Designee', a lonely widower can't believe his luck when he receives a mysterious letter from England.In electric prose T. C. Boyle exploreTrade ReviewA masterful short story collection which presents 12 snapshots of lives that have reached critical points… Boyle’s brand of futuristic fiction is so uncomfortably close to reality that the stories pack a prophetic punch * i *Crisp, cutting and providing a clued-up commentary of emerging technologies which foster self-absorption -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *With fiction rooted in technology, ecology and timeless human nature, Boyle is not just a virtuoso ventriloquist, he’s among the most acutely interesting writers at work today, and no form better serves his prolific imagination than the short story -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *Always enjoyable, virtually incapable of dullness or slack sentences … His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully invented * New York Times *The author is on a super footing .... when capturing the sense that we stand at a precipitous moment in history. T.C. Boyle is able to provoke moments of uneasy reflection from the reader: look, he seems to do to say – and look hard – not just at what we have done to the world, but at what we might have done to ourselves in the process * Times Literary Supplement *So vivid that I had to get up and walk around the room afterwards to shake it off -- Kirsty McLuckie * Scotland on Sunday *
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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Discovery of Love
Book SynopsisThe Discovery of Love, explores and heightens one of the dominant themes in Nthikeng Mohlele’s literary oeuvre, that of love. In this collection, love is reflected upon in expansive and unexpected dimensions.
£12.30
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd White Chalk
Book SynopsisThis fearless collection of stories takes the reader on an odyssey of love and grief. Terry-Ann Adam's peerless writing brims with fire and wonder. You will be provoked and you will exult. Above all, you'll remember where you were when you read White Chalk.
£11.39
Hodder & Stoughton Ivy of the Angel
Book SynopsisA wealth of lively characters and true-to-life situations in this collection confirm Lena Kennedy's reputation as one of our most vivid and compelling storytellers.Trade Review'Lena Kennedy is a natural storyteller ... Dickensian energy, a huge range of vivid characters, and a clear delight in telling us about them' -- Daily Telegraph
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Hodder & Stoughton Sweet Nothing
Book SynopsisCrimes, drama, hard choices and the dark side of sunny California feature in this awardwinning short story collection from critically acclaimed author Richard Lange.Trade ReviewLange's stories are knockouts. Gritty, humane, and utterly urban. -- Alice SeboldLange's morality tales are not that far removed from the classic stories of O. Henry and Guy de Maupassant. With a distinctive style, Lange makes his downbeat tales of the underclass quirkily entertaining. * Kirkus *Richard Lange's stories are a revelation. He writes of the disaffections and bewilderments of ordinary lives with as keen an anger and searing lyricism as anybody out there today. He is Raymond Carver reborn in a hard cityscape. Read him and be amazed. -- T.C. BoyleThe kind of book you'll want to savour * Pittsburgh Post Gazette *A natural-born storyteller -- Ron RashWhat makes this collection a wonderful read is it's only marginally akin to anything else. Swift, gut wrenching, and sometimes cleverly disarming fiction by a master -- Joe R. LansdaleThe man just keeps getting better. The stories in Sweet Nothing traffic in the vagaries of the human heart, those wants and needs that push us down dark paths. His vision is steely-eyed, yet you sense that Lange loves his characters - even the worst of them - and that compassion sharpens your own emotional investment. -- Craig Davidson
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John Murray Press The Juliet Stories
