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Here are twenty meticulously plotted, intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, featuring assassins, CIA agents, gangsters, and more. A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked rookie cop is assigned to the department’s file room. A ruthless killer only kills bad guys. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he’s outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. Each story is entirely distinct. And with their economical prose and unexpected twists, each could only have been written by the creator of Jack Reacher.
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Weaving together ancient Greek fables with more recent dystopian narratives, Mark Haddon jump starts the heart of these legends told and retold for millennia, and demonstrates their lasting relevance again, in new and unexpected forms.
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A collection of ingeniously crafted, classic horror stories to fire the imagination and give you chills.
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A 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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£11.99
The collected short fiction of Juliet Jacques, one of the UK’s most pioneering transgender writers.
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An entrancing anthology of fantasy short stories full of magic, adventure and surprise.
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A collection of classic tales of adventure, capturing the thrill, the danger and the allure of the sea.
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From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of the twelve stories in ‘After the Funeral’, small events have huge consequences. Heloise’s father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognise each other. Janie’s bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janie’s own age – everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend’s death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend’s wife.
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A group of young, Black British friends navigate their way through the ups and downs of modern London life, in this richly imagined collection of linked storiesÂ
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Lydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In ‘Our Strangers’, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Davis’s keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers.
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In this collection we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; and a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, ‘Normal Rules Don’t Apply’ is a startling , and funny feast for the imagination. In Kate Atkinson’s world nothing is over until ‘the talking dog speaks’.
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King writes to feel ‘the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind’, and in ‘You Like it Darker’, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
