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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.
(Paperback)
By: Bernard MacLaverty
ISBN: 9781529114256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Various
ISBN: 9781786073334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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An anthology of short stories by the best thirty-nine Latin American authors under the age of forty
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By: DeWitt Henry
ISBN: 9780807062357
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Hardback)
By: Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN: 9781556433986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2002
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: Gayl Jones
ISBN: 9780349016887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones
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By: Eugenio Montale
ISBN: 9781681378169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2024
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Alice Munro
ISBN: 9781841593029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Everyman
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Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include 'Royal Beatings', in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation;
(Hardback)
By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN: 9781598537192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Paperback)
By: Louise Stern
ISBN: 9781847081773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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An extraordinary debut collection of stories, which reveal how the world looks when you're young, hip, wild and deaf.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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By: Robert Aickman
ISBN: 9781681371894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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