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Alice Munro, an ambitious coming of age novel-in-stories set against the backdrop of the political turmoil in 1980s Nicaragua.Trade Reviewa coming-of-age tale about the painful and wonderful experiences of motherhood with the traits typical of a bildungsroman; friendship, love, sex and heartbreak... This is a compelling novel told in the most beautifully crafted way, and the frequent lapse into disjointed stream of consciousness renders the style close to that of Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Snyder's storytelling is powerful to the point of creating an all-encompassing reality... It is a wonderful rarity when a book leaves you so profoundly affected. * We Love This Book *mature and powerful... Snyder maintains an engaging blog called Obscure CanLit Mama, but if there's any justice she'll soon have the option of dropping that first word * Montreal Gazette *well-crafted and imaginative... Snyder's tone and style is vivid and compelling * Globe and Mail *a moving story, beautifully told * Quill & Quire *Fans of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast will love this one * Chatelaine *excellent... Snyder has an uncanny ability to make the unfamiliar intensely knowable ... [The Juliet Stories is] pitted with a surplus of lovely land mines of revelation, aha moments exploding into wonderful, sometimes profoundly sad, insights * Telegraph Journal *subtle and deft * National Post (Canada) *Snyder is phenomenal here, crafting some of the most striking images and beautiful sentences that you will likely read all year. The Juliet Stories is not to be missed * Coast *sparkle[s] with nuance and thoughtfulness... engaging... terrific * Edmonton Journal *a stream of sensual imagery that grows more sophisticated with each page... The Juliet Stories highlights the lessons we learn in youth and with age, and the conflict between the freedom we value and the security we desperately need * Walrus Magazine *Similar to [Virginia] Woolf in style, Snyder's stream-of-consciousness prose gives the reader a view of Nicaragua from the inside... you may find yourself pleasantly challenged (and enchanted) by Snyder's impressionistic language and plot fragmented by time and geography * Winnipeg Review *
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Pan Macmillan The Book of Life
Book SynopsisThese seven stunning tales are about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation and redemption. They show us at our most vulnerable and our most miraculous. They show moments of grief and betrayal as well as humour and happiness. They show us the best of people and the worst. They show us life. Stuart Nadler is a writer in the great American tradition, but one who emerges from the shadows - of Updike, of Bellow, of Cheever - and stakes his own bold and exciting claim.Trade Review‘Good, old-fashioned, gorgeously-crafted tales’ Dazed & Confused‘Perfectly crafted . . . Like all great short story writers, Nadler can make his characters whole with the minimal amount of gesturing’ Financial Times‘Rueful melancholy and caustic humour permeate these impressive stories . . . The tone is set by the brilliant, bombastic opener’ Guardian‘I found these stories utterly absorbing; so perceptive, so crackling with wit, so sad’ Belinda McKeon, author of Solace‘Stuart Nadler is a great writer’ Time Out
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Union Square & Co. Christmas with Charles Dickens
Book SynopsisThis paperback will feature three Christmas-themed stories by the author, led by “The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” a tale acknowledged as a precursor to Dickens’s beloved classic A Christmas Carol. Other featured stories include “What Christmas Is as We Grow Older” and “A Christmas Dinner.”
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Little, Brown & Company Loose Lips
Book SynopsisFanfiction has always been there, lurking in the darkest corners of the internet. Two years ago, Amy Stephenson and Casey Childers found a way to drag it into the harsh fluorescent light of the Booksmith at Shipwreck: A monthly literary fanfiction competition. Now, Shipwreck has collected the most outrageous, perverted, brilliant wrecks based on 17 original works, from The Great Gatsby to The Hunger Games. LOOSE LIPS will contain cheeky illustrations, unintentionally suggestive quotes from the original source material, asides from the creators and the full text of the best submissions they''ve received. Writers include John Scalzi, Mara Wilson, Kate Leth, Night Vale writers Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, Kelly Link, Holly Black, Naomi Novik, Seanan McGuire, Heather Donahue, Andrew Sean Greer and illustrations by Madeline Gobbo. It''s a loving look at all of our favorite books with feminism and female sexuality, queer identity and diversity at the forefront.
