Black Voices on Britain
£10.99A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean who together reflect Black experience in Britain.
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance
£10.99A powerful collection of poems and stories written by women of colour during the Harlem Renaissance.
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The complete poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
£8.99A new collection of Poe’s poetry which demonstrates his skilful and imaginative command of the English language. Often regarded as the founder of the modern short story Poe also laid the foundations for the symbolist poets and futurists of the 20th Century, his razor-sharp dissections of the world offering dark romantic notions to the reader.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
£9.99Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as Carson McCullers. This volume contains seven stories, beginning with ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’.
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The Queen of Spades
£9.99A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol. One of Pushkin’s most popular and chilling stories, ‘The Queen of Spades’ follows Hermann, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves.
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Passing
£9.99Fair, elegant, and ambitious, Clare is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family’s happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others – and the secret fears they have buried within themselves.
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Cosmicomics
£9.99This title features enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms – and have time for a love life.
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Lady Susan
£9.99Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society in the hope of a profitable new match – all while trying to marry off her unfortunate daughter. Told through a series of letters, Jane Austen’s magnificent first novel is as subversive as it is charming.
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The Lottery
£9.99Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson with a collection of her finest, creepiest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. This selection includes ‘The Lottery’, Jackson’s masterpiece and one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century.
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Hell Screen
£9.99Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.
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The Masque of the Red Death
£9.99Arguably America’s most influential short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of suspense never fail to spook and amaze. Gathered in this selection are his very best horror stories, including the gothic tour de force ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, the other-worldly ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, and the murderous ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’.
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The Prophet
£9.99Gibran’s protagonist, called ‘the Prophet’, delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life: love, marriage and children; work and play; possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow, death and more.