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The American No

Rupert Everett

Medusa's Ankles

A S Byatt

A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writingWith an introduction by David MitchellByatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors...

The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

William Boyd

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute.A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year...

We Live in Water

Jess Walter

From Jess Walter, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, comes We Live in Water - a darkly funny, utterly compelling collection of stories about the American family.We Live in Water brings to vivid life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal...

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Nathan Englander , Etgar Keret , Miriam Shlesinger , Sondra Silverston

Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection.A man barges into a writer's house and,...

Diamond Dust & Other Stories

Anita Desai

Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. Her protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the...

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

Richard Yates

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a...

Pistols For Two

Georgette Heyer

A peerless collection of romantic tales from one of our best-known and beloved historical novelists.Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; and affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades...

Einstein's Monsters

Martin Amis

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms...

Matters Of Life & Death

Bernard Maclaverty

Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without question - one of the finest contemporary examples of the short story as a genre. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of...

Mere Anarchy

Woody Allen

'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen's first collection in over 25 years,...

Rumpole Rests His Case

John Mortimer

Rumpole Rests His Case - seven hilarious stories starring John Mortimer's unforgettable barristerThe comic, courageous, and corpulent HoraceRumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity"...