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Westland Publications Limited Urban Shots: Bright Lights
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£7.59
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose
£999.99
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd The Throb of Silence
Book SynopsisEven though the modern world mutilates and murders, it is not yet a lost hope or an ineffectual memory of the sweet past. Thamizhachiâs alternative reality of Vanapechi comes alive in poetic epiphanies.
£15.50
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Birthing Hut and Other Stories
Book SynopsisBirthing Hut and Other Stories is a collection of five tales that delve into the lives of ordinary individuals, offering insights into human values and vulnerabilities. Thamizhachi skillfully guides readers through the characters' experiences, fostering empathy over judgment.
£13.99
Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Fourteen Selected Short Stories From Across
Book SynopsisTranscending the frontiers of literature, this collection of short stories delves into the myriad shades of emotions felt by those around us and those far, far away; even those who may have lived years and centuries before us. From the glorious forests of Latin America to Doyle''s Baker Street, from the modernistic hotel room crisis in Asia; to Maupassant''s vivid portrayal of French life and Chekhov''s haunting simplicity, this volume showcases ingenious writers from across the globe as they portray the human condition, looking at life through the lens of love, humour, anxiety, playfulness and most importantly, honesty.
£13.99
Niyogi Books The Punch Magazine: Anthology of New Writing: Select Short Stories by Women Writers
Book SynopsisThe Punch Magazine's anthology features short stories by contemporary women writers from diverse locations like Kashmir, Kerala, Washington, London, and Rome. The stories delve into life's rhythms and ruptures, reflecting on individuals' concerns and preoccupations within and outside the home, capturing the essence of our times.
£13.50
Juggernaut Publication Our Freedoms
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by prominent Indian voices reflecting on the concept of freedom in the face of challenges. The book is described as inspiring, thought-provoking, and timely.
£19.99
Independently Published The Spaces In Between
£13.73
Addison Street Writers Circle Publications Berries from Brambles: Collection #12
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£14.63
HarperCollins Publishers My Mistresss Sparrow is Dead Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
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£14.99
HarperCollins The Italian American Reader
£15.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Burning Chrome
Book Synopsis“A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant.”—Washington Times magazine From a true master of science fiction comes a collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today.Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick, and with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson’s characters and intensely realized worlds at their absolute be
£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Great Short Works Of Herman Melville
Book SynopsisBilly Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer ... a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character."
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tales from the Script
Book SynopsisLets readers revel in the exploits of the writers Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), Nora Ephron ("When Harry Met Sally"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), David Hayter ("Watchmen"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), Ron Shelton ("Bull Durham"), and dozens of others.Trade Review"Captures the excitement, frustration, and reality of being a working screenwriter in an accessible and essential volume that aspiring screenwriters will devour." -- Booklist (starred review) "Fascinating tales from the belly of the beast." -- Lawrence Kasdan, Oscar-nominated writer/director of The Big Chill, Wyatt Earp, and Body Heat "Tales From the Script gathers notable veterans of the screen wars who demonstrate the basic truth of our adventures in Movieland: Writing is the easy part." -- John Sayles, writer/director of Lone Star and Eight Men Out "A must-read for anyone who depends on the screenwriter's craft. And that's a lot of us." -- Edward R. Pressman, producer of Wall Street, American Psycho, and Reversal of Fortune
£11.99
HarperCollins An Extraordinary Theory of Objects A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Book SynopsisAn awkward, curious girl growing up in a foreign country, the author finds solace and security in strange yet beautiful objects. When her father's mysterious job transports her and her family to the quaint Parisian suburb of Le Vesinet, everything changes for the young American. This title tells her story.Trade Review"This captivating, wonderfully strange little book is like no other I've ever read. Stephanie LaCava has created something original and true, at once emotionally resonant and intellectually challenging. A sheer delight." -- Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion and Slow Motion "What cleverly fills the honeycomb of LaCava's own story is a compassionate, evocative biography of seemingly aberrant things and a collection of historical anecdotes that most readers would never otherwise learn, let alone find gathered all together in one small (but not diminishing), deliberate, and careful book." -- Booklist "A series of wistfully illustrated essays... A strange and lovely journey." -- Flavorwire "Its brilliance lies in the depth in plumbs... Stephanie LaCava, along with the lovely illustrations throughout the book, shows us just how extraordinary these odd things are." -- Matchbook Magazine "Truly a lovely book in every sense." -- Minnesota Public Radio's "The Daily Circuit Blog" "With help from Matthew Nelson's elegant drawings, the worldly LaCava impresses by unearthing hidden treasures from a painful youth." -- Interview Magazine
£13.60
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Double Sin and Other Stories
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£15.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Harlequin Tea Set
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wood in Haste
Book SynopsisMiss Bianca Mansfield is ready for her debut. If only her older sister didn't insist on marrying first. She's doomed to wait to find love. Until she meets … him.For Lucian Dorlingsley, Viscount Asquith, recently returned from an extended tour abroad, it is love at first sight. He's determined to meet Bianca, even if it means masquerading as a tutor to her young half-brother.Soon Bianca is torn between love and duty and about to make a desperate decision. Can Lucian calm her fury over his betrayal when he reveals that he's not nearly as improper a match as he seems? And will they ever be able to find a match for her older sister to turn this masquerade into wedded bliss?