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Little, Brown Book Group I Meant It Once
Book Synopsis''I Meant It Once explores longing, belonging and the big emotions that can make us feel small with unusual elegance and depth'' Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein''Gorgeously written and staggeringly honest . . . It will bewitch you'' Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch''I Meant it Once signals the arrival of a major talent and voice'' Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize Finalist Real Life''I was enraptured by these stories... Perfect for fans of Greta Gerwig'' Edel CoffeyWith this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships - with friends, roommates, siblings - while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In That Is Shocking, a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the Trade ReviewA delicate balance of sharp and sweet, I Meant It Once explores longing, belonging and the big emotions that can make us feel small with unusual elegance and depth. Kate Doyle is both a gifted observer of human nature and an original and poetic prose stylist. * Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein *Gorgeously written and staggeringly honest, I Meant It Once is a reclamation of female friendship, intellect, rage, desire, and creativity - placing a timeless filter on contemporary questions. It will bewitch you * Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch *I Meant it Once signals the arrival of a major talent and voice. These stories are by turns funny, melancholy, wry, and piercing in their insight. More than that, I arrived at the end of each of these stories feeling a little less lonely in a world that seemed a little less dark. Kate Doyle brings a rare confidence to stories about the lonely, the prickly, the aimless, and the out-of-sorts, all told in prose that is lively and beautiful. I loved these stories * Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize Finalist Real Life and Story Prize Winner Filthy Animals *Kate Doyle's sentences are something to be savored, and the characters in these stories live and breathe and stand up fully from the page. Perceptive, funny, forthright, and often alarmingly relatable, I Meant It Once is a tremendously good debut. * Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had *Kate Doyle's gorgeous, electric fiction upends expectations about how stories are told and what exactly needs telling. Lovers and rivals, siblings and friends navigate the funny, strange, sometimes explosive, sometimes transcendently beautiful terrain of love and ambition. These are wise, intimate, essential stories. * Mary-Beth Hughes, author of The Ocean House *Crystalline, funny, and richly alive, the stories in I Meant It Once thrilled me with their emotional acuity, their delicately nuanced portrayals of desire and intimacy, and their formal and syntactical dexterity and play. * Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want and Flight *With I Meant It Once, Kate Doyle proves to be an exciting, fresh, intelligent, unique, poetic and wild new talent. More, the stories feel like dispatches from the front of modernity. This is what it feels like to be here, and young, right now. This is a timely, inspired, great book. * Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life *Kate Doyle's economical and beautiful prose is suffused with a wistful melancholy shot through with wry humor, and we feel her characters' longing as though it is our own. The details are exact, as are the insights; the stories feel utterly real. The result is intimate and propulsive. An exceptional debut. * Cara Blue Adams, author of You Never Get It Back *In this incredible collection, with inventive and beautiful language, Doyle captures the stories of young women who find themselves so close to transformation into a defined version of themselves, one that will lead to a future that will hold them, and she does so with honesty and verve. * Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of Nothing to See Here and Now is Not the Time to Panic *The crystalline stories of I Meant It Once capture the complexities of our most intimate relationships-between partners, friends, family, and with one's self. Kate Doyle is a gifted storyteller, with a highly attuned sense for both language and vulnerability. This collection brims with the aches and longings, those wrenching pangs of emotional resonance, that one searches for in great fiction. * Alexandra Chang, author of Days of Distraction *What's so impressive about Doyle's writing is not only that she manages to express and engage with nebulous and difficult-to-articulate emotional ideas...but that in doing so she also manages to suffuse these apparently anti-plot stories with riveting readability * Irish Times *'I was enraptured by these stories, many of which explore the difficult-to-articulate emotional terrain of early womanhood... Doyle forces us to question why we dismiss young women of this age so readily and at what cost. A brilliant new voice and a subtle inquirer of society. Perfect for fans of Greta Gerwig' * Edel Coffey *
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Little, Brown Book Group Pythons Kiss
£15.29
Headline Publishing Group The Neil Gaiman Reader
Book SynopsisA captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James.
