Fiction: Special Features

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER - FOR FANS OF SPOTLIGHT AND AFTER T...

Time and the Gods (1906) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, Time and the Gods, a sequel to The ...

Inspired by the authors experience living among Chinese Americans in the United States, The Collected Writings of Sui Sin Far highlights stories of...

Bayou Folk (1894) is a short story collection by American author Kate Chopin. Chopin, a pioneering feminist and gifted writer, sought to portray t...

The Thinking Machine (1907) is a short story collection by Jacques Futrelle. Published at the height of his career as a leading popular detective a...

At a time that feels unprecedented in British politics - with unlawful prorogations of parliament, casual race-baiting by senior politicians, and a...

Written originally in Me'phaa, First Rain is a selection of poems that emerged from the poet responding to the death of his grandmother who declare...

The nations favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover ...

In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant to the citys t...

A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking t...

Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureate...

The brooding, introverted Count von O arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encou...

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendan...

An overweight Mafioso wants to dance like Michael Flatley. A comedian hires an unreliable heckler to disrupt the high profile gig of a rival. A you...

The stories of David Constantine are unlike any others. His characters possess you instantly, making you see the world as they do sometimes as exi...

A political thriller set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. It follows a group of...