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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...

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...

'Tis the season to be haunting. An unexpected and unwelcome voice on the worlds first radio broadcast in 1908. A son who wont stop messaging his family on Facebook, although hes been dead for quite some time now. A frozen forest in a far north land where the sinister elf-kin lurk in the snow. A Scot...

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...

'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 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 Collected in full for the first time, including a number previously unpublished, here are his complete sh...

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...

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.

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.

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 ...

Past. Present. Future. In 1959 a schoolgirl is caught in the rivalry between two male teachers. In 1982 a New Zealander in her thirties is introduced to a snake in San Diego. In 2075 a government official drafts a summary of the first stage in NZ's new-style elections. These eighteen stories mark Ba...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Good Islamic short stories are almost as rare as red diamonds, but prove as dazzling and entrancing when found. This collection of unique, intriguing and powerful stories written in eloquent and captivating prose by an accomplished scholar, poet, and storyteller who converted to Islam after falling ...

Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill. Of all the preem...

'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...

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 ...

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

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...

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