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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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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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The author draws on myth and folklore in this fine collection of her stories; some readers will remember her wonderful work of non-fiction Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Fo... read more
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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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Dublin lives: seventeen stories from the C20th and C21st by as many writers. Authors include Joyce, Behan, McGahern, Elizabeth Bowen and Kevin Power.
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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 re-issue of Bierce's unsettling tales. The author of The Devil's Dictionary was also an inspiration for Lovecraft, as the title hints.
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A new collection of short stories by the acclaimed writer who moved to Rome in 2012 and now only writes in Italian. Her many awards include a Pulitzer prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Na... read more
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These spirits and their bizarre manifestations are not taken straight from the Japanese but rather from the English collections of the Meiji and Taisho eras, including those of Lafcadio Hear... read more
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Stories by the auctioneer, humorous and unsentimental: the vicissitudes of an art dealer and his rich clients, Schiele in session with Sigmund Freud, etc.
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Illiterate until he was 20, Choukri was a friend of Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams, and a significant influence on them.
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Short stories by Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston and many others. One of Pushkin Press's delightful small-format paperbacks.
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Based on his own experiences of totalitarian brutality and suppression in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. Powerful and unflinching.
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Spanning a century of Korean writing, this anthology is a fine introduction to the tropes and tensions of Korean fiction.
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An unassuming and quietly clever collection; its title story has a gaggle of nonagenarians plotting to spring their friend from an old folks' home.
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A stripey-jacketed anthology from Everyman; includes stories by John Buchan, Walter Scott, Muriel Spark, Author Conan Doyle, James Hogg, Margaret Oliphant, Ali Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson,... read more
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Du Maurier, Townsend Warner, three Elizabeths (Bowen, Taylor and Jane Howard) as well as lesser-known names such as Inez Holden and Attia Hosain. There is much to enjoy here.
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Born in Austrian Galicia in what is now Ukraine, Schulz is one of the great Eastern European writers of the C20th. Sadly - and oddly - he has been out of print for several years; we are ther... read more
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An anthology of Oates' sinister short stories, from the first thirty years of her long writing career.