£7.26
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Essential Bukowski
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£12.40
HarperCollins Publishers Inc On Cats
Book Synopsis“Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski’s classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endearing as he explores and honors the majestic creatures and our relationship with them.” —BustleFelines touched a vulnerable spot in the unfathomable soul of Charles Bukowski, the Dirty Old Man of American letters. For the writer, there was something elemental about these inscrutable creatures, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our beings. Bukowski considered cats to be forces of nature, elusive emissaries of beauty and love. Funny and moving, On Cats offers Bukowski’s musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and resiliency. Poignant and free of treacle, On Cats is an illuminating portrait of this one-of-a-kind artist and his unique view of the world, witnessed through his relationship with the animals he considered among his most profound teachers.
£14.44
HarperCollins Snowbound at Christmas
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£8.54
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Im Telling the Truth But Im Lying
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£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Im Waiting for You
Book Synopsis?Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful.??Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of ParasiteIn this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea?s most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity?love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence?in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories.Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilitiesIn ?I?m Waiting for You? and ?On My Way,? an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure?through relativity?they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair.In ?The Prophet of Corruption? and ?That One Life,? humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earth?from the richest woman to a speck of dirt?is an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion?a disease?that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose ?child? is rebelling, isn?t sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order?and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as she considers the most basic of questions: who am I?
£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Smoke and Mirrors
Book SynopsisFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, an outstanding array of short fiction that surveys the terrain between the illusory and the ordinary and reveals the terrors and wonders reflected in the funhouse mirrors of our dreams―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee“He is a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him.” —Stephen King Spanning the realms of dark imagination, Smoke and Mirrors surveys the terrain between the illusory and the ordinary, treating readers to a gift of wonder and delight from one of the most unique literary artists of our time.The miraculous inventions contained herein - stories, novellas, and poems - reveal Gaiman to be a writer of immense talent and sophisticated invention. In his deft hands, magic is no mere illusion, but a powerful means of illumination, revelation, and reflection on what it means to be human. Poignant and haunting, humorous and unorthodox, Smoke and Mirrors is an outstanding array of short fiction from one of the world’s most distinguished literary masters.
£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Marple Twelve New Mysteries
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Bridgertons Happily Ever After
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£22.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Best American Short Stories 2023
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Confrontational and at times confounding, these are stories to get lost in, then gratefully chart a path homeward." — Kirkus Reviews “As guest editor of this year’s entry in the Best American Short Stories series, [Jesmyn] Ward has assembled a brilliant and moving collection...These 20 stories capture beautiful and devastating human experiences and the tales we tell to persevere. Contributors' captivating prose and incredible storytelling will plunge readers into fascinating worlds and challenge them to take on new perspectives.” — Booklist (starred review) on The Best American Short Stories 2021 “If you feel uneasy choosing just one author’s collection, let a witty novelist pick the best stories of the year for you.” — Nicole Y. Chung, Washington Post “This terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers lives up to Diaz’s ‘rah-rah’ (his term) rallying cry for the form... Count on them to transport you.” — USA Today on Best American Short Stories 2018 “This year’s collection brings together fine stories by famous fiction writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Karen Russell... [while] a great deal of the magic is generated by the appearance of less familiar names... Each of these outstanding stories is, as Diaz observes, a chance to listen ‘to some other lone voice struggling to be heard against the great silence.’” — National Book Review on The Best American Short Stories 2018 “This anthology rejoices in its range of subject matter, its emotional complexity and its depiction of quietly powerful moments.” — Shelf Awareness on The Best American Short Stories 2019
£14.24
HarperCollins Fourteen Days
£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Talk of the Devil
£19.78
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set
£72.07
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Martian Chronicles
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Final Score
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£22.10
Little, Brown Book Group 170 Chinese Poems
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of Chinese poetry.
