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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
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Table For Two
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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
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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
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Vermeer’s Milkmaid: And Other Stories
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Lucky Breaks
Paperback £9.99 -
The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories
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Shoko’s Smile
Paperback £9.99 -
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
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Saki’s Cats
Paperback £6.99 -
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Kew Gardens
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Lilly and Her Slave
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Grand Union
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A remarkably assured and polished first short story collection about the obsessive, ungraspable relationship we have with our own bodies.
Amphibian and Other 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.
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories
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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
The Body of the Soul: Stories
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Table for One: Stories
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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.
The New Dress and Other 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.
The Damned Thing: Weird and Ghostly Tales
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Our Strangers
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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
Roman 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
True North: Selected Stories
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Night Side of the River
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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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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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Dublin lives: seventeen stories from the C20th and C21st by as many writers. Authors include Joyce, Behan, McGahern, Elizabeth Bowen and Kevin Power.
Dublin Tales
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Normal Rules Don’t Apply
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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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Based on his own experiences of totalitarian brutality and suppression in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. Powerful and unflinching.
A Long Night’s Stories
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After the Funeral
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The Golden Pot: and Other Tales of the Uncanny
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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.
Tales of the Art World: And Other Stories
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The Complete Short Stories
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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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Spanning a century of Korean writing, this anthology is a fine introduction to the tropes and tensions of Korean fiction.
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
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Old Babes In The Wood: Stories
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Wild Places: Selected Stories
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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.
Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories
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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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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
Scottish Stories
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Stories of Books and Libraries
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The Private Life of Spies
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Ancient Sorceries
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Liberation Day
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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
Nocturnal Apparitions: Essential Stories
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2
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From Virgil to Elena Ferrante, via Sciascia and Morante: a new Everyman anthology in one of their pleasingly stripey jackets.
Stories of Southern Italy
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An anthology of Oates' sinister short stories, from the first thirty years of her long writing career.
Extenuating Circumstances
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Short stories set in corporate Tokyo from the author of Convenience Store Woman, her prose as cool as her characters are chilling.
Life Ceremony
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Punishment
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A stellar second collection: each character and action is precisely observed, each story is shot with humour and pathos. Humane and wistful, these stories - mostly set in Ireland, in County ... read more
Homesickness
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Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love
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A new selection of Babel's stories that vividly portray the rough and tumble of life in Odessa and its surroundings.
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories
Paperback £12.00