Short Stories & Anthologies

Primo Levi / The Search for Roots (Hardback)

"The Search for Roots is an anthology of writings that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. Beginning with the Book of Job, that drama of the just oppressed by injustice, these thirty...

Robin Sloan / Ajax Penumbra 1969 (Hardback)

The utterly charming prequel to the New York Times -bestseller Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore. San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young, earnest Ajax Penumbra...

Enid Blyton / The Secret Seven (Hardback)

The Secret Seven are siblings Peter and Janet, and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven - ready to solve any mystery, any time - in Enid Blyton's classic series of...

Etgar Keret / The Seven Good Years (Hardback)

Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly...

Clare Murphy - The Spanking Goddess & Other Discarded Tales - PB - BRAND NEW

In The Spanking Goddess & Other Discarded Tales, Clare Murphy exhumes the Celtic canon to bring the wild stories that never made the cut, back into the light. A shapeshifter spanks her opponent,...

Donal Ryan / Heart, Be at Peace (Hardback)

WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Donal Ryan's writing...

Elmore Leonard / When the Women Come out to Dance (Hardback)

Raylan Givens is a US martial, but he used to work in the mines, digging coal for a living. He had a friend there who's also changed his business: he now heads up a neo-Nazi group that is threatening...

Stephen Krensky / Pooh Goes Visiting (Hardback)

When Winnie-the-Pooh visits his friend Rabbit, he gets stuck in the entrance hole and may have to wait until he loses some weight to get unstuck. Simultaneous     This book is second hand, and while...

Mark Twain / The Jumping Frog and Other Stories

A much celebrated jumping frog, the lack of literature in a gold-mining town, and castaways who eat their own shoes to survive are among the subjects treated by the stories contained in this volume...

Nadine Gordimer / Loot

A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an...

H.P. Lovecraft / The Whisperer in Darkness

Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott. That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but...

N. K. Jemisin / How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection. 'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of...

Candia McWilliam / Change of Use

The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the "Bloomsbury Classics". Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the...

Ian Urbina / Life's Little Annoyances

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M. Heinsaar / Butterfly Man Other Stories Paper & Ink

These stories, by one of the rising stars of Estonian literature, depict ordinary people undergoing extraordinary metamorphoses; it is not only their own lives that are changed forever, but also...

Joan Aiken / A Touch of Chill

Author - Joan Aiken - The homely and the exotic mix in fifteen unique tales. The macabre and witty stories are a melange of horror guaranteed to send chills up the spine of any sleepless reader.    ...

David Huebert / Peninsula Sinking (Large Paperback)

This astonishing debut fiction collection features stories about finding joy amid the horror of a precarious, melting life     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Louise Erdrich / The red convertible (Large Paperback)

A collection of three dozen short works includes six previously unpublished pieces and offers insight into the author's use of plot twists and contrasting psychological landscapes.     This book is...

Gearoid O Crualaoich / The book of the Cailleach (Large Paperback)

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Kristiana Kahakauwila / This is paradise (Large Paperback)

"A visceral, poignant, and elegantly gritty work of debut fiction set in Hawaii, in the vein of Junot Diaz's Drown and Danielle Evans's Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self This is the real...

Robert Cormier / 8 Plus 1 (Lions S.) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Meet seventeen-year-old Mike, who visits his grandmother's bedside and learns a family secret. A divorced father who discovers only love, not bribes, can keep his daughter 'his' on Thursdays. And...

Robin McKinley / Door in the Hedge (Orbit Books) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Norman Mailer / Essential Mailer (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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George Steiner / Proofs and Three Parables

This collection of short stories includes "Proofs", a literary thriller which explores the conflict between fact and fiction in life and literature. Also included are "Noel, Noel", "Desert Island...

H.P. Lovecraft / H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The finest works of H P Lovecraft, renowned as one of the great horror writers of all time.   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition Small Paperbacks are worn or...

Anne Frank / Tales from the Secret Annex (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts...

Micí Sheáin Néill Ó Baoill - Maith Thú a Mhicí - HB - BRAND NEW

Philip K. Dick - The Golden Man ( US HB Berkley Book Club Edition) SF Short Stories 1980

Hardcover Berkley US BOOK CLUB edition, 1980, a collection of 15 short stories from SF author Philip K. Dick, some from his earlier pulp magazine SF days . Edited and selected by Mark Hurst.  The...

