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London Tales

20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Edward

£7.99 20 Aug 2008 Paperback Gadfly Entertainment

Rescue Missions Stories

16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Frederick Busch

£10.55 16 Aug 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

"Rescue Missions" collects stories of mercy and need among lovers, family, and friends by "one of our very best short-story writers" (Anne Beattie).

Out Loud

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthony Varallo

£17.50 15 Aug 2008 Hardback University of Pittsburgh Press

Feeling distanced from her friends and family, middle-aged divorcee Caitlin Drury is encouraged by her daughter to express her feelings in a diary, but she is hesitant: "I feel lonely she wrote, then crossed it out. She didn't like the idea of someone coming along later to read her journal, finding out she felt lonely".

Malone's Vow

15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sandra Marton

£1.49 15 Aug 2008 Paperback Harlequin Mills & Boon

The Conference on Beautiful Moments

14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Burgin

£26.50 14 Aug 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Presents a collection of stories that talk about, with equal compassion and insight, the homeless and the wealthy, prostitutes and businessmen, an autistic child and an art forger. This book's characters are illuminated by their often affected interior narratives, which burst sharply into conversations at once intimate and calculated.

Beasts and Super-Beasts

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Saki

£46.99 12 Aug 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Beasts and Super-Beasts

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Saki

£51.99 12 Aug 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

Aunt Judy's Tales

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alfred Gatty

£35.99 12 Aug 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Aunt Judy's Tales

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alfred Gatty

£41.99 12 Aug 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

In Midsummer Days and Other Tales

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By August Strindberg

£20.99 12 Aug 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Innocent

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marie Corelli

£24.99 12 Aug 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Innocent

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marie Corelli

£29.99 12 Aug 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

In Midsummer Days and Other Tales

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By August Strindberg

£26.99 12 Aug 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Louis Becke

£70.99 12 Aug 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maud Lucy Montgomery

£71.99 12 Aug 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maud Lucy Montgomery

£76.99 12 Aug 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

Being Normal

11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Shieber

£7.99 11 Aug 2008 Paperback Tonto Books

A collection filtered with debauchery, melancholy and black humour. It examines loneliness, rejection and the idiosyncrasies of living in and against contemporary society. It brings together the glory of everyday nothingness and elevates it to great drama; where loveless marriage, childhood misadventure, and family dysfunction are the norm.

I Love You When I'm Drunk

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Empar Moliner

£7.95 07 Aug 2008 Paperback Comma Press

Long Days

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maike Wetzel

£7.95 07 Aug 2008 Paperback Comma Press

The Boat

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nam Le

£12.99 07 Aug 2008 Hardback Canongate Books Ltd

A collection of seven stories including the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; an aging painter mourning the death of his much-younger lover; and, a young refugee fleeing Vietnam, crammed in the ship's hold with 200 others.

Untitled Short Story Collection

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jeremy Dyson

£12.99 07 Aug 2008 Hardback Little, Brown Book Group

A brilliantly macabre and suspenseful short story collection from the co-creator of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN.

McSweeney's Issue 27

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dave Eggers

£20.00 07 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books Ltd

Features three books in a windowed slipcase, presenting six possible faces to the world to help match your home decor. This title includes: oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly-spelled text; a seventy-two page sketchbook by Art Spiegelman; and, stories by Stephen King, Jim Shepard, and more.

St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Karen Russell

£7.99 07 Aug 2008 Paperback Vintage

A collection of ten stories which chart loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up.

The Glass Slipper and Other Stories

05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shotaro Yosuoka

£13.99 05 Aug 2008 Hardback Dalkey Archive Press,U.S.

In addition to "The Glass Slipper," this collection contains nine other stories held together by a common thread of self-perception: Yasuoka writes from the belief that the self has such depths that at times it can appear to be illusory. Set against the chaotic backdrop of the era running from before World War II to just after its end, these stories are infused with a timeless sense of novelty and humor that does not suffer from age. Highly praised by Haruki Murakami, The Glass Slipper and Other Stories continues to offer its readers a fresh literary experience.

Our Story Begins

04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Stories

By Tobias Wolff

£18.99 04 Aug 2008 Hardback Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A collection of stories with revelations about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother.

The Scarlet Gospels

04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Clive Barker

£18.99 04 Aug 2008 Hardback HarperCollins Publishers

Tales of this world and others.

El Fantasma de Canterville y Otros Cuentos / The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wilde, Oscar

£4.92 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Edimat Libros

Filter House

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shawl, Nisi

£9.89 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Aqueduct Press

The People on Privilege Hill

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gardam, Jane

£8.76 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Europa Editions

From the author of "Old Filth," a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, comes this new collection of stories that showcases Gardam's caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, and wicked powers of observation.

The Man Back There and Other Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Crouse, David

£8.76 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Sarabande Books

Do Angels Cry?: Tales of the War

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marusic, Matko

£6.02 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Ooligan Press

The soul of Croatia and its people overcome the savageries of war through the innocence of children, the laughter of families, and the determination of soldiers. From romance in a bomb shelter to a 45-year-old man struggling to contribute to the defense of his country, the stories of Do Angels Cry? illuminate the love and dedication of the Croatian people. Author Matko Marusic has a unique perspective on the images of the war gained from his service documenting the civilian experience during the 1990s. Do Angels Cry? was originally published in Croatia and Great Britain.

The Exploits of the Second Mrs. Watson

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mallory, Michael

£8.21 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Top

The game's afoot again! Amelia Watson returns in a new collection of 13 adventures that prove there was yet another master sleuth working in Edwardian London. Book two of the Emelia Watson Mystery Series.

Biting Point

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Catherine Smith

£12.99 01 Aug 2008 Hardback bluechrome Publishing

A collection of short stories that explores the gaps between what's said and what's thought - between public and private spaces, the inner and outer lives of characters at a point of crisis or transition. Secrets, lies, dreams and desires drive characters to inhabit new territories.

Birthright

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Roberts, Nora

£54.94 01 Aug 2008 Non-Book Item Playaway

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The Great Fire

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Murphy, Jim

£19.23 01 Aug 2008 Non-Book Item Playaway

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lam, Vincent

£8.24 01 Aug 2008 Compact Disk Brilliance Corporation

Through the eyes of Fitz, Ming, Chen, and Sri, Vincent Lam finds conflict - and humanity - in the most surprising moments. Together these doctors test the boundaries of intimacy as they cope with exam pressure, weigh moral dilemmas as they dissect cadavers, confront police who assault their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own.
Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize for fiction - the only debut work ever to have won the prestigious literary prize - Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures looks with rigorous honesty at the lives of doctors and their patients and illuminates a deeper understanding of the fears, choices, and temptations that face us all.
a oeVincent Lama (TM)s book is amazing, beautiful, and painful. I cannot believe that a writer can emerge, so fully-formed and incisive, with his first book. This guy is a star.a - Sherman Alexie, bestselling author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Flight

What You Call Winter

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jones, Nalini

£7.66 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Anchor Books

Signs of Life

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Waksler, Norman

£8.79 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Black Lawrence Press

Whether his characters are fresh out of college or middle-aged, Norman Waksler makes us feel like we are the very character who is telling the story. He is highly skilled at creating empathetic, extremely memorable characters. He is witty as well in his (often satirical) descriptions of everyday life.

The Last Game We Played

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Krause, Jo Neace

£8.79 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Black Lawrence Press

These stories express situations by taking stock of history. This is especially true for the stories that are set in the Middle East, where Jo Neace Krause looks at the maddening violence that has taken place there in terms of centuries of feuding while maintaining a great closeness to the present.