£16.59
Penguin Publishing Group A Treasury of Yiddish Stories
£24.74
Penguin Publishing Group The Portable Renaissance Reader The Viking portable library
Book SynopsisEssential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.
£22.12
Penguin Publishing Group The Lime Twig
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together three early novels by John Hawkes. "The Lime Twig" is set in the underworld of postwar London; "Second Skin" is a tale of suicide and new life on two mythical islands; and "Travesty" is a monologue on fear and eroticism that takes place during a drive at night.Table of Contents"The Lime Twig"; "Second Skin"; "Travesty".
£22.12
Penguin Publishing Group Four Stories By American Women Life in the Iron Mills the Yellow Wallpaper the Country of the Pointed Firs Souls Belated Rebecca Harding Davis OrneJewett Edith Wharton Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisRepresenting four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, and Souls Belated by Edith Wharton.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Table of ContentsRebecca Harding DavisCharlotte Perkins GilmanSarah Orne JewettEdith WhartonIntroduction by Cynthia Griffin WolffLife in the Iron MillsThe Yellow WallpaperThe Country of the Pointed FirsSouls Belated
£15.57
Penguin Publishing Group The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Book SynopsisA definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horrorI think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. -Stephen KingFrequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as The Outsider to the overpowering cosmic terror of The Call of Cthulhu. More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadiTable of ContentsThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesIntroductionSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextDagonThe Statement of Randolph CarterFacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyCelephaisNyarlathotepThe Picture in the HouseThe OutsiderHerbert West - ReanimatorThe HoundThe Rats in the WallsThe FestivalHeCool AirThe Call of CthulhuThe Colour Out of SpaceThe Whisperer in DarknessThe Shadow Over InnsmouthThe Haunter of the DarkExplanatory Notes
£13.56
Penguin Publishing Group The Portable TwentiethCentury Russian Reader Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisClarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations
£19.40
Penguin Publishing Group The Portable Charles W Chesnutt Penguin Classics
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£19.80
Penguin Publishing Group The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime The Great Female Detectives Crooks and Villainesses Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisA wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
£16.87
Penguin Publishing Group Book of Unforgettable Journeys Great Writers
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£21.47
Penguin Putnam Inc Finding Time Again
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£21.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Mr. President
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£15.30
Penguin Publishing Group A Room of Ones Own
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf’s pioneering work of feminism, “probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century” (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs LastA Penguin ClassicIn October 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered a series of lectures to the two women’s colleges at Cambridge University, and the result was thus: A Room of One’s Own, an extended essay that outlines the limitations on women throughout history and in her own time. Through a series of metaphors, scenarios, and analysis of her literary predecessors—which includes a powerful thought experiment about a fictional sister of William Shakespeare and musings on female writers such as the Bronte sisters—Woolf argues that women need a literal and figurative personal sp
£14.45
HarperCollins Collected Stories of Kathey Porter
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Oxford University Press The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
Book SynopsisBorn into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher, and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career, her involvement with the anti-slavery movement, her eighteen months teaching the contraband slaves of the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War, and her later work as poet and essayist. Thanks to her keen observation amd meticulous accounts of the people and events that shaped her life, her journals provide a unique and personal view of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.Trade ReviewCharlotte Grimke 1837-1914 was such a keen observer and meticulous recorder of the events of her day, her journal survives as an important chronicle of one woman's struggles and accomplishments during this most important era in U.S. history. * Brenda Stevenson, in her Introduction *
£127.50
Oxford University Press The Wisdom of the Saints An Anthology
Book SynopsisThis selection of the aphoristic sayings from the writings and recorded works of the Catholic saints ranges over nearly two thousand years of ecclesiastical history. Ranging from the polished prose of St Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists, to the cry of the martyr on the scaffold, these quotations touch on a wide variety of themes such as joy, hope, faith, folly, and death.Trade Review`a rich and varied sampling of Christian concerns and interpretations over the centuries' Church History`a lively anthology with a rich antiphony of voices' Library Journal'beautiful anthology ... A perfect starting point for personal prayer and meditation!' Spiritual Life'a rich collection of brief selections from the writings and sayings of saints from the early Fathers to the saints of our own day.' America
£27.09
