The Not-Dead and the Saved and Other Stories
£7.99A beautiful and moving collection of stories about love and loss from the 2009 BBC Short Story Award winner and poet.
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Something Like Happy
£8.99In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink and diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men – lonely, unfaithful, dying – driving empty roads at night. These are people for whom the idea of ‘home’ has become increasingly intangible, and happiness, grace and freedom all now seem to belong in some kind of dream or a fable they might have read in a children’s picture book.
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Dear Life
£9.99Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in ‘Dear Life’ build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be.
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Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
£9.99A collection of stories from the author of ‘Cold Comfort Farm’. The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste.
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The Doll Short Stories
£8.99In these short stories, some of which have been lost for decades and are collected here for the first time, du Maurier displays to full effect her remarkable imagination.
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What We Talk About When We Talk Love
£9.99In these stories, some only three or four pages long, plots are set in motion with astonishing speed, narration is colloquial and laconic, dialogue reveals an ear for the way people speak, and every story packs a devastating emotional charge.
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Sum Forty Tales From The Afterlifes
£9.99In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe & unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In these tales, David Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here & now.
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Hercule Poirot Complete Short Stories
£16.99All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years.
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Walk the blue fields
£9.99In her second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past, and it is against this landscape that the stories so beautifully articulate all the yearnings of the human heart.
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The view from Castle Rock
£9.99On a clear day, you could see ‘America’ from Edinburgh’s Castle Rock – or so said Alice Munro’s great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had taken drink. This is the story of those Ettrick shepherds and their descendants, among them the author herself.
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Ladies Of Grace Adieu
£9.99A gorgeous book of stories from the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and illustrated by Charles Vess