Short Stories and Poems

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Mahoney

£6.99 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Richard Mahoney

Land's End

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By The InkerMen

£9.95 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Inkermen Press

The Turing Test

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chris Beckett

£5.99 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Elastic Press

The Last Reef

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gareth Powell

£5.99 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Elastic Press

Fire and Water: Six Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stevens, Elisabeth

£5.47 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Syracuse University Press

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Harrison, Jim

£7.69 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Grove Press

Harrison has garnered critical acclaim for masterpieces such as "Legends of the Fall, The Beast God Forgot to Invent," and, most recently, "Returning to Earth." Now, "The Woman Lit by Fireflies," one of his best-loved books, is available in a paperback edition.

One More Year: Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Krasikov, Sana

£12.06 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Spiegel & Grau

Krasikov's debut collection features stories of people who hold out hope, despite the odds, that life will be kind to them. The characters look to love to repair their lives, and when love isn't really there, they attempt to make do with relationships that substitute for love.

Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Moody, Rick

£7.69 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Back Bay Books

Collected Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Roald Dahl

£25.00 01 Aug 2008 Hardback Random House USA Inc

This Everyman's Library edition is the only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl'sstories for adults.

The Duke's Secret Wife

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kate Walker

£1.49 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Harlequin Mills & Boon

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fitzgerald, F. Scott

£6.59 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Penguin Books

Spanning the early 20th-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Plath, Sylvia

£8.21 01 Aug 2008 Paperback Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

Curious Case of Benjamin Button CD Mti

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fitzgerald, F. Scott

£8.21 01 Aug 2008 Compact Disk HarperAudio

In this brilliantly inventive collection of stories, the author captures the disparate lives of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street from marriages, car accidents, love affairs, and adoptions. Unabridged. 8 CDs.

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

£7.49 01 Aug 2008 Network Resource HarperCollins Publishers

This collection of four of Holmes' cases tells of a missing diamond and a missing war hero, a savage yet faithful wolfhound, and a mysterious house buyer who wants to buy all of Mrs Maberleys's possessions. Read by the charismatic and perennially popular Christopher Lee, who has played Sherlock Holmes on television.

Sherlock Holmes: the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

£7.49 01 Aug 2008 Network Resource HarperCollins Publishers

Four tales from the great detective's case book, including bones that won't stay buried, and an exotic South American vampire.

While the Light Lasts

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Agatha Christie

£9.99 01 Aug 2008 Network Resource HarperCollins Publishers

Five early stories unpublished since their first magazine appearances in the '20s and '30s, finally unearthed 21 years after Agatha Christie's death, already showing the deft touch of the Queen of Crime in the making.

The Hound of Death and Other SStories

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Agatha Christie

£9.99 01 Aug 2008 Network Resource HarperCollins Publishers

A collection of Agatha Christie's stories of the macabre and the occult, where a message from beyond the grave unmasks an insane killer, and a nun has the power to cause a landslide. Read by the prince of darkness, Christopher Lee.

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

and Other Stories

By Agatha Christie

£9.99 01 Aug 2008 Network Resource HarperCollins Publishers

Partners in Crime

01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Agatha Christie

£9.99 01 Aug 2008 Network Resource HarperCollins Publishers

Six short stories from the Queen of Crime, telling, amongst other things, of Pink Pearls and Sinister Strangers. Bonus Feature: Includes an exclusive Q&A session between Hugh Fraser and David Brawn, Publishing Operations Director at HarperCollins.

Darra'Aur Anya Kahaniyan

30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Geetanjali Shree

£9.99 30 Jul 2008 Paperback HarperCollins India

Includes stories from the author of "Mayee", and other popular novels.

The Tale

25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joseph Conrad

£7.99 25 Jul 2008 Paperback Hesperus Press Ltd

A collection of stories which explore the themes of guilt and memory.