£17.09
Orion Publishing Co New Horizons
Book SynopsisThe citizens of Karachi wake up and discover the sea missing from their shores, the last Parsi on Earth must escape to other worlds when debt collectors come knocking, and a family visiting a Partition-themed park gets more entertainment than they bargained for.These stories and others showcase the epic scope of science fiction from the South Asian subcontinent. Offering a fresh perspective on our hyper-global, often alienating and always paranoid world, New Horizons brings together tales of masterful imagination where humanity and love may triumph yet.Trade ReviewA book worthy of being on the shelves of any reader who enjoys good stories - SF or otherwise * Factor Daily *
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Hodder & Stoughton How Are You Going To Save Yourself
Book SynopsisAn arresting debut about being young, black and male in today's America.Trade ReviewA powerful rendering of contemporary masculinity in America. * TLS *A blistering debut . . . Hilarious and compelling, Holmes offers up a mirror to contemporary society . . . a compassionate and powerful exploration of how race, friendship and sex intersect and the real-world consequences of stereotypes. * Independent summer reads *These are images of life that tantalisingly glimmer, treading the line between humour and pathos, offering sharp insights into the black American experience. Holmes has been compared to Junot Diaz and Ta-Nehisi Coates, but he is a distinctive writer in his own right. Spare in style, strikingly urgent, his is a voice to get excited about. * Guardian *Buckle up! JM Holmes's debut grabs you with the first sentence anddoesn't let go till it drops you gasping after the last period. This collection offers a tough and heartbreaking vision of masculinity, as powerful as it is uncomfortable. But boy is it worth the ride. * Ayana Mathis, New York Times Bestselling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie *Holmes has a deft touch with his writing; the enviable tender ability of capturing the ordinary, and the complex, and telling you as if you were two old friends sitting down for a catch up. * JJ Bola *Holmes' searing study of masculinity is offset by irresistible heart and biting humour * Entertainment Weekly *JM Holmes writes like someone told him Denis Johnson and Mat Johnson were brothers. These stories are as ferocious and fearless as those of his heroes. * James Hannaham, PEN/Faulkner Award winner for Delicious Foods *JM Holmes is not just a new voice but a new force: honest, urgent, compelling, often hilarious, and more often gut-wrenching. In How Are You Going to Save Yourself, he writes with remarkable compassion and intelligence about characters whose own compassion and intelligence sometimes betray them. Comparisons to Junot Díaz and Denis Johnson are perhaps inevitable, but I imagine they'll prove short-lived; in a few years we'll be comparing writers to JM Holmes. * Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers *It is a rare gift to us all when a writer's talents and subject command equal attention, but that is just what we have here in JM Holmes's superb debut, How Are You Going to Save Yourself. Written in spare, colloquial, and deeply evocative prose, these linked stories capture the contemporary lives of young men trying to find their way in this world, young men who also happen to be black in a post-industrial, ever-changing cultural landscape. These powerful stories herald the rise of an important and timely new voice among us, and I will now look for anything by JM Holmes. * Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days *[A] crackling debut . . . Holmes proves his ability to navigate vulnerability, as well as his fearlessness in tackling tense situations head-on, all of which combines for a collection of superb stories. * Publishers Weekly *Fresh and his dialogue rings true . . . Readers looking for timely, nuanced fiction about race and masculinity should definitely pick this up * Booklist *
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Edinburgh University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds Short Fiction
Book SynopsisA revisionist reading of Fitzgerald's short stories through the lens of popular culture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hubert Crackanthorpe Wreckage Seven Studies
Book SynopsisHubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the author and his work.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press E.L. Doctorow
Book SynopsisThis book gathers a suite of newly commissioned, original essays on the work of E. L. Doctorow.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Hubert Crackanthorpe Wreckage Seven Studies
Book SynopsisHubert Crackanthorpe was a skilful and technically innovative English realist/naturalist writer. This edition of his powerful first collection of short stories features a carefully contextualised introduction to the author and his work.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Walter Scott and Short Fiction
Book SynopsisA study of Walter Scott's short stories, novella and tales
£85.50
Orion Publishing Co The Wrong Heaven
