Mexico: New Voices, Old Traditions: Part 20 by Various Authors
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
To celebrate the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK inMexico in 2015, Hay Festival, the British Council and Conacultahave joined forces to bring twenty young Mexican writers under the age offorty, paired with twenty British translators, to an international readership. Broken families, a man ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
Deadlier - 100 of the Best Crime Stories Written by Women by Sophie Hannah (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the 100 best crime stories written by women, selected and introduced by award-winning author Sophie Hannah. From Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier, to Val McDermid and Margaret Atwood, women writers have long been drawn to cr ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Common People by Tony Birch
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A searing novel, a powerful call for collectivism, and one of the biggest American debuts of 2021 During a night of power outages, arson and gunfire, the diverse neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville comes under attack by a white supremacist mob. Fleeing for their lives in an abandoned bus, a gr ...Show more
Anonymous Sex by Hillary Jordan & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (edited by)
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity… A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference · Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire · In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be · A young ...Show more
The Art of the Glimpse - 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinéad Gleeson (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019. There have been many anthologies of the sho ...Show more
Funny Ha, Ha: 80 Of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton (ed.)
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
The Sunday Times Humour Book of the YearA special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of the funniest stories ever written, selected by comedian Paul Merton.From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to laugh. Her ...Show more
Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, but each of them seems desti ...Show more
That Glimpse Of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one volume. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both ...Show more
Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'The god of small stories - A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'An American master' Daily TelegraphA woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A group of friends, all once promising, reunite for dinner w ...Show more