The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (Brown Stewart)(Paperback)

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (Carol Oates Joyce)(Paperback)

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many different, unexpected gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Dunn Douglas)(Paperback)

The Oxford Book of French Short Stories (Fallaize Elizabeth)(Paperback)

This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the

The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (Poynting Jeremy)(Paperback)

Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean short stories, reinforcing the view that the short story is the Caribbean literary form par excellence. This anthology draws from those collections, plus a few guests, focusing on work written over the

Mr Jolly (Stewart Michael)(Paperback)

Mr Jolly is the first collection of short stories by Michael Stewart, and contains some of the award-winning novelist's most extraordinary writing to date. Each tale offers a unique, utterly compelling insight into the human condition, framed by a mind-bendingly original concept that no other

Spanish-American Short Stories / Cuentos Hispanoamericanos: A Dual-Language Book (Appelbaum Stanley)(Paperback)

These seventeen stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles -- from worldly sophistication to outright savagery. Ranging in publication dates from 1867 to 1922, each story is by a different writer from a different

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Rubin Jay)(Paperback)

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, author of Killing Commendatore A Penguin Classics Hardcover This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story,

Seventeen Scottish Short Stories (Aitken Brian)(Paperback)

A book of short stories with some personal memoirs about those on the margins of Scottish society who, though largely unseen, give a gritty texture, colour, pathos, humour and sometimes triumph to the Scottish nation. Their stories are relevant, poignant and timeless in theme and should be

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (Byatt A. S.)(Paperback)

From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories encompasses comedy and tragedy, farce and

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (McPherson Alan)(Paperback)

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day. Engages in debates about the economic, military,

Short!: A Book of Very Short Stories (Crossley-Holland Kevin)(Paperback)

Penguin Book of American Short Stories (Cochrane James)(Paperback / softback)

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of

Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Bradbury Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J G Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Kazuo

Second Persephone Book of Short Stories(Paperback / softback)

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (Cox Michael)(Paperback)

The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more

Short Stories of George Mackay Brown - (Scotnotes Study Guides) (Bicket Linden)(Paperback / softback)

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes (Hughes Langston)(Paperback)

The Short Stories of Langston HughesThis collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been

Uncommon Type: Some Stories (Hanks Tom)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today - A collection of 'first-rate' short stories (The New York Times) that explore--with great affection, humor, and insight--the human condition in all its foibles. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern

Hawthorne's Short Stories (Hawthorne Nathaniel)(Paperback)

Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of

Twice Last Night (Brown William)(Paperback)

This collection of short stories is highly entertaining and impressive due to the variety it contains. Most of the stories have an element of humour unique to Scotland. The variety of stories ranges from teenage tearaways reforming their lives to success coming from poverty, to the effects of a

The Best American Short Stories 2021 (Ward Jesmyn)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward 'One of the most searing and singularly gifted writers working today' (Entertainment Weekly), Jesmyn Ward, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the

Twist in the Tale (Archer Jeffrey)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling book of short stories from the number one bestselling

Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater (Scott Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

This new collection of short stories from an award-winning writer explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (Shippey Tom)(Paperback)

This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre--science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered