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Short Stories

The latest Everyman Pocket Classic. From fancy dress at Manderley, to rakish ex-pats on the Riviera, revelry abounds in this pocket-sized covorting of literary greats.

Party Stories

Ella Carr

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Dark, squelchy, earthy and lyrical. Short stories concerned with nature and survival from a thrilling voice.

Pulse

Cynan Jones

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Keegan's first collection of luminous, subtle stories, in hardback for the first time.

Antarctica

Claire Keegan

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Keegan's second collection of stories, as above, in hardback for the first time.

Walk the Blue Fields

Claire Keegan

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By the bestselling Chinese master of sci-fi, author of The Three-Body Problem.

The Collected Short Stories

Cixin Liu

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Five short stories pondering mortality. (He knows a bit about it.)

The Eleventh Hour

Salman Rushdie

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A new selection of Tillman's bold, anarchic fictions. Frank, unusual and full of delight.

Thrilled to Death

Lynne Tillman

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Pretty clothbound hardback that includes nine stories in addition to A Child's Christmas in Wales, mostly autobiographical ones drawn from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Gloriously f... read more

A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas

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Three comic stories concerning Violet, a marvellous giantess who defies the norms of fairy-tales and society alike. This spoof biography of a family friend, with blizzards of sugared almonds... read more

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories

Virginia Woolf

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A collection of short crime stories that refract the multitudinous nature of Hamburg and its inhabitants.

Hamburg Noir

Jan Karsten

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A new gathering of these scintillating stories, by a supreme practitioner of the dark art of tingling spines.

After Midnight: Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours ...

Daphne du Maurier

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An anthology of new, chilling short stories by Abir Mukherjee, Janice Hallett, Stuart Turton and others.

Monstrous Tales: Haunting encounters with Britain’s mythical bea ...

Rosie Andrews

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Unnervingly taut tales.

Good and Evil and Other Stories

Samanta Schweblin

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Edited by the author of the ingenious thriller Untraceable. Includes lesser-known modern writers as well as Nabokov, Mandelstam, Gogol et al.

Defiant Voices: Russian Short Stories from the 19th to the 21st Centur ...

Sergei Lebedev

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Short stories with a cast including Bertie Wooster, Aunt Dahlia, Jeeves, Mr Mulliner and others.

A Few Quick Ones

P G Wodehouse

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A short story set in the mountains of Albania by this wonderful, thoughtful writer. Published by the tiny and discerning Hazel Press.

Pear Trees

Laura Beatty

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A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez

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Four stories written in the author's 70s - a late flowering of her talent.

The Soldier’s Hat

Sidonie-Gabriel Colette

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A deliciously nasty buffet of genre-inflected stories spanning horror, sci-fi, fable and even a surreal series of restaurant reviews. Lurking in each is that ravening, animal craving for foo... read more

She’s Always Hungry

Eliza Clark

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Entirely new stories from contemporary gothic authors such as Bridget Collins, Elizabeth Macneal, Natasha Pulley and Imogen Hermes Gower.

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights ...

Bridget Collins

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A dozen stories - De Maupassant, Némirovsky, Daudet et al - in a sweet little hardback.

A French Christmas: Festive tales for a Joyeux Noël ...

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The title novella concerns a relationship between an ageing Polish pianist and a stylish patroness in Barcelona. This is the twice Booker-winner's first fiction in seven years.

The Pole and Other Stories

J.M. Coetzee

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The actor and director is a fine writer, as many will recall from his memoirs. These stories are witty (of course), intermittantly dissolute and beguiling.

The American No

Rupert Everett

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Life in the Soviet Union as a series of tragi-comic stories - by the author of Last Summer in Baden Baden.

The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works

Leonid Tsypkin

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A new collection of stories from the much-awarded author of Attrib. and Other Stories and The Liar's Dictionary.

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

Eley Williams

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Humorous, dour, absurdist: a selection of short stories by the author of We, in a new translation.

X and Other Stories

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Short stories - almost vignettes - of the lives of working-class young women in Battersea and Clapham Junction, first published in 1963, at the same time as Dunn's husband, Jeremy Sandford, ... read more

Up The Junction

Nell Dunn

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A handful of stories about five women whose recent experiences of difficult or painful events are leavened by life-enhancing - even life-altering - moments.

Dead-End Memories

Banana Yoshimoto

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We will be very sorry to see Handheld Press go - this, their penultimate publication, celebrates Nesbit's eye for the domestic uncanny in Edwardian England.

The House of Silence: Ghost Stories, 1887-1920

E Nesbit

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Six stories from the author of A Gentleman In Moscow.

Table For Two

Amor Towles

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Short stories and excerpts by Seth, Turgenev, Woolf, Mansfield, Nabokov, Angelou and many others. A new addition to the Everyman anthologies in stripey jackets.

Music Stories

Wesley Stace

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For the 25th birthday of Persephone Books: includes work by Nemirovsky, Pilcher, Whipple, Carol Shields, Sian James and others.

The Third Book of Persephone Short Stories

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The Golden Apples

Eudora Welty

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Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd’s Writings ...

Nan Shepherd

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Vermeer’s Milkmaid: And Other Stories

Manuel Rivas

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Lucky Breaks

Yevgenia Belorusets

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