Short Stories

This paperback will feature three Christmas-themed stories by the author, led by The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, a tale acknowledged a...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARForty years after John Edgar Wideman's first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vit...

A TIME 'New Books You Should Read' A People magazine 'Book of the Week' A New York Times Editors' Choice With a foreword by Elizabeth Strout El...

''WARM AND UPLIFTING STORYTELLING: A DELIGHTFUL TREAT''CLARE CHAMBERS, AUTHOR OF SMALL PLEASURESTwelve peopleTwelve giftsOne Christmas to rememberM...

Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked...

EDITED BY ELAINE CANNING INTRODUCED BY JULIA BELL A collection of new contemporary short stories by Welsh writers, comprising twelve diverse storie...

'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previo...

Stories and poems from thirty-nine UK based writers of the Global Majority from African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Carribean, South American, Chinese ...

A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city''s red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona...

Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very diffe...

The nation''s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cov...

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long be...

'Sleeping is a modern superpower. Stories are old magic.'Whether you find yourself struggling to fall asleep, awake in the middle of the night or s...

Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourse...

A haunted house tour-de-force from the creator of THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES podcast.GOING UP?A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-po...

In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the Af...

***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending ...

During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including 'Boule de Suif', 'The Necklace', 'The House of Mada...

A treat for anyone looking for an antidote to the usual saccharine Christmas fayre. NB magazine From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of T...

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The Ladies arrive, she finds that she must appease he...

'Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection.' TLSHousehold gizmos with a mind of their own.Constant cold calls from unknown numbers...

In her brilliantly inventive debut collection, Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting journey through a landscape on the edge of...

Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architect...

These novels often appear on 'must read' and 'best science fiction' lists.

  An uncompromisingly honest collection of short stories, examining with unique perspicacity the missteps, mistakes and misunderstandings that def...

Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category)Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, no...