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The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a b...

'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know. A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley Jackson: the long-neglected Celia Fremlin wrote short, sharp stories that threw women's lives into shiver-inducing relief. In each of these twinned tales, a mother and daughter meet again, and an ordinary home becomes the setting for a return of the repressed.

This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.

First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace a...

An anthology of Russian short fiction includes stories by Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn. This 1981 Penguin Books Paperback is in good condition. ISBN: 9780140048162 SKU: 1575141 This image is of the actual book.

A stunning new collection of short stories from master storyteller Owen Marshall. So much is chance, don't you think Accidental meetings, unexpected turns in the road, job offers that take you into new territories - our lives seem arbitrary and unpredictable, as if at the whim of the god of fortune....

Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha push at the boundaries of writt...

IN STORE NOW The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always found a way. I was the guy that couldn't be stopped. From the world's number one thrill...

The first complete collection of A.A. Milne's short stories, including several never published before. A.A. Milne's real passion lay beyond Winnie-the-Pooh, as this new prose collection reveals. Collected in full for the first time, including a number previously unpublished, here are his complete sh...

Is your head full of ideas but you don't know how to turn them into fantastic tales Do you start lots of stories but run out of steam half way through Maybe you want to write but you don't know how to structure your work How To Write Stories is the answer Find out how to come up with convincing char...

This 1990 Oxford University Press Paperback is in fair condition. Tanned. ISBN: 9780192811219 SKU: 1576432 This image is of the actual book.

First edition. This 1944 Penguin Books Paperback is in fair condition. Foxed; tanning; first page top corner torn off. SKU: 1576182 This image is of the actual book.

A stunning new collection of short stories from master storyteller Owen Marshall. So much is chance, dont you think Accidental meetings, unexpected turns in the road, job offers that take you into new territories: our lives seem arbitrary and unpredictable, as if at the whim of the god of fortune. I...

Katherine Mansfield's clear sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving resonant full of light and colour they range from short sharp studies to longer richer tales encompassing her three major volumes Bliss Th...

Each of these twenty-one stories is set in Dubai and the Gulf, and each explores the universal themes of faith, love, betrayal and the flaws of the human nature. Mohammed Al Murr is one of the Gulf's best-known short-story writers, and the impresario of surprise. With an ironic sense of humour, Al M...

In the wake of Hilary Mantel's captivating memoir, GIVING UP THE GHOST, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Published to coincide with their dramatisation on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. This sharp, funny collection of loosely autob...

Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like ...

In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories', Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls house of her childhood and the way in which its u...

To help shape your child's spiritual growth, this collection of short Quran Stories is a great gift. Written in simple language, this collection of short stories is a good way to start and nurture your young child's love for the Qur'an. Author: Saniyasnain Khan Format: Board Book Pages: 39 Publisher: Goodword Published: 2021 ISBN: 9789389766202 Dimensions: 21x16x3cm

AUTHOR: Courtney Sina Meredith Tail of the Taniwha is Merediths first book of short stories and follows her much lauded 2012 collection of poems Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick (Beatnik Publishing) and multi-award-winning 2010 play Rushing Dolls (Playmarket, 2012). Fabulously sassy, Meredith turn...

'My only concern', John McGahern once said, is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply. The Country Funeral witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern's st...

Who was she Where was she going Why did she return It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman. Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missi...

H:30 x W:20 x D:0.1 cm - Every household needs a set of rules to live by and this metal wall sign features seven unique guiding stars for witches including Don't bring spirits into the house unless they're in a bottle. Sure to make visitors laugh and become a favoured piece of home decor.