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(Paperback)
By: Richard Yates
ISBN: 9780099518549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
(Hardback, Special edition)
By: Patrick OBrian
ISBN: 9780008525439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of OBrians short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant OBrian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate enough to be journeying with him for the very first time.
(Paperback)
By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780141441986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A consummate storyteller, the author made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.
(Paperback)
By: Barry Gifford
ISBN: 9781609808600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Sixty-four linked tales of innocence, memory, and growing up, by American master Barry Gifford.
(Hardback)
By: Barry Gifford
ISBN: 9781609807894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Sixty-four linked tales of innocence, memory, and growing up, by American master Barry Gifford.
(Paperback)
By: Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9780099507055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A collection of stories which range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a ghost story, 'The Pram', about a Polish nanny who scares her charge's older sisters.
(Paperback)
By: Bret Lott
ISBN: 9780345494702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780571244614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed it had drunk its fill.Edited by Christopher Ricks
(Paperback, Main)
By: David Marcus
ISBN: 9780571230457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A new collection of the new generation of Irish writers.
(Paperback)
By: Sam Pink
ISBN: 9781593766818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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Titles from separate title pages; works bound back to back and inverted.
(Paperback)
By: Flix J. Palma
ISBN: 9781501164040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Atria Books
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"All of these stories have been previously published in Spanish in Los ar\ancnidos, Las Interioridades, and El menor espectaculo del mundo"--Copyright page.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781590176641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: New York Review Books
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We think of Honore de Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy.
(Paperback)
By: Sam Pink
ISBN: 9781593765934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2020
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in todays hyper-capitalist economy. The Guardian
(Paperback)
By: S.P Tenhoff
ISBN: 9781609809645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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A delicate and profound debut collection of short stories.
(Paperback)
By: Dionne Irving
ISBN: 9781646220663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Catapult
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(Hardback)
By: Jo Nesbo
ISBN: 9781787303126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback, Media tie-in)
By: Lore Segal
ISBN: 9781685891947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2024
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Jan Carson
ISBN: 9781781620618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd
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Agatha Christie-obsessed Alma faces her toughest case yet as she tries to help them all find what they've lost.
With trademark wit and playfulness, in this stunning linked short-story collection Jan Carson explores complex family dynamics, ageing, immigration, gender politics, the decline of the Church and the legacy of the Troubles.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Tove Jansson
ISBN: 9781908745361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2014
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Jansson's debut collection translated for the first time into English, to coincide with the centenary of her birth
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By: Julianne Pachico
ISBN: 9780571329809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A haunting debut collection of stories from the extraordinarily talented new writer, Julianne Pachico.
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By: Djuna Barnes
ISBN: 9780571352470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.
(Hardback)
By: Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781556435195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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By the winner of the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Life Achievement awards, this latest volume--written between 1957 and 1960--finds Sturgeon in fine form as he gains recognition for the first time as a literary short story writer.
(Paperback)
By: Omer Friedlander
ISBN: 9781399803946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'Extraordinarily imaginative . . . every one of these stories moved me' SIGRID NUNEZ; an exceptional short story collection set in conflict zones in the Middle East by a prize-winning debut author
(Paperback)
By: Omer Friedlander
ISBN: 9781399803953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'Extraordinarily imaginative . . . every one of these stories moved me' SIGRID NUNEZ; an exceptional short story collection set in conflict zones in the Middle East by a prize-winning debut author
