Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and

Liars in Love (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up daughters, estranged sisters, office friendships or fleeting love affairs, the pieces in this collection showcase Richard Yates's extraordinary gift for observation and his understanding of human

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring

Revolutionary Road (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be

Special Providence (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. Richard Yates's novel is both tender and ironic as he follows Bobby's adventures and disasters and reflects on the intense but complicated bond between mother and

Easter Parade (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. Although the bond between them endures, gradually the distance between the two women grows, until a tragic event throws their relationship

Best Bedtime Stories Ever (Scarry Richard)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of Richard Scarry's best loved stories, gathered together in the perfect bedtime storybook. Now in picture book

Cold Spring Harbor (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but stupid Evan Shepard, his doomed lover Rachel, and both their

Richard Matthewman Stories (McMillan Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Trajectory - A short story collection (Russo Richard)(Paperback / softback)

This new collection of stories demonstrates that Richard Russo - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls - is also a master of the short

Young Hearts Crying (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow, happier. In this magnificent novel, at once bitterly sad and achingly funny, Richard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme chronicler of the American Dream and its

Cold Spring Harbor (Yates Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house. However, after their swift marriage, things don't work out quite as planned and the stresses of living with Rachel's family, in their shared house in Cold Spring Harbor,

Saga Land - The Island Stories at the Edge of the World (Fidler Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories (Ford Richard)(Paperback)

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candorIn Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss.'Displaced'

Collected Poems 1943-2004 (Wilbur Richard)(Paperback)

With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters. Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most referenced trove of this beloved poet's best

The Best of Richard Matheson (Matheson Richard)(Paperback)

The definitive collection of terrifying stories by 'one of the greatest writers of the 20th century' (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am

Revenge of the Lawn - Stories 1962-1970 (Brautigan Richard)(Paperback / softback)

62 of Brautigan's ultra-short stories, reissued to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. Introduced by Sarah

Collected Stories (Cheever John)(Paperback / softback)

John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the

Law of Succession (Hedlund Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Stories (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the

Gould's Book of Fish (Flanagan Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Birds of Costa Rica (Garrigues Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Rage To Live - A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton (Lovell Mary S.)(Paperback / softback)

*A fascinating 'dual' biography of Richard and Isabel

Stories - Collected Stories (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)