Short Stories

Gilberts libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as let the punishment fit the crime have en...

'Her storytelling ability is second to none' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller' NEW YORK TIMES'The Irish do love telling stories...

The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes.'Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in t...

Winner of the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award'Blisteringly good' GuardianIn her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people...

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound ed...

A collection of rare ghosts and horror stories by the brothers of one of the finest writers of the genre, E. F. Benson. The Benson brothe...

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's mast...

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black and white, a wizard cautiously entered a smoky ta...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collect...

Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women's inn...

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time a...

From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. From behind the ...