Only the Animals

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Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench o …

Merciless Gods

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A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and r …

Blasphemy

Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, fro …

Shooting the Fox

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‘Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that’s what he did. It’s a given. It’s the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is: why did Mrs Bluebeard feel utterly …

Magical Thinking

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A collection of autobiographical short stories, small vignettes of his life experiences, