Three Stories
"Father! Father! Burning Bright", "The Clothes They Stood Up in", "The Laying on of Hands"
Alan Bennett
Here are Alan Bennett's hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling novellas, brought together in one book for the first time: Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on...
The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries
Maxim Jakubowski
Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year's must-have collection of British crime fiction. This latest volume of the acclaimed annual collection presents over 20 short stories of...
My Favourite Year
A Collection of New Football Writing
Nick Hornby
Booktrust, Bookbite, read, reading, book, books, literature, short story, short stories, sports, sport, football
African Short Stories - African Writers Series
Chinua Achebe and C.L. Innes
This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa.
Stranger in the House
Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
Julie Summers
'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life.' From 1945, more than four million...
One World
A Global Anthology of Short Stories
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe. All belong to one world, united in their diversity and ethnicity....
The Homecoming and Other Stories
Maeve Binchy, Sean Campion, Joanna Myers, Patricia Hodge and Kate Binchy
This work features four Maeve Binchy short stories, exclusively written for BBC Radio 4. Maeve Binchy is one of Britain's most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate...
Best-Loved Short Stories
Evan Bates
Offers a selection of short stories by such authors as O. Henry, Gustave Flaubert, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce.
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
A.S. Byatt
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically...
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Charles Dickens
After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact...
Selected Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many...
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
M. R. James
M. R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of...
Doctor Who
Code of the Krillitanes
Justin Richards
'I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he's been too clever by half'. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever?...
Dear Granny Smith: A Letter from your Postman
Roy Mayall
This book is a letter to you, me, all of us, from a British postie. A fascinating, eye-opening, heartfelt letter which goes behind the scenes, through the ages,...
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: 'Over To You', 'Kiss Kiss', 'Someone Like You', 'Switch Bitch' and eight further stories:...
Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages
Oscar Wilde
Selected and presented by one of Wilde's biggest fans, the book includes a foreword from Stephen Fry, as well as introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they...
The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society
Breast Cancer Short Story Collection
Various
Irresistible tales of love, friendship, passion and betrayal from some of the top names in fiction. A woman planning not just what she wants to wear to a...
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