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By: Shruti Swamy
ISBN: 9781643751450
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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A debut collection of literary short stories about identity, desire, mortality, sexuality, and motherhood from an award-winning Indian-American author.
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By: Thersa Matsuura
ISBN: 9781582434896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Simon Oldfield
ISBN: 9781471147333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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An unusual short story collection, pairing together established, highly acclaimed authors with talented new writers whom they admire, curated by the co-founder of Pin Drop.
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By: Donal Ryan
ISBN: 9781784160241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 10th March 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and cling on to love, often in desperate circumstances.
In haunting and often startling prose, Donal Ryan has captured the brutal beauty of the human heart in all its hopes and failings.
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By: Rachel Joyce
ISBN: 9781784162047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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As read on Radio 4, seven linked stories set in the Christmas holidays - all as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be:
A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended.
(Paperback)
By: Jov Ortua Almero
ISBN: 9789815127829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Penguin Random House SEA
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(Paperback)
By: Primo Levi
ISBN: 9780141188911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection of short stories that opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. It includes stories such as: "The Fugitive", "Magic Paint", "Gladiators", "The Knall", and, "The Tranquil Star".
(Hardback)
By: F.H. Batacan
ISBN: 9781641295116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th March 2025
Publisher: Soho Press
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By: Deirdre Madden
ISBN: 9780571311033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The fifth volume of new Irish short stories to be published by Faber and Faber, in a series established by the late David Marcus
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By: A.L. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780099587422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book.
She doesnt ever lie to him unless its for the best.
A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them.
(Paperback)
By: Adrian Michael Kelly
ISBN: 9781770414174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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A collection of linked short stories about fathers, sons, and the complicated reality that is family.
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By: Petina Gappah
ISBN: 9780571351794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.
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By: Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9781805330332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Hardback)
By: Rick DeMarinis
ISBN: 9781583226377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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New collection of stories from a writer whose "art...is of a very high order"--Russell Banks in New York Times
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By: Mikael Niemi
ISBN: 9780099490722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Helps you navigate your way through the goings on of outer space. This title allows you to discover the most popular and most pungent Earth mementos taken into space and illuminate the murkiest areas of human knowledge: the meaning of the oldest writing in the universe, who set off the big bang, and the catalyst for the death of literature.
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By: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
ISBN: 9781590176702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2014
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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The unlikely stories in Autobiography of a Corpse ask you to take a second look at the cracks in everyday reality.
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By: Danielle Lazarin
ISBN: 9780349134628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurface
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By: Annie Proulx
ISBN: 9780007198870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain.
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By: Raymond Carver
ISBN: 9780099540328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date.
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By: John Boyne
ISBN: 9781784160999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Hensher
ISBN: 9781841596266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2019
Publisher: Everyman
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Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architecture - largely a creation of the progressive 19th century, laid waste by World War II, temporary home of the infamous Wall - and in ways of living and behaving.
(Paperback)
By: Sarah Lyn Rogers
ISBN: 9781646222018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2023
Publisher: Catapult
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(Hardback)
By: Douglas Coupland
ISBN: 9781039000520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Random House Canada
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(Paperback)
By: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099481553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What will you get for your birthday this year A chance to see into the future Or a reminder of the imperfect past The author has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. This title presents these stories.
