Short Stories & Anthologies

Richard Ford / Women with Men

This is the story of a group of men and women. As they experience the consolations and complications of relationships with the opposite sex, they confront the obscure difference between privacy and...

Alice Munro / Dear Life

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a...

Neil Gaiman / Fragile Things

Neil Gaiman's extraordinary Fragile Things, from the bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods, reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his...

Neil Jordan / Sunrise with Sea Monster

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Lucia Berlin / A Manual for Cleaning Women

The New York Times bestseller 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' Independent The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make...

Maureen Johnson / The Boy in the Smoke

A SHADES OF LONDON exclusive World Book Day story On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to the Eton boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him along the way, sending his life in a new...

Morris West / Cassidy

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Helen Simpson / Four Bare Legs in a Bed

Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed...

Victoria Hislop / The Last Dance and Other Stories

Three of these stories were previously published in Victoria Hislop's ebook collection, One Cretan Evening.In ten powerful stories, Victoria Hislop takes us through the streets of Athens and into the...

Colum McCann / Fishing the Sloe-black River

Stunning collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of DANCER An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are...

Meg Cabot / Prom Nights From Hell: Five Paranormal Stories

Stephenie Meyer and Meg Cabot head up this collection of 5 thrilling paranormal stories which take bad prom nights to a whole new level. Imagine discovering you're dancing with the Grim Reaper - and...

Garrison Keillor / Leaving Home

A collection of wryly humorous stories presented as a tribute to the life and people of Lake Wobegon, Keillor's fictional American small town where all the women are strong, all the men are...

Ha Jin / The Bridegroom

This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve...

Tim Burton / The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy And Other Stories

Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and Nightmare Before...

Thomas F. Walsh / In Silent Moments

A collection of short reflections, some lyrical, some nostalgic, by an anthologist that vary in theme from a Roman holiday to a death in the family, and from clearing attics to memories of pupils...

Davy Byrnes / Stories: The Six Prize-winning Stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as Selected by Richard Ford

The six prize-winning stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as selected by Richard Ford: Foster ' by Claire Keegan, Living in Unknown' by Mary Leland, This Isn't Heaven' by Molly...

Niall Macmonagle / Off the Wall

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Mary Ryan / Glenallen

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Guy De Maupassant / Selected Short Stories

A selection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant which includes Boule de Suif, The Minuet, Madame Husson's May King, A Vendetta, A Deal, The Model, The Olive Grove, Rose, At Sea, The Capture of...

Joyce Cary - Spring Song : Vintage Penguin Short Stories - Paperback 1963

A paperback first Penguin edition, of Donegal born author (Arthur ) Joyce Cary - Spring Song & Other Stories, 1963, originally published by Michael Joseph in 1960, and a collection of all his short...

John Wood / In a Secret Place

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Ciara (ed.) Considine / Moments: Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims

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John D. Sheridan / Paradise Alley

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Pam Ayres / The Works: The Classic Collection

The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and,...

Oriah Mountain Dreamer / The Invitation

Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation,...

Oriah Mountain Dreamer / The Dance

The Dance picks up where cult bestseller The Invitation left off, taking the ideas deeper. This poem explores our ability to open up to the adventure of living, facing love, sorrow and anger and...

O Henry / 100 Selected Stories

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Gerard Whelan / Big Pictures

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Kate Cruise O'Brien / A Gift Horse

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Tracey Turner / Writers and Their Tall Tales

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Robertson Davies / The Rebel Angels

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Maeve Binchy / Maeve's Times

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Jeffrey Archer / A Twist in the Tail

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Sidney Sheldon / If Tomorrow Comes

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Pam Ayres / With These Hands

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Edgar Allan Peo / Selected Tales

Annie Proulx / Close Range

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Maeve Binchy / Dublin 4

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Jeffrey Archer / To Cut A Long Story Short

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Henry Lawson - While The Billy Boils - PB

52 short stories, originally published 1896, and classics of Australian 19th century writing, evoking the rural Australia that Henry Lawson knew himself.  Light edgewear only, this edition published...

Maeve Binchy / This Year it Will Be Different

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Deirdre Purcell / Sky

It could be the story that made heycareer. It could also lead her deeper intolove - and danger - than she had everbeen before...Working' on a newspaper in Montana,Beautiful Sky Macpherson is bored by...