Short Stories

A luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. ByattWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLMirrors shatter at the...

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we''''d chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, refle...

An NPR Best Book of 2021 New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known inter...

Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace...

From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories expose the hearts of girls and women in moments of obsessive desire and fanta...

''A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers.'' Candice ...

A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth. ...

''Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary new collection'' New Yorker''Evans''s new stories present rich plots r...

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Spellbinding i Breathtaking Elle Powerhouses of feeling and depth Mary Gaitskill Sharp and vital Daisy Johns...

Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and co...

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - ...

In Roberto Saviano's The Opposite of Death, a town in southern Italy is haunted by the war in Afghanistan, where one by one its sons are dying. In ...

John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writ...

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda FitzgeraldLove is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven ...

A beautifully illustrated collection of interconnected folk tales by internationally bestselling author Jackie Morris, set in a world of music, cur...

A rebellious yet human portrait of India's bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. 'T...

My name is Kinsey Millhone. Im a private investigator, licensed, bonded, insured; white, female, age thirty-two, unmarried, and physically fit. Tha...

The stories in Battleborn all unfold in Watkins's home state of Nevada, from down south in Nye County and Las Vegas, to Reno, Lake Tahoe, and the B...

Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the fi...

MURDERA millionaire philanthropist is shot while he sleeps. His terrified wife made a narrow escape. Or did she?MYSTERYA crime writer's violent fic...

Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Vict...

A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman.A couple give up their seats on a bus for lovers soon to be parted.A husband enter...

In this brilliant collection of stories Lorrie Moore addresses herself to a contemporary emotional dilemma - the widening gulf between men and wome...

'Heart-felt stories of life and love' Woman & Home from the No. 1 bestselling author'Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire . . . thought-pro...

This title includes an introduction by Sir Paul McCartney. First published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are a bri...

A 'bumper collection of short stories' (Sunday Telegraph} from the No. 1 bestselling master of the form, now with a stunning new cover look.The Ste...

Written in aid of the Huntington''s Disease Youth Organisation (HDYO), with a foreword from Catherine Martin, CE of the HDYO. The title story, F...

The title story, Fallen Eagles, is a Hamlet-inspired story about a Scottish boy who loses his idolised mountaineer father in an accident and blames...

Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Espanol, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist M...

'Stories that start like delicate webs and finish like unbreakable wire traps' Naomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short ...

''Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!'' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter) ''Bang-on brilliant'' MIRIAM TOEWS This...

'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stori...

''Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and moving collection'' Chris Power, author of Mothe...

'This is the one true star-map, he whispered. Time fluctuates wildly beyond our solar system. Everything we know about distance is wrong.'Quiet Pin...