The Obelisk

25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By E.M. Forster

£7.99 25 Jul 2008 Paperback Hesperus Press Ltd

Hilda and Ernest are a typical married couple, squabbling their way through a day-trip. When they meet a pair of sailors, they are both disturbed and unsettled, but their initial wariness gives way in an unlikely, and jolly, joint trip to a local landmark, which ends in surprise for both husband and wife.

The Exclamation Mark

25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anton Chekhov

£6.99 25 Jul 2008 Paperback Hesperus Press Ltd

A collection of stories, written between 1885 and 1886.

The Pilgrims

25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mary Shelley

£6.99 25 Jul 2008 Paperback Hesperus Press Ltd

A knight living alone in his isolated mountain fortress shows hospitality to two pilgrims who one day appear from the mountains, seeking shelter. Entreating him to tell them of his sorrow, the knight unburdens himself and tells a tragic tale of love and loss. This novel is a tale of betrayal, heartbreak, revenge and ultimately redemption.

Mary Barton

25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Gaskell

£7.99 25 Jul 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

Based on the 1854 fifth edition, this title includes letters as well as Elizabeth Gaskell's reaction to her critics and contemporary reviews that reflect Mary Barton's reception. It contains Gaskell's "Libbie Marsh's Three Eras" which illustrates the author's perceptive sensitivity, and 'Criticism' that collects interpretations of Mary Barton.

Heatwave

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dakota Rebel, Desiree Holt, J.P. Bowie, Aurora Rose Lynn, Ashley Ladd, Lexie Davis, Ann Cory, Tuesday Morrigan

£8.99 21 Jul 2008 Paperback Total-E-Bound Publishing

Extremely Entertaining Short Stories

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Classic Works of a Master

By Stacy Aumonier

£12.99 21 Jul 2008 Paperback Phaeton Publishing Limited

King of Shabbos

21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

And Other Stories of Return

By Zalman Velvel

£17.99 21 Jul 2008 Hardback Square One Publishers

How often do you read a story that makes you laugh out loud or wipe tears from your eyes? It's rare to find honest writing that is powerful, moving, and inspirational, but words that come from the heart enter the heart. From the voice of a man who has struggled, hurt, and grown--and laughed with joy over the process--comes The King of Shabbos and Other Stories of Return, a collection of eighteen tales that will make you think and feel in a new and different way. The inspirational theme that runs throughout these tales, tying them together, is the idea of returning to simple Jewish values and spiritual meaning in a world where values and meanings get traded and lost. Many of Zalman's stories won awards when they first appeared in publications around the world, but here, for the first time, is a single volume of his most poignant work. Truly, Zalman's characters and their stories will become a part of you. They may even teach you a lesson or two about love, life, and lasting meaning.

Rescue Missions Stories

19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Frederick Busch

£10.55 19 Jul 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

"Rescue Missions" collects stories of mercy and need among lovers, family, and friends by "one of our very best short-story writers" (Anne Beattie).

The Boss's Marriage Arrangement

18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Penny Jordan

£1.49 18 Jul 2008 Paperback Harlequin Mills & Boon

The Conference on Beautiful Moments

17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Burgin

£26.50 17 Jul 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins University Press

Bedtime Erotica for Men

15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lexy Harper

£7.99 15 Jul 2008 Paperback Ebonique Publishing

A Changed Man and Other Tales

11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas Hardy

£35.99 11 Jul 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

A Changed Man and Other Tales

11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas Hardy

£30.99 11 Jul 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Anting-Anting Stories and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sargent Kayme

£75.99 11 Jul 2008 Hardback Indypublish.com

A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jonathan Swift

£7.99 10 Jul 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

This volume includes "The Battle of the Books" and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," both which accompanied "A Tale of a Tub" on its first publication in 1704.

Beyond the Breakwater

09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Short Stories 1948-1998 by O.E. Middleton

By O.E. Middleton

£19.50 09 Jul 2008 Hardback Otago University Press

Beyond the Breakwater brings together twenty-six outstanding short stories spanning half a century by an acclaimed master of the genre, O.E. Middleton.

