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Anthologies and short stories
Granta Book of the Irish Short Story
By Anne Enright
Paperback
Published 03-Nov-2011
| RRP: | £9.99 |
| Our price: | £7.99 |
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The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.
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This Is How You Lose Her
By Junot Diaz
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Offers a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet.
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Selected Stories
By Anton Chekhov
Paperback
Published 13-Sep-1995
| RRP: | £1.99 |
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A collection of stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which intend to leave much to the reader's imagination.
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Iraqi Christ
By Hassan Blasim
Paperback
Published 31-Mar-2013
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
By Karen Russell
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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On Strong Beach, an awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls' nest. In a godforsaken barn in what they suspect is Kentucky, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses.
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Granta Book of the African Short Story
By Helon Habila
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary writers, Helon Habila.
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Winter Book
By Tove Jansson
Paperback
Published 01-Nov-2006
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A collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this translated selection provides a showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths.
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Art in Nature
By Tove Jansson
Paperback
Published 28-Jun-2012
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An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve both their row and his own ambivalence about the art market.
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New Selected Stories
By Alice Munro
Hardback
Published 15-Sep-2011
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A collection of stories that infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight.
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Five Minute Erotica
By Carol Queen
Paperback
Published 07-Aug-2003
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This new anthology of pleasingly brief tales features contributions from some of the best writers of erotica today. While most of the stories feature heterosexual sex, "Five-Minute Erotica" also offers a good mix of fantasy situations, including lesbian encounters and menages a trois.
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