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 ‘The Last Dream’ brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day.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.
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Table for two
£10.99Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, ‘Table for Two’ is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.
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Ghost
£22.00An anthology collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on, selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this beautiful collection of 100 ghost stories will delight, unnerve, and entertain any fiction lover brave enough…Here are gothic classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two in their closet.The all-star cast of authors inlude: Hilary Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell, Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami, Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela C
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The fall of the house of Usher and other tales
£18.99Edgar Allan Poe’s stories uncover the deeply unnerving strangeness lurking within us all. His genius for horror and suspense went on to influence the world, from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of his best short stories contains the well-known works ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ alongside a wide range of delightfully terrifying tales to unsettle and enthrall.
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The duck who didn’t like water
£6.99A gorgeous board book edition of this wise, funny fable about how we don’t need to like the same things to find our perfect pal, from the illustrator of much-loved I’m Sticking With You.
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Antarctica
£9.99This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects.
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The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
£10.99A stunning gift edition of the Arsène Lupin stories which inspired the hit Netflix series Lupin, with an introduction from Emma Bielecki.
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Grand Union
£9.99Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction.
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Classic Cat Stories
£10.99This delightful anthology of Cat Stories is the perfect gift for cat lovers everywhere.
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I, robot
£9.99Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.
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