Fiction: Special Features

'Detective Inspector Alex Steen is up there with Jo Nesbøs notorious, extraordinary Harry Hole... A gripping, addictive and unforgettable read.' Cr...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019 THE STUNNING SHORT-STORY COLLECTION FROM PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI If there...

The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Part...

Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinholds decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, wh...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Dutch.Olly's top-notch language-lear...

'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther pro...

By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACEA beautifully bizarre assortment of short stories and prose poems. Writing on an eclectic range...

The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl's country stories - but there is always something une...

Welcome to New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's first collection of short fiction.These wonderful works, originally publi...

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'A deliberatel...

The Fetishists, originally published in Arabic as Al Majus, is considered the masterpiece of Ibrahim al-Koni, one of the most prolific and importan...

Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. Eight authors were given the freedom of th...

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir ...

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolesc...

The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking s...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for fi...

THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLDA brilliant book RUSSELL KANE Brilliant and hilarious KEN FOLLETT A box-office-hit fi...

An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.* Karl Ove Knausgaard's ...

A captivating collection of original science fiction and fantasy stories based on the same alternate world premise: a collection of documents that ...

Discover Kadare's classic parable of life under a communist dictatorshipWhen the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives stories and novellas draw upon memo...

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, edited by novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury, is a collection of the finest short stories from ...

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected if temporary reprieve from the gr...

A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the ...

Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a po...

'A cracking good thriller...that will keep you gripped to the last page' GuardianIn the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two wome...