Item category 1: Short Stories

In 'Barcelona', we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous au...

In 'Barcelona', we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous au...

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. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order t...

The prestigious annual story anthology includes prize-winning stories by Jamil Jan Kochai, David Ryan, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Lisa Taddeo, Ling Ma, Catherine Lacey, and Cristina Rivera Garza. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twen...

The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its fourth year with a guest editor format and with a new bestselling track record. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published ...

'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.' Forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began Neuromancer and, more importantly, 'Cyberpunk' - a literary movement that would change the face of science fiction forever. In 'The Big Book of Cyberpunk', awar...

The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. In these stories, an entomologist solves cold cases and upholds a sense of justice by studying the decay of cor...

From hilarious episodes in the life of a new mother, through stories of awkward dates and mismatched friendship, to tales of village scandal and young con artistry, these sparkling stories by female writers range across a multitude of genres and themes.