Fiction: Special Features

'Discovering Eva Ibbotsons books is one of the nicest things thats ever happened to me. The most beautiful, delicious, wry read' Marian KeyesCurl ...

  'A terrific collection' Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane and Love Marriage A Most Anticipated Title for Oprah Daily, Essence, BuzzFeed, The Mil...

A mostly silly story for adults. The reader is drawn into a dreamworld to have an absurd adventure that crosses the genres of fantasy, mystery, ho...

An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the t...

Tales from writers with Latinx, Caribbean, Asian, African, Arabic, North American, East European origins, and more, challenge the reader with stori...

The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of OBrians short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain ...

These tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable. The ...

The eight stories of speculative fiction in There Is Only Us explore themes of loneliness, connectedness, and selfhood. Each one is an act of intim...

At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who ...

Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City, by an author who understands the city like no other.One of Norway's finest writers GUA...

A kind of miracle Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes Jonathan Franzen One of the most brilliant satir...

The Woods explores the lives of people in a small Vermont college town and its surrounding areasa place at the edge of the bucolic, where the land ...

So much to relish here . . . the plot is gripping, there''s a beautifully handled thread on reading and writing, and the writing is just lovely! ...

During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own ex...

The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality...This is the tragic realisation made by the narra...

In these tense, macabre stories, bodies fall from the sky, perfect nails conceal grisly secrets and violence pulses behind gleaming façades. From h...

Kyokutei Bakin's Nans Satomi hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popu...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ...

A dazzling collection of retold and original fairy tales from fifteen acclaimed and bestselling YA writers, including Tracey Deonn and Melissa Albe...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 20201872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho ...

'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.'Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the le...

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverLeni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold. She was like a bored onlooker...

'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author...

This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give r...

Malloban is set in North Calcutta in the winter of 1929. The eponymous protagonist, a lower-middle-class office worker, lives in College Street-a l...

A brilliant collection of micro-fiction, reflecting our fragmented times.   With quirky humor and wry insight, Swiss author Judith Kellers micro-fi...