Twelve Post-War Tales
£10.99A new work of fiction by Booker Prize-winning author Graham Swift
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Classic Summer Stories
£10.99A collection of short stories inspired by the most vibrant season of the year.
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Devotions
£14.99A woman recalls the time her grandfather claimed to have met Jesus. A professional musician travels across the world and through her memories with a violin older than the USA. A young Belfast theatre troupe brings their experimental production of Hamlet to New York. Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, and the ways that lives can be haunted.
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The News From Dublin
£20.00A profound and devastating collection of short stories by Colm Tóibìn, author of Long Island and Brooklyn
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The Soul-Catchers
£14.99What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for example, or perhaps your mother’s hearing aid, a diary, or even a climbing frame, to feel the clambering limbs of a beloved sister? Eleven recently deceased protagonists find themselves floating in the afterlife where a nameless ghost offers them a joyous reunion with their loved ones. But not as you would expect.
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Mostly Hero
£9.99This title is part of a landmark series of gem-like individual volumes presenting masters of the form at work in a range of genres and styles. Bringing together past, present, and future in their ninetieth year, ‘Faber Stories’ is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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Brawler
£18.99Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region – from New England to Florida to California – these nine stories reflect and expand upon a single shared theme: the ceaseless battle between the dark and light in all of us. Among those caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling; a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult; a mother blinded by the loss of her family; and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by human fallibility, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can.
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Show Don’t Tell
£9.99In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends. In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel ‘Prep’ a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion. Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.
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The Vanishing Point
£9.99The stories in Paul Theroux’s ‘The Vanishing Point’ are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points – a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.
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Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children
£19.99Introduce a new generation to Oscar Wilde’s classic children’s tales with this stunningly illustrated luxury gift edition – a must-have gift book for readers old and new.
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The Last Dream
£9.99A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar. ‘The Last Dream’ brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day.
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That Glimpse of Truth
£30.00The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one gorgeous volume.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
£18.99This hardback edition presents a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ where Holmes is outwitted by an unexpected rival; ‘The Red-Headed League’, which begins with a bizarre newspaper advertisement for red-haired men; and ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, in which the great detective traces a sinister whistling sound to its lethal source.
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Martian Chronicles
£9.99The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name.
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Wild Folk
£25.00‘Wild Folk’ comprises seven richly illustrated fables of transformation and power, summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet and transformed by word and image into portals between past and future. These tales from the stones are neither new nor old. They are full of ‘wild folk’, shape-shifting spirits that carry the energy that connects all things. This book brings together the words of Jackie Morris and the stained-glass paintings of Tamsin Abbott, but the stories come from both, a true collaboration born out of friendship and hope. These are tales to make you see, listen and most of all feel the wild magic that links stone, tree, fox and star.