Great Escapes

07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Short Story Collection

By Various contributors

£8.99 07 Jul 2008 Paperback Anova Books

Includes stories based loosely on the themes of food, family and relationships.

Tales of Earthly Humour and Beyond

04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gordon Lewsley

£7.00 04 Jul 2008 Paperback Troubador Publishing

Features a collection of short stories of different genres and subjects all linked together by the adventures of a group of aliens who have arrived on Earth.

BBC National Short Story Award

04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£4.99 04 Jul 2008 Paperback Short Books Ltd

I Love You When I'm Drunk

04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Empar Moliner

£7.95 04 Jul 2008 Paperback Comma Press

The Doctor's Girl

04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Betty Neels

£1.49 04 Jul 2008 Paperback Harlequin Mills & Boon

The People on Privilege Hill

03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jane Gardam

£7.99 03 Jul 2008 Paperback Little, Brown Book Group

* A new collection that is a masterclass in the art of the short story from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of OLD FILTH

Cuentos de Andersen

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Andersen, Hans Christian

£8.21 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Edimat

Still Life: And Other Stories

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shono, Junzo

£6.57 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Stone Bridge Press

A winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize, this collection of thirteen short stories follows a family's crucial moments through ordinary days. Linked by the daily life of a husband and wife and their children, the stories are like the back of a tapestry where threads seem to cross randomly.

Storm Over Belfast

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By O'Donnell, Mary

£9.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback New Island Books

Storm Over Belfast is a collection of powerful, striking and sensuous short stories by one of Ireland's finest writers. The collection highlights the best of O'Donnell's work from the last ten years.

Crazy Love

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By What, Leslie

£7.66 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Wordcraft of Oregon

Church Booty

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Manley, Carol

£8.76 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Livingston Press (AL)

Runner up in the Third Tartt Fiction Award! We couldn't resist this humorous and sympathetic look at Black culture in America, much of which is centered on church and love. Manley's take on mixed race marriage is immensely touching; she has a gift for winding humor and tragedy into a tight ball that alternately bounces laughter off the walls of your stomach and tightens it into a lump.

Say You're One of Them

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Akpan, Uwem

£18.65 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Center Point Large Print

The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. In another narrative, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. Told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents, who are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children.

Future Missionaries of America Future Missionaries of America

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Vollmer, Matthew

£7.14 01 Jul 2008 Paperback MacAdam/Cage Publishing

A waiter at Yellowstone National Park seeks consolation in the arms of his dead friend's girlfriend. A young woman vacationing in Idaho becomes obsessed with a female poet and her adopted child. A deadbeat bus-driver with a gambling addiction watches his son attempt the impossible at the X Games. A widow, retreating to a New Hampshire lake house, finds her son living there with another man. A temp in New York City distributes his will and testament to twenty-seven strangers, hoping to convince one of them to be its executor.
These are just some of the compellingly odd characters found in the pages of Matthew Vollmer's brilliant debut collection, "Future Missionaries of America." Taking us from a Seventh Day Adventist boarding school to a traveling exhibition of plasticine bodies, from the moonlit paths of Yellowstone National Park to a quiet New Hampshire lakehouse, Vollmer's twelve stories are at once sorrowful, exuberant, and absurdly comical.

Future Missionaries of America Future Missionaries of America

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Vollmer, Matthew

£12.09 01 Jul 2008 Hardback MacAdam/Cage Publishing

Young Irelanders

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Donovan, Gerard

£13.71 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Overlook Press

From the acclaimed author of "Julius Winsome" comes a stunning collection of stories about the not-always-green Emerald Isle.

My Fantoms

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gautier, Theophile

£7.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback New York Review of Books

The Brutal Language of Love

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Erian, Alicia

£7.14 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Simon & Schuster

In these nine stunning stories, Erian explores that peculiar part of the psyche that makes people do things when they know better. The powerful, unsettling stories in "The Brutal Language of Love" mark the emergence of a major new talent.

