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The World and Other Places: Stories

de Jeanette Winterson

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson's delectable first novel, announced the arrival of 'a fresh voice with a mind behind it,' as Muriel Spark has written. 'She is a master of her material, a writer...

Destiny Of Nathalie X

de William Boyd

This new collection of stories is William Boyd's second, appearing some fourteen years after his first, On the Yankee Station. Once again the stories range widely across the time and space of the twentieth century....

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

Professor Dr von Igelfeld #4

de Alexander Mccall Smith

Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he...

Bitch: One Tale from the Short Story Collection Switch Bitch (A Penguin Special)

de Roald Dahl

From Roald Dahl’s acclaimed short story collection Switch Bitch, a darkly hilarious tale of carnal lust…only for adults.

Roald Dahl’s notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius returns in this uprorious...

Sugar and Other Stories

de A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting...

Angels & Insects: Two Novellas

de A.S. Byatt

In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum...

This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories

de Jon McGregor

The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor.

From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean...

Cairo Stories

de Anne-Marie Drosso

Egypt is the setting for this collection, but the stories are universal –whether it’s the girl whose mother no longer recognises her, a young man who uses the changing political climate to avenge his despotic...

The Road to Madness

de H.P. Lovecraft

One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from...

Once in Europa

de John Berger

A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade...

Brain Food and Other Tales

de Brian Allen

Synopsis: On the surface, menace lurks in many of the stories in Brain Food and Other Tales. Some of these disturbing stories seem to be based on fact. All are surprisingly difficult to forget.---- The short...

Pulse

de Julian Barnes

After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his...

Heavy Water: and Other Stories

de Martin Amis

"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journal

In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern...

Cross Channel

de Julian Barnes

In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion....

Stephen Morris

de Nevil Shute

These two related novellas, Stephen Morris and Pilotage, were Nevil Shute’s first works of fiction and drew on his own youthful experiences. Both concern young men obsessed with the early world of aviation....

What Becomes

de A. L. Kennedy

Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of...

Stories

de Doris Lessing

This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English...

The Grandmothers

de Doris Lessing

In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young...

Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium: Stories A Penguin eSpecial from Riverhead Books

de Nick Hornby

In these two stories from bestselling author Nick Hornby, revelations are at hand. In Not a Star, Lynn has always thought her son, Mark, was a little, well, unremarkable. Until the day a neighbor drops off a...

The Matisse Stories

de A.S. Byatt

These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about...