Short Stories
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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.
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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
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Entirely new stories from contemporary gothic authors such as Bridget Collins, Elizabeth Macneal, Natasha Pulley and Imogen Hermes Gower.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A new collection of stories from the much-awarded author of Attrib. and Other Stories and The Liar's Dictionary.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A remarkably assured and polished first short story collection about the obsessive, ungraspable relationship we have with our own bodies.
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The latest in Penguin's handsome and imaginative anthologies of national literatures: a hundred years of stories from the colonial period to the present.
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A new collection of short stories by one of Russia's foremost contemporary writers, author of The Big Green Tent, Daniel Stein, Interpreter and others. There is remarkably little of her work... read more
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The dress in question was worn by a guest at Mrs Dalloway's. A collection of most of Woolf's short stories.
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A re-issue of Bierce's unsettling tales. The author of The Devil's Dictionary was also an inspiration for Lovecraft, as the title hints.