Short stories
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A beautiful lack of consequence
£16.99A beautiful lack of consequence
Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour. A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to women’s fear – but it comes at a high price. Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life – from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak.
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A blink of the screen
£10.99A blink of the screen
A collection of short stories and short form fiction from the pen of one of the world’s best-loved authors. ‘A Blink of the Screen’ charts the course of Pratchett’s long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.
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A child’s Christmas in Wales & other stories and poems
£10.99A child’s Christmas in Wales & other stories and poems
A selection of the very best poems and stories by Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
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A stroke of the pen
£9.99A stroke of the pen
Twenty early short stories by one of the world’s best loved authors, each accompanied by original woodcut illustrations. These are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. Meet Og the inventor, the first caveman to cultivate fire, as he discovers the highs and lows of progress; haunt the Ministry of Nuisances with the defiant evicted ghosts of Pilgarlic Towers; visit Blackbury, a small market town with weird weather and an otherworldly visitor; and go on a dangerous quest through time and space with hero Kron, which begins in the ancient city of Morpork. A collection for fans of all ages.
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A vision of the world
£9.99A vision of the world
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever – variously referred to as ‘Ovid in Ossining’ and the ‘Chekhov of the suburbs’ – forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the ‘New Yorker’, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing Sixties.
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Agatha Christie Poirot Calendar 2025
£10.99Agatha Christie Poirot Calendar 2025
Hercule Poirot – ‘probably the greatest detective in the world’ – is celebrated in the official Agatha Christie Calendar, comprising 14 brand new cover designs from the best-selling books – with 365 ‘little grey cells’ in which to write your daily appointments!
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Babette’s Feast
£9.99Babette’s Feast
Two elderly sisters living in a remote, God-fearing Norwegian community take in the mysterious French refugee Babette as a maid when she appears on their doorstep one night. When Babette wins the lottery, she decides to treat everyone to the decadent feast of a lifetime, during which her great secret is revealed.
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Because I don’t know what you mean and what you don’t
£9.99Because I don’t know what you mean and what you don’t
Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son’s best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses eggs at length. A heavily pregnant woman finds a way to time travel and a girl discovers joy on a stolen bicycle. Each tale paints a life in miniature and offers an escape chute from the catastrophes of modern life.
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Best crime stories of the year. Volume 3
£12.00Best crime stories of the year. Volume 3
International author Amor Towles, together with award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Bookshop, Otto Penzler, selects the best crime and mystery stories of the year for 2023 in one entertaining volume perfect for crime fiction lovers.
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Best crime stories of the year. Volume 4
£20.00Best crime stories of the year. Volume 4
Author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, together with founder of Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler, selects the very best of the year’s crime and mystery tales in this collection perfect for crime fiction lovers. Featuring stories from Jeffery Deaver and Brendan DuBois among many others! These twenty tales represent the best of short form crime and mystery fiction from over the past twelve months.
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Binocular vision
£12.99Binocular vision
These are the collected stories of Edith Pearlman. She writes about the predicaments, odd, wry, funny and painful of being human.
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Bliss
£9.99Bliss
Katherine Mansfield’s perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield’s stories were integral in shaping the Modernist movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories, including ‘Bliss’, ‘The Garden Party’ and ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’.
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Bodies from the library 6
£9.99Bodies from the library 6
Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the latest volume is another indispensable collection for any bookshelf.
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Classic fantasy stories
£10.99Classic fantasy stories
An entrancing anthology of fantasy short stories full of magic, adventure and surprise.
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Classic horror stories
£10.99Classic horror stories
A collection of ingeniously crafted, classic horror stories to fire the imagination and give you chills.
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Classic locked-room mysteries
£11.99Classic locked-room mysteries
An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.
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