Fiction: Special Features

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

No Presents Please is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub-locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small-town mi...

Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry... After years o...

A miracle, an instant classic. Slavoj Zizek, philosopher The tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macd...

An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of cultures and fathers and...

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writerliberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exoticonce banned but now embraced, and newly discovered in the...

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writerliberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exoticonce banned but now embraced, and newly discovered in the...

From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful...

Artificial intelligence in 100 stories. To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written most of them by human...

The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. 80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to...

Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language - chart...

The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The awa...