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(Hardback)
By: Val McDermid
ISBN: 9780751581775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A collection of atmospheric short stories written by internationally bestselling, award-winning Queen of Crime Val McDermid. A fabulous festive treat featuring classic tales alongside exclusive, never-before-seen material.
(Hardback)
By: Diana Secker Tesdell
ISBN: 9781841596006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2007
Publisher: Everyman
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As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired topics ranging from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination. This work features stories that is imbued with Christmas spirit of one kind or another. It also includes: "Green Holly"; "The Night Before Christmas"; "Vanka"; "The Burglar's Christmas"; and "Dancing Dan's Christmas".
(Paperback)
By: Cynthia Ozick
ISBN: 9781474624046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powers
(Hardback)
By: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9781857152760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2004
Publisher: Everyman
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(Hardback)
By: Lorrie Moore
ISBN: 9781841593937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Everyman
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These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9780141191355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power there; a husband abandons his wife as they honeymoon in the South American jungle; and a boy's drug-induced transformation leads to cruelty enjoyed and suffered.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Robert Aickman
ISBN: 9781681371894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: New York Review Books
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(Hardback)
By: ConstanceFenimore Woolson
ISBN: 9781598536508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: The Library of America
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A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of 19th-century America's greatest woman writer.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Martin
ISBN: 9781250798640
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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The follow-up to his classic-in-the-making debut Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for America is a collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement
(Paperback, Main)
By: John McGahern
ISBN: 9780571237852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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McGahern's spare, restrained yet powerfully lyrical language draws meaning from the most ordinary situations, and turns apparently undramatic encounters into profoundly haunting events
(Paperback)
By: Various Authors
ISBN: 9781782276517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
(Paperback)
By: Limmy
ISBN: 9781784750275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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There are upside-down stories.
There are normal-way-up stories.
There are weird stories.
There are less weird stories.
There are really weird stories.
There is nothing else like it.
Have a read.
(Paperback)
By: William Melvin Kelley
ISBN: 9781787478053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A collection of seventeen stories, from the author of A Different Drummer.
(Paperback)
By: Henry Shukman
ISBN: 9780099468486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Jim Rogers once had everything: a successful career, the love of a beautiful woman, a Manhattan penthouse and more money than he knew what to do with. Though it wasn't the money he was worried about but a sheet of folded paper, which he'd just been given by the mysterious Albert Jones: a piece of paper that might have saved his life.
(Paperback)
By: Leonora Brito
ISBN: 9780241999516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Julia O'Faolain
ISBN: 9780571351947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.
(Paperback)
By: Katie Gossett
ISBN: 9781098324230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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Are you ready to explore a day in the life of a firefighter Dax the fire dog and his best friend The Chief work at Station 3, and are ready to show you around! Feel the excitement when the fire alarm sounds, and Dax rides on the firetruck ready to help! But will Dax be able to do the job The Chief gives him Come ride along to see!
(Paperback)
By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
ISBN: 9781640097360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2025
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Hardback)
By: Mick Herron
ISBN: 9781529371260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From the bestselling and award winning 'master of the spy thriller' comes a collection of riveting short stories
(Paperback)
By: Maeve Binchy
ISBN: 9780099498582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career...
This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends is Maeve Binchy at her best - her trademark warmth, wit and compassion are unmistakeable.
(Hardback)
By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9781883011932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9781784876999
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true...
Here are Richard Wright's stories of eight men - black men, living at violent odds with the white world around them.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Yan Ge
ISBN: 9780571373123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star - nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing.
(Paperback)
By: Nelson Algren
ISBN: 9781644215128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 9th December 2025
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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