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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.