Short Stories

Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today''s foremost satirical authors. Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Cra...

A dippy photographer shoots talking donkeys and invisible strangers. A professor who in his youth vowed to kill Ian Paisley has so far failed to do...

A schoolboy time travels in a strange old shop house. A child with Down's Syndrome is run over chasing a balloon seller. An older sister tightly sl...

This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discuss...

This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the ninetee...

The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the period, which includes some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever...

In this gathering Anne Boyd Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Constance Fenimore Woolsons life. Woolsons stories travel from the rural Mi...

Discover Alice Munros remarkable early stories.Alice Munros stories are miraculous Sunday TimesThe sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmoth...

Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one of his most cele...

Winner of the Sunday Times short story prizeWinner of the Edge Hill short story prizeA kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world...

An artist in mourning for a brother who died fighting in Bosnia, a restless young woman alerted to the possibility of life outside her tight knit c...