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A collection of short stories that goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than one step away. It is a selection of tales for our times that shows a side to the author you have never seen before.

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The Israeli masters exceptional final novel

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017

Shmuel a young, idealistic student has abandoned his studies in Jerusalem, taking a live-in job as a companion to a cantankerous old man.

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Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PEDRO ALMODVAR
The lives of trans Latinx come alive in this cocktail of bleakness and joy de vivre that depicts a community living on the wrong side of the American dream.

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A daisy chain of eight interlinking stories that reads like a novel, this collection from Cuban-born writer Sonia Rivera-Valdes introduces a circle of loosely connected Latin immigrants in New York City.

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Learning with Kelsey Mac is a simple sentence book that follows Kelsey Mac as she learns five new things. She will explore simple learning tasks with different learning resources.

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This beautiful, deluxe slipcased edition of Tolkiens famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas to his children includes for the first time every available letter, picture and envelope that he sent them, reproduced in glorious colour. The perfect Christmas gift for Tolkien lovers of all ages.

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A wickedly dark, multi-award-winning noir novel in translation about corruption in the Argentine state.

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and they faithfully transcribed what they saw and felt in the stories they told of London town. and all tell their stories gratifyingly well.

Authors include John Evelyn, Thomas de Quincey, W.

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Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

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An uplifting, life-affirming epistolary novel about overcoming loneliness and finding happiness, perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Where Rainbows End.

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A haunting collection of stories from an author twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

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A brand new selection of Maupassant's finest stories, including an original preface by Joseph Conrad.

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The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding another's destiny at first glance. The very first investigation by eager young police secretary Jules Maigret leads him to a wealthy Paris family's dark secrets.

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A stunning new story collection from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, acclaimed author ofKintuand winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize2014 and theWindham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018

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Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s--but deemed too subversive even to show to a publisher--the seven tales presented here attest to Krzhizhanovsky's boundless imagination, black humor and breathtaking irony.

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Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling.

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Midnight All Day by Hanif Kureishi is a collection of short stories which confirm Kureishi's reputation as Britain's foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed.

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Specially commissioned short story collection with stellar contributors, all based on the stories behind favourite operas.