Butterfly Tears

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Roy, Zo?? S.

£12.61 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series

Six Six One (a God's Last Three)

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Panini

£11.95 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Littlebooks of Durham

Pieces of the Hole: Short Stories

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lindsay, Tony

£9.50 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Third World Press

The hip-hop culture on the south side of Chicago links these short stories that are otherwise very different from each other in subject and approach. Stark scenes of gang violence, drug use, and prison life are contrasted with light and humorous stories, and the grittiness of urban life is softened by the preoccupations of adolescence, the chance for romance, or the ordinary moments of family life.

Intercourse: Stories

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Butler, Robert Olen

£13.99 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Chronicle Books

Includes 100 short stories, which comprise the inner streams of consciousness of 50 couples while making love. This book gets into the minds of people across history, from King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, to Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln, to Richard and Pat Nixon.

Lands of Memory

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hernandez, Felisberto

£8.21 01 Jul 2008 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

A superb fiction collection by the great Uruguayan writer: "If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Lands of Memory" presents a half-dozen wonderful works by Felisberto Hernandez, "a writer like no other," Italo Calvino declared, "like no European or Latin American. He is an 'irregular, ' who eludes all classifications and labellings--yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books."
Named a "Guardian" Best Book of the Year by Alfred Brendel and a "TLS" Best Book of the Year by Michael Hofmann (who calls Felisberto "a loopier, vegetarian Kafka, inhabiting his mazy personal baroque"), "Lands of Memory" collects four astonishing stories and the two dreamlike novellas "Around the Time of Clemente Colling" and "Lands of Memory."

The Mercy Rule

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Klass, Perri

£13.19 01 Jul 2008 Hardback Houghton Mifflin Company

A trenchant, funny, and timely work about what makes a good parent and who should judge that issue, "The Mercy Rule" is a novel about the all-important job of taking care of children.

Wifeshopping: Stories

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wingate, Steven

£7.66 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Mariner Books

An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection, "Wifeshopping" centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with women.

Loverboys

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ana Castillo

£8.99 01 Jul 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

From rapturous beginnings to melancholy middles to bittersweet endings, Ana Castillo looks at love in its wildly varying modes, and its equally varying configurations. The acclaimed author of "So Far from God" presents "twenty-three tales of love, lust, and the Latina tradition . . . endowed with earthy eroticism and zesty humor" ("Publishers Weekly", starred review).

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fulton, Alice

£13.16 01 Jul 2008 Hardback W. W. Norton & Company

Set in Troy, New York, the stories in this collection follow a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the 20th century, creating a vividly palpable sense of time and place.

The Collected Stories

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michaels, Leonard

£8.24 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Farrar Straus Giroux

Michaels was a master of the short story, and his collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. This collection brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut "Going PlacesS to the uncollected last stories.

The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes

01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Holthe, Tess Uriza

£7.14 01 Jul 2008 Paperback Three Rivers Press (CA)

The Pleasanteries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shah, Adries

£4.99 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Rupa & Co

Outstanding Short Stories

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By S.E. Paces

£2.75 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Chand (S.) & Co Ltd ,India

A title graded according to age group.

Modern Short Stories

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£2.75 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Chand (S.) & Co Ltd ,India

Classic Women's Short Stories

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf

£10.99 30 Jun 2008 audiobooksonline.co.uk

The Prophet

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kahlil Gibran

£13.99 30 Jun 2008 audiobooksonline.co.uk

The Jumping Frog and Other Sketches

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Twain

£10.00 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Pushkin Press

Retells a story Twain heard from a bartender in the City of Angels, California, about the hopeless gambler and con artist Jim Smiley told by Simon Wheeler, "a fat and bald-headed man".

Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (like Me)

30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lexy Harper

£7.99 30 Jun 2008 Paperback Ebonique Publishing