Treasures of Cornwall
£9.99A beguiling anthology of poetry and prose for everyone who loves Cornwall.
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The selected stories of Elizabeth Bowen
£9.99A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies’ hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil. Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this selection brings Elizabeth Bowen’s finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen’s ability to evoke ineffable emotions – grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread – and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen’s native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz.
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A spy in the house of love
£9.99‘A Spy in the House of Love’ expresses Nin’s individual vision of feminine sexuality with a ferocious dramatic force. Through Sabrina’s affairs with four men, she lays bare all the duplicity and fragmentation of self involved in the search for love.
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The lagoon
£9.99Introducing ‘Little Clothbound Classics’: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
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The Penguin book of Spanish short stories
£12.99This collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices and giants of Spain’s literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and LeopolÃdo Alas, through Mercè Rodoreda and Manuel Rivas, to Javier Marias.
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Dream story
£9.99‘Dream Story’ is an erotic novel that tells how, through a simple sexual admission, a husband and wife are driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge.
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Of mice and men
£9.99The childlike Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragile dream of owning land where they will ‘belong’, their paradisial future is soon shattered.
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Bliss
£9.99Katherine Mansfield’s perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield’s stories were integral in shaping the Modernist movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories, including ‘Bliss’, ‘The Garden Party’ and ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’.
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The enchanted April
£9.99‘The Enchanted April’, Elizabeth von Arnim’s irrepressible novella, tells the tale of four very different women who, on answering an advertisement in The Times, find themselves far away from the drizzle of London and instead in the warmth of an Italian sun. There, alongside the lapping of the Mediterranean, the women’s spirits begin to shift, and quite unexpected changes take place.
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Moonlight
£9.99Often described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is his most famous story, ‘Boule de Suif’, as well as tales of love, such as the brilliant ‘Happiness’, and the supernatural, like the chilling ‘The Horla’.
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About love
£9.99Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov’s short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and deep, powerful mystery. Collected here are five of his very best tales, ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’, ‘The House with the Mezzanine’, and the trilogy of stories, ‘The Man in the Case’, ‘Gooseberries’ and ‘About Love’.
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The shutter of snow
£9.99Some days, Marthe Gail believes she is God; others, Jesus Christ. Her baby, she thinks, is dead. The red light is shining. There are bars on the window. And the voices keep talking. Time blurs; snow falls. The doctors say it is a breakdown; that this is Gorestown State Hospital. Her fellow patients become friends and enemies, moving between the Day Room and Dining Hall, East Hall and West Side, avoiding the Strong Room. Her husband visits and shows her a lock of her baby’s hair, but she doesn’t remember, yet – until she can make it upstairs, ascending towards release. Shocking and hilarious, tragic and visceral, this experimental portrait of motherhood and mental illness written in 1930 – just before Woolf’s ‘The Waves’ and 33 years before Plath’s ‘The Bell Jar’ – has never felt more visionary.