Heroin's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. For more options...

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comedie Humaine. For more options...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'. In Yesterday's Weather, Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. For more options...

Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point in space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted. For more options...

Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. For more options...

An outstanding new collection of short stories from the acknowledged master of the genre. Trevor has won many awards, and his most recent novel "The Story Of Lucy Gaunt", 2003. For more options...

This is a selection of deliciously spooky short stories from the Japanese master of suspense, the acclaimed author of "Ring". The first story in the collection has been filmed as "Dark Water", starring Jennifer Connelly. For more options...

A moving new book of fiction which could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel ...or a novel broken up into eleven interrelated stories. It resembles a photograph album ? a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also of the other lives intertwined with it ? those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers and even of animals. For more options...

A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. For more options...

' Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the UK for the first time, here are essays and journalism from the brilliant novelist and poet. For more options...

A collection of short stories. The setting is primary North Africa, the author's adoptive home.. For more options...

I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me." Thus begins "Strung Out", Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. For more options...

A chance encounter prompts an ageing professor to regret a lifetime of wasted opportunities; a beautiful wife tests her husband by making herself hideous; for the love of a girl, a boy turns himself into a violoncello... In these seven short stories Dan Rhodes lays bare the pain and enchantment of love. . For more options...

In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. For more options...

A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outside both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land. This is a collection characterised by all of Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.. For more options...

In her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives Miranda July reveals how a single moment can change everything. Whether writing about a middle-aged woman's obsession with Prince William or an aging factory worker who has never been in love, the result is startling, tender and sexy by turns.Miranda July is a brilliant new voice in fiction. For more options...