Short Stories

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. On the wh...

These stories from four decades are grounded in the geographical, cultural, and psychological American West. Ranging from realism to fables, from c...

Revealing the Southwest as home to some of the most entertaining writers in twenty-first century fiction, this collection features a wonderfully di...

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.Penguin Modern: fifty ne...

This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remot...

The classic Western short stories in this Jack Schaefer collection explore the changing and often challenging truths found throughout the American ...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, icon...

Life in the parched landscape of El Paso is the setting for this book of stories about people navigating their way through dysfunctional lives with...

La Frontera Publishing presents Broken Promises, its latest collection of thirteen fictional short stories and one novella about the Wild West from...

Streets are more than thoroughfares. Cobblestone or concrete, state of mind or situationstreets are catalysts for culture; sources of knowledge and...

Set in southwestern New Mexico, the stories in James Terrys stunning debut explore the joys, insecurities, and failures of memorable characters as ...

Eighteen extraordinary authors devise all-new fairy tales: imaginativereinterpretations of the familiar, evocative new myths, speculations beyond t...

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories twenty in all including several longer tales. Here are chilling histories of coincidence, in...

In sixteen ferocious short stories French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy...

Here are the best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for M?ori Writers 2011, as judged by Keri Hulme, Katie Wolfe, Erima Hen...

By turns haunting, hilarious, and heart breaking, Charles Havertys debut collection charts the journeys of men, women, and children cast out of fam...

A disparate group of travellers meets by chance at a motel while on the way to the National Bridge Finals in Canterbury, Florida. Naturally they be...