Short Stories

'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of A...

Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Journey Prize Longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Burrard Inlet is the body of water that div...

In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of...

Sakis Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short story. Tobermory, one of Sakis most famous pieces, ...

The debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night. 'An utterly brilliant measure of deep exis...

The No. 1 bestselling author's first classic collection of short stories which showcases the depths of his brilliant imagination - now with a stunn...

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond ...

Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Svejk, a series of absurdist...

In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk st...

Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fourteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time ...

These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm...

Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf's 'Kew Gardens' and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Kathe...

In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album,...

'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would...

''The devil gave the woman a nudge: Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher''s shirt! ''Written for a local German jour...

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'Two moving stories...

In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little ...

Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyers earliest short stories, published together in book form for the very fi...

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voy...

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

The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day.**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY ...