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 intimacy, and the fine distinction between pleasing...

Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth

Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us...

Paul Jennings / Undone!

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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 person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in...

Greg Bear - Tangents ( Science Fiction Short stories) HB Gollancz 1989

Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious and imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon and Eternity. Tangents is his first collection of short stories and...

Neil Jordan / Sunrise with Sea Monster

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WOW! 366 speedy stories in just 366 words

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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 and decidedly strange direction--leading him to...

Morris West / Cassidy

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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 he isn't there to tell you how hot you look. Worried...

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 good-looking, and all the children are above average.All of...

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 Chistmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of...

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 past.All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Robert Bolt / A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's...

Eggers Dave - Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

Niall Macmonagle / Off the Wall

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Arthur Hailey / Strong Medicine

Miracle drugs save lives and ease suffering, but for profit-motivated companies, the miracle is the money they generate...at any cost.  Billions of dollars in profits will make men and women do many things--lie, cheat, even kill.  now...

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 fiction, some of which only appeared in this...

Somer, John & Daly, J ( Editors) - Scribner Book of Irish Writing - Paperback Edition 2001 Short Fiction

This is a collection of short fiction that shows the power, vitality and diversity of the modern Irish story. Fresh voices are represented alongside those synonymous with contemporary Irish literature, such as Emma Donoghue , Colum McCann and Joseph...

Anne Harvey / Shades of Green

A wide-ranging collection of nature poems for children, chosen by Anne Harvey. This is the perfect collection for introducing children to the magic of poetry. Includes poems from Thomas Hardy, Spike Milligan, Laurie Lee, Ian Serraillier, John Betjemen,...

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, whose truths have resonated with people all over the...

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 learning all they have to teach us, taking readers on an...

David Morrell / The Fraternity of the Stone

Drew MacLane is a star agent in Scalpel, a clandestine, government-sanctioned organization named for its purpose: precise surgical removal. Assassination. Then MacLane decides to stop killing. He withdraws from the operation and retreats to a monastery,...

O Henry / 100 Selected Stories

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Gerard Whelan / Big Pictures

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Tracey Turner / Writers and Their Tall Tales

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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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Annie Proulx / Close Range

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Jeffrey Archer / To Cut A Long Story Short

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Oscar Wilde / Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

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Lawson, Henry / While The Billy Boils - PB Australia

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 1977, Australia. 

Maeve Binchy / This Year it Will Be Different

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