Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and the world’s most disgusting breakfast cereal, ‘Filboid Studge’, are just some of the fantastical inventions that populate the stories of Saki.
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A young man gives a pair of pilgrims a lift to a wayside statue; two strangers meet at a hotel for a mysterious assignation; holidaymakers in Northern Ireland are haunted by the past. This is the world of William Trevor, widely hailed as the modern master of short fiction.
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These 13 short stories span the full range of Chandler’s career, from ‘Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’ first published in 1933 to ‘English Summer’, a black and yet oddly tender story of adultery, cruelty and murder published posthumously in 1976.
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The mood is dark, the atmosphere electric, the voice unmistakable - in his stiletto-sharp thrillers, Raymond Chandler changed the face of crime fiction forever.
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The 13 stories collected here are as varied as the characters that inhabit them, but all share a liveliness and strangeness that is unmistakably Gogolian. Illustrator Peter Suart brilliantly captures their characteristic blend of pathos and dark humour.
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This collection of 19 crime stories forms a hall of fame for the greatest writers and characters from the golden age of detective fiction and is so popular that it is now in its sixth printing.
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It was in her shorter prose that Daphne du Maurier allowed a free rein to her remarkable imagination and no reader could fail to be caught by du Maurier’s sense of atmosphere and suspense.
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From simple slapstick to cool sophistication, these stories share a genius for setting off life's fireworks.
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The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction encompasses some of the finest writing in the genre, from the Victorian 'sensation' novellas of Mary E. Braddon and Wilkie Collins to contemporary thrillers by Minette Walters and Sara Paretsky.
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A collection of 43 short stories from six different countries and some of the world's greatest writers, including Samuel Beckett, Colette and Alexander Pushkin
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Twenty-six tales taken from every stage of Hemingway's career make up this short stories collection - an ideal companion to the Great Novels Set.
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There are few traditions of storytelling and folklore as colourful as the Irish. In these 65 funny, moving and mysterious stories and poems, familiar characters of Irish myth come to life.
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Originally told as bedtime stories for Kipling's daughter Josephine, Just So Stories remains a classic of children's literature - simply and beautifully written, with an entirely believable, far from cosy vision of the joy, wonder and dangers of the natural world.
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The author of the mordantly comic Devil's Dictionary is also revealed as a superb short story writer in this new collection of 90 gripping gothic tales, introduced by Will Self.
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Stevenson was a ruthless refiner of his stories - 'I am always cutting the flesh off their bones' - and his mastery of the form lies not only in his page-turning plots and immediacy of style, but in the vivid pictures he creates in the reader's mind.
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| 1 x Music for King Henry | |
| 1 x Empires of the Word | |
| 1 x Impossible Journeys | |
| 1 x Napoleon | |
| 1 x The Apocrypha | |
| 1 x The Book of Exploration | |
| 1 x The Blind Watchmaker | |
| 1 x The Celts | |
| 1 x Robinson Crusoe | |
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