Aleksandar Hemon / Love and Obstacles

'Some of the richest delights in contemporary fiction, as well as some of the best jokes' - Guardian From the prize-winning author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon, Love and...

Etienne Van Heerden / Mad Dog and Other Stories

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Sally Grindley / Paw Prints in the Snow

Two children accompany their parents as they travel the world helping animals on the verge of extinction. As their parents work alongside international agencies, the children have their own thrilling...

Jane Olliver / Treasury of Animal Stories

This anthology of 19 animal stories features all kinds of creatures from the animal kingdom, little and large, feathered and finned. The mixture of tales includes folk tales and fables, traditional...

Sara Corrin / Stories for five-year-olds, and other young readers

"A DRINK OF WATER"(JOHN YEOMAN) "JACOBLE TELLS THE TRUTH"(LISL WEIL) "THE TWO GIANTS"(MICHAEL FOREMAN) "THE BIRDS' CONCERT"(H.E. TODD) "LITTLE LISA"(RETOLD BY EINER NERMAN) "HOW THE ENGINE LEARNED...

Preston Grassmann / Multiverses

A mind-blowing anthology of 18 stories bringing you the infinite Earths of the multiverse. Featuring Alix E. Harrow, Clive Barker, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Annallee Newitz, Alastair Reynolds and...

Duncan Minshull / Telling Stories vol. 2

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Justin Torres / We the Animals (Large Paperback)

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21 ST CENTURY The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts. In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel,...

Sana Krasikov / One More Year (Large Paperback)

The protagonists of Sana Krasikova's indelible stories are mostly women - some of them are new to America; some still live in the former Soviet Union, in Georgia or Russia; and some have returned to...

Mohale Mashigo / Intruders (Large Paperback)

Intruders Synonyms: trespassers, interlopers, invaders, prowlers, infiltrators, encroachers, violators Orphan sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman...

Jane Yolen / Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters (Large Paperback)

Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as...

Heather Amery / The Surprise Visitors (Hardback)

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Drusilla Modjeska / Secrets (Hardback)

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William Trevor / The News from Ireland and Other Stories (Hardback)

Featuring "The News From Ireland"--set on the estate of the Protestant Pulvertafts during the famine years of the 1840s--this collection of short stories exemplifies the qualities of subtlety,...

William Trevor / Family sins & other stories (Hardback)

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Ivan Klima / My Golden Trades (Hardback)

A major Czechoslovakian writer, in the tradition of Milan Kundera, recreates the last days under communism and the jobs assigned to him by the state--archaeologist, surveyor's assistant, train...

Karin Slaughter / Like a Charm (Hardback)

KARIN SLAUGHTER, MARK BILLINGHAM, LEE CHILD, JOHN CONNOLLY, JOHN HARVEY,LYNDA LA PLANTE, DENISE MINA, PETER ROBINSON - A STUNNING COLLECTION BY CRIME FICTION'S BEST...Desire leaves a man destroyed -...

Anna Krien / Act of Grace (Large Paperback)

Set around the time of the 2003 Iraq War, Act of Grace contains seven linked short stories about family, violence, fear, and sacrifice. Toohey, an Australian soldier in Baghdad, returns home with...

Jimmy Breslin / Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (Older Edition Small Paperback)

"The gang"--They're just a nice, dishonest bunch of guyes only an Italian mama could love. Not only can't they shoot straight, they can't even rob, steal, cheat, or kill straight.   The picture shown...

Woody Allen / Without Feathers (Older Edition Small Paperback)

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Maeve Binchy / London Transports (Older Edition Small Paperback)

At Notting Hill, the mysterious secretary, harbouring her secrets, travels to work; at Highburyand Islington, Adam has a sudden change of heart; and at Holborn, a disastrous reunion is about to take...

Louise Erdrich / Love Medicine (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition...

Murder on the Menu: V. 1: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery (Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery) (Older Edition Small Paperback)

What better way to do away with an enemy than at the dinner table? Arsenic in the porridge, cyanide in the cocoa, a sauce laced with strychnine, or the chef with a cleaver in his back - the choices...

John Mortimer / Rumpole a La Carte (Older Edition Small Paperback)

A collection of Rumpole stories, by the barrister, novelist, screenwriter and dramatist, John Mortimer   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   Our Older Edition Small Paperbacks are...