Short Stories & Anthologies

Kevin Anderson / Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina: Star Wars Legends (Vintage Paperback)

Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today's leading writers of science fiction. In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there...

Isaac Asimov / Magic (Vintage Paperback)

To Your Health - short story The Critic on the Hearth - short story It's a Job - short story Baby, It's Cold Outside - short story The Time Traveler - short story Wine is a Mocker - short story The...

Len Deighton / Declarations of War (Vintage Paperback) (1)

A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very first time. Len Deighton's only...

Richmal Crompton / More William (Just William Series) (Vintage Paperback)

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Rudyard Kipling / Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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Agatha Christie / The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Vintage Paperback) (1)

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who...

Willa Cather / Youth and the Bright Medusa (Vintage Paperback)

In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a...

Jeffrey Archer / A Quiver Full of Arrows (Vintage Paperback) (2)

Twelve short stories with locations as far apart as London, New York, Mexico and Nigeria involving cricket matches, unscheduled train trip and more.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the...

James Purdy / 63: Dream Palace (Vintage Paperback)

Tells the stories of two brothers who move to a Chicago slum after their mother's death, a woman who can't abide her new, married name, a father and son who are unable to express their feelings, and...

Joseph Conrad / The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Contains racist language. Racial slur in title is transcribed from item. Although this edition was published in 1965, the text was originally published in 1897 and reflects views of that time period...

Nadine Gordimer / Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black (Hardback)

A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual...

Richmal Crompton / Just William (Vintage Paperback)

There is only one Just William. The loveable imp has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting hundreds of thousands of readers for years. Here, the Outlaws plan a day of non-stop...

Paul Theroux / The London Embassy (Vintage Paperback)

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William Boyd / On the Yankee Station (Vintage Paperback)

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Peter Ustinov / Frontiers of the Sea (Vintage Paperback)

Miss Rosemary tries everything to coax her flying cow Gertrude down from the sky.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware...

Desmond Hogan / Lebanon Lodge (Hardback)

This is a collection of stories about Irish characters, often far from home, who are passionate, disparate and desperate. His stories are peopled with exiles, misfits, deviants of all kinds and their...

Joseph Jacobs / Celtic Fairy Tales. (Hardback)

Embodying the charming humour and wit of the Celtic folk-tales, Jacobs has rendered his own particular style to the collection. This anthology of charming tales is captivating and one of the most...

Frances Leviston / The Voice in My Ear (Hardback)

*A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2020* 'I absolutely loved it... I cannot say enough how much I enjoyed it.' NAOMI ALDERMAN The first work of fiction from award-winning poet Frances Leviston offers a...

Elizabeth Taylor / Dangerous Calm (Hardback)

A selection of short stories by novelist and short story writer, Elizabeth Taylor. This anthology draws from her four collections, including her last, "The Devastating Boys". Taylor writes about the...

Jacob Grimm / The Shoemaker and the Elves (Hardback)

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Istvan Orkeny / More One Minute Stories (Large Paperback)

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Rob Doyle / This is the Ritual (Large Paperback)

'Doyle is as good as everyone - from John Boyne to Colm Tóibín - says he is' Daily Mail A young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets...

Emma Donoghue / Kissing the Witch (Large Paperback)

Thirteentales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in...

Jeffrey Archer / A Quiver Full of Arrows (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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H.E. Bates / The Four Beauties: The Simple Life; the Four Beauties; the Chords of Youth; the White Wind (Vintage Paperback)

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Woody Allen / Side Effects (Vintage Paperback)

Allen's third and final collection of humor pieces which originally appeared in *The New Yorker* during the late 1970s.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual...

Gerald Durrell / Fillets of Plaice (Vintage Paperback)

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David Sedaris / Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (Hardback)

A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you...

Frank O'Connor / My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories (Hardback)

The themes of childhood, love, marriage and community in Ireland run through this collection of the finest of Frank O'Connor's short stories. Skilfully constructed, they are infused with all the...

Alasdair Gray / The Ends of Our Tethers

Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last...

Kevin Crossley-Holland / SHORT! A Book of Very Short Stories

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Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Modern Library prides itself as ''The modern Library of the world s Best Books''. Since 1917 its paperback series has featured treasured classics, major translations of great works, and...

Anne de Roo / Scrub Fire (Vintage Paperback)

Fourteen-year-old Michelle and her younger brothers, separated from their aunt and uncle during a scrub fire on a camping trip in New Zealand, must use all their resources to find their way back to...

Eric Williams / Great Escape Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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John Mortimer / Rumpole and the Golden Thread (Vintage Paperback)

Horace Rumpole is back in this collection of stories from the court rooms of England.      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be...

Christopher Dolley / The Penguin Book of English Short Stories (Vintage Paperback)

This volume contains sixteen examples of the English short story at its best: immediately captivating and hugely entertaining. Some stories are classics, such as James Joyce?s ?The Dead?; others ?...

John O'Hara / Hope of Heaven, and Other Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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John Lynch / Walking with Cavemen (Coffee Table Book)

This is the story of how a cocktail of extraordinary traits were combined to create us, human beings. Fusing epic science with the drama of individual lives, it is the tale of everyone on the planet...

Grace Paley / Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Seventeen stories written over the past fifteen years reveal the author''s vision of human love and tragedy     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

W. B. Yeats / Yeats Anthology

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Neil Gaiman / Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

A newly repackaged edition of this dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Enid Blyton / Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Message in a Bottle

Introduce The Famous Five to younger readers with these BRAND-NEW mystery stories for children aged five and up! In this full-colour, newly created adventure story, the children and Timmy find a...

Patricia Looney (Editor) - Cork Words 3 : An Anthology of Contemporary Cork Writing - PB - 2022

The third anthology of Cork Writers and writing, published by Cork City Libraries - a mix of essays, poems, short stories, extracts from novels - all manner of Cork writing, some of it unpublished...

Doris Lessing / The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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John Patience / New Adventures in Fern Hollow (Children's Coffee Table book)

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Jenni Doherty / Wonderful world of worders

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Christopher Hope / Learning to Fly

This collection of short stories provides a vision of both sides of life in South Africa, and lays bare the absurdities of apartheid in a series of tales both humorous and ironic. The collection won...

Paul Negri / Great Short Short Stories

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories — each just six or fewer pages in length — includes such popular tales as Kafka's "A Country Doctor," Poe's "The Cask of...

Richard Ford / Let Me Be Frank with You (Frank Bascombe) (Hardback)

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the...

Ana Menendez / In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd (Hardback)

A collection of short stories explores the hopes and heartbreaks of exiled Cubans trying to build new lives in the United States     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Penelope Hughes-Hallett / Childhood: An Anthology (Hardback)

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Carol Shields / Collected Stories (Hardback)

For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In...