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'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.Introducing Little Black...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"'Written for a local German journal and published in 1811, these fabulous, funny, jewel-like miniature tales describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders,...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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'At night, among the reeds on the bayou, Chicot could still hear the woman's wail, mingled now with the croaking of the frogs...'From one of the most daring writers of fin-de-siècle America, five stories of awakening that range from Louisiana's plantations and...
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Penguin
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2015-02-26
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This exceptional collection of stories is about young women of different ages, from their early teens to their late twenties, coming to terms with what it means to desire, and be desired, with funny, surprising and sometimes confronting results. Ulman first made her...
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E-Penguin
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2015-02-25
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A smart and spooky story about a boy who plays in his bassement, making tunnels out of cardboard boxes, and the unexpected results of his adventures. Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4R2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story...
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Headline
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2015-02-12
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'A gorgeous, accomplished debut' David MitchellBy internationally bestselling author Bret Anthony Johnston, WINNER of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2017.In Corpus Christi, Texas - a town often hit by hurricanes - parents, children, and lovers come together and...
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John Murray
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2015-02-12
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Over Our Heads: the brilliant debut by Andrew Fox.A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex, knowing the baby she's having is not his own. Travelling colleagues experience an eerie moment of truth when a fire starts in their hotel. A misdirected parcel sets off a...
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Penguin
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2015-02-05
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Jack's mother is a storyteller, a game-player. On an impulsive trip out to the family lake house, she spins a macabre tale for Jack and his father - a tale that, as the weekend progresses, Jack finds more and more difficult to untangle from his family's real life. Joe...
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Headline
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2015-01-29
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'Prepare to be dazzled. Edith Pearlman's latest, elating work confirms her place as one of the great modern short-story writers' Sunday Times'A genius of the short story' Guardian'A moreish treat from a master of the form' New Statesman'This majestic new collection is...
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John Murray
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2015-01-15
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Dr. Allinger the curator of a most unusual Museum of Silence, where he collects the dying breaths of people - including Edgar Allan Poe whose last gasp was for a drink. And, just occasionally, he getsa few curious visitors ...Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling...
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Headline
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2014-12-18
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Eric is a 20-something burnout who just lost a girlfriend and a job. Once, though, he was the Red Bolt, and with his home-made cape, he could fly. Now the cape is back in his hands, and Eric's future is looking up ... and up ... Joe Hill is the New York Times...
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Headline
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2014-12-04
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A delicious Christmas feast of short stories from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author ofA French Affair andA Wedding in Provence.'Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-12-04
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From Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa to Saneh Sangsuk, Uthis Haemamool and ten others, fourteen of the best Thai short stories translated – for the first time ever – during the year 2014. La fine fleur de la littérature thaïlandaise d’aujourd’hui.
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Thaifiction Publishing
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2014-12-03
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ThaiFiction
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This bumper Tenth Anniversary Edition of Girls' Night In brings together much-loved stories from the previous four books by some of the biggest names in women's fiction - Marian Keyes, Candace Bushnell, Cathy Kelly and Maggie Alderson, to name a few.Have fun and do good...
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E-Penguin
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2014-12-01
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Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's singular and opulent voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. From a bed that transforms the...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-11-27
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Fourteen stories set around the world, from the author of ROGUE MALE.A collection containing some of Household's most beloved tales.With stories ranging from playful hilarity among the Tropic of Capricorn to the savage realities of war and conflict in Cancer,...
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Orion
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2014-11-20
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A short story collection from the author of classic masterpiece ROGUE MALE.From the suspenseful and exciting to the heart-wrenchingly poignant, this 1987 collection is a striking example of some of the author's very best work. Stories across a vast array of styles,...
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Orion
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2014-11-20
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When a video clerk loses his job, he finds himself stumbling home past a shocking murder scene ...Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4R2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the...
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Headline
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2014-11-20
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Alicia Erian's deliciously grown-up debut may not be a book for nice girls, but it has a lot to teach us about the unruly nature of desire. A college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza waiter, a spelling champion spends her afternoons in the bath with...
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Review
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2014-11-06
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John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead ...Joe Hill is the New York Times...
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Headline
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2014-11-06
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