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'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.

The original vision of Grimms tales in English for the first time. When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebra...

The original vision of Grimms tales in English for the first time. When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebra...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes. Written by Anna Burns before ...

'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...

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known ...

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alo...

'You have to marry outside your clan, she said. That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone. When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Chero...

A beautifully illustrated and enchanting collection of treasured fairy tales from the extraordinarily talented author-illustrator Sandra Dieckmann. Enchanted forests, wild animals, powerful princesses and brave heroes an enthralling and divinely illustrated collection of Grimm's fairy tales from int...

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...

Format 261 x 211mm 96pg Hardback. Snuggle up and read classic fairy tales, rhymes and stories with your 3 year old, who will absolutely love hearing these read aloud before bedtime. 3-year-old children will enjoy stories such as Chicken Little and Rapunzel, featuring beautiful artwork throughout

Format 261 x 211mm 96pg Hardback Snuggle up and read classic fairy tales, rhymes and stories with your 4 year old, who will absolutely love hearing these read aloud before bedtime. 4-year-old children will enjoy stories such as Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella, featuring beautiful artwork throughout.

Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life. and death. A prince has a surprising awakening. A beauty fights like a beast. A bo...

Format 261 x 211mm 96pg Hardback Snuggle up and read classic fairy tales, rhymes and stories with your 2 year old, who will absolutely love hearing these read aloud before bedtime. 2-year-old children will enjoy stories such as Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks, featuring beautiful artwork throughout.

From Little Red Riding Hood to Three Little Pigs, introduce little ones to the joy of fairy tales with bright, beautiful artwork and easy-to-lift card flaps revealing a hidden surprise on every page Featuring seven favourite stories to read together - and a QR code to scan with rhymes to listen to a...

From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems. The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven intercon...

The much-loved children's author and illustrator Val Biro introduces Charles Perrault and retells seven of his most famous tales: Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Diamonds and Toads, Cinderella, Hop o My Thumb, and The Ridiculous Wishes - all illustrated with Biro's wonderfully animated pictures. Age 4

In this highly giftable volume, the best-loved legends of the Emerald Isle come to life. Discover the magic of Ireland's most treasured stories with. William Butler Yeats charming storytelling style captures the spirit of Ireland's timeless myths and legends. Young and old will love these stories of...

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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...

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