Book SynopsisA startling collection of short stories about modern women and the quirks of modern life, for fans of Cat Person, George Saunders, Nathan Englander, Emily Fridlund and Tom Hanks.Trade ReviewIncredibly fun to read but also full of these frank and wise observations that stuck in my head long after -- Aimee Bender, New York Times bestselling author of THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKEIn her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each story further complicating the world as we know it. With a style that blends humor and sincerity in such strange, perfect ratios, Bonnaffons reveals the mysteries inside of us, just waiting to make themselves known. The Wrong Heaven, so wondrous, will alter you in all the necessary ways -- Kevin Wilson, author of THE FAMILY FANGAmy Bonnaffons is the real deal. She's a woman of impossible juxtapositions. Funny and wise, thrilling and disciplined, strange and masterful. Do yourself a favor and read this: you'll be surprised where you find yourself, but you'll never feel lost -- Darin Strauss, author of CHANG & ENGGod, these stories. I wanted to stop people on the street. I know contemporary writers who can lacerate, and I know others who are funny, and I even know some who can pull off pathos. But I don't know any who can do all three at once - with mastery, mischief, and meaning - like Amy Bonnaffons. She gives you a key to that secret room where, for a dear second, everything stops moving so quickly and you get a glimpse of the truth -- Boris Fishman, author of DON'T LET ME BABY DO RODEOThese stories are eerie, enthralling, and hilarious. Women grow hooves, carve dolls who talk, have sex (or almost) with angels. Bonnaffons is a masterful chronicler of female desire and its discontents -- Leni Zumas, author of RED CLOCKSLike the best storytelling, The Wrong Heaven feels like a gift - warm, intimate, and very, very funny. The characters are messy and vibrant and gloriously flawed, and their transformations are absolutely enthralling. This energizing collection will stay with me - happily so - for a long time. Read it -- Kayla Rae Whitaker, author of THE ANIMATORSAmy Bonnaffons surprises her readers with the truth. Whether her characters are toasting marshmallows over a flaming plastic Jesus, finding freedom in the form of a horse, or lusting after the Angel of Death, their particular lonelinesses and their struggles with their uncooperative selves are always moving and always grant us profound insight into what it is to be human in the twenty-first century. There are many stories in this brilliantly inventive collection that I will never forget, and that I will read again and again over the course of my life -- Stephen O'Connor, author of THOMAS JEFFERSON DREAMS OF SALLY HEMINGSAt once goofy, poignant, and edged with the fantastic, the stories in Bonnaffons's debut collection initially surprise, then turn into one long, delicious rush. Not just fun but full of smart ideas * Library Journal starred review *Channeling the fabulism of Karen Russell, these offbeat tales are both funny and profound * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S '10 Titles To Pick Up Now' *In her first collection, Bonnaffons dazzles and cuts with ten hilarious and cathartic short stories . . . Resonant of Alissa Nutting's novels and George Saunders' Pastoralia, Bonnaffon's first collection presents a powerful and fresh new voice * BOOKLIST *In the stories of her imaginative and unsettling debut, Bonnaffons creates worlds much like ours, except for the parts that are askew...When Bonnaffons hits the sweet spot between the emotional and physical realities of this world and the odd, askew thing that lets readers see them, the collection is at its best. This is an outstanding, exciting debut * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review *With her stunning debut The Wrong Heaven, Amy Bonnaffons has upgraded magic realism for the modern age . . . Seen through Bonnaffons' slyly humorous and sharp sensibility, even the most bizarre, heartbreaking, and mundane moments appear precious, interesting, and worth living -- Kseniya Melnik, author of SNOW IN MAYThese stories perfectly balance humor, strangeness, and keen insights into contemporary life. And by 'balance' I mean they are unbalanced in just the right way, always surprising, inventive, and deeply moving -- Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, author of THE SLEEPING WORLDThe Wrong Heaven is more than magical. It's a must-read. * HELLOGIGGLES *Funny, strange, and inventive stories * POETS & WRITERS *Creating a compelling universe in under ten thousand words - the task of the short story writer - is one of literature's most demanding challenges. Creating ten entirely distinct universes that successfully capture and distill the underlying ethos of the author's own era is a literary event that occurs only a few times in each generation... The publication of Amy Bonnaffons's debut short fiction collection, The Wrong Heaven, reveals itself to be one of those elusive and enthralling occasions . . . The author strikes like an earthquake in a land that hardly recalls mild tremors, evoking quivers of awe at both the power of the written word and the scope of human imagination . . . breathtaking * NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS *
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Book Synopsis''Because a life lived in fear is equal to no life at all''This is the uncompromising vision of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile. Fearless and highly erotic, these stories delight in ideas of sexual transgression and liberation, offering a window onto a world where anything is permitted, and everything is safe. As each of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile''s characters break from the bonds of acceptability and enter a darkness of desire, submission and sex, they discover their own humanity, a place where they can truly be free. A manifesto in the form of erotic photography, monologues and dialogues, Johnny Hostile''s stimulating photography punctuates Jehnny Beth''s seductive prose. Collapsing the barriers between sex and art while examining the universal values of human existence and consciousness through uninhibited desire, C.A.L.M. established Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile as two of the bravest and most provocative voices in fiction and erotic artTrade ReviewC.A.L.M. presents adventures in . . . abject passion with a forensic detachment that recalls Bataille, De Sade, Anais Nin and Patrick Suskind * The Quietus *Sexualised, strange and absurdist stories, told through different voices, fragmented but clear * CRACK Magazine *[The short stories are] boldly transgressive and startling in their vividness -- Fiona Sturges * i Magazine *
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