Short Stories

A FARMER and his wife fall on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. Their hope for a better futu...

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is now the basis for a...

Martha Egan's collection of seven short stories transcends the limits of regionalism. In Carnales, a grudge lasting generations ends with a standof...

Author shortlisted for the £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award 2012.In Albania, Mexico, China, Iraq, Israel, Wales, the US, London people are on...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing...

From the author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile...

'a coming-of-age tale about the painful and wonderful experiences of motherhood... a compelling novel told in the most beautifully crafted way, and...

He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a ful...

Malaga Mysteries is a feast of thirty-two thought-provoking short stories set on the Costa del Sol, written by ex-pat author John Hardy, who has li...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades,...