Fiction: Special Features

Lush Library Recommends: Anna James Books for 2018Variations and fugue on the theme of obsessionVesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, rea...

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.Penguin Modern: fifty ne...

Rhoda Bharaths stories bring a very contemporary Trinidad of the internet and social media into an urgent but complex focus. Told through a distinc...

In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little does he suspect that...

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories.Penguin ...

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figur...

  A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argen...

'The most addictive of writers' Observer 'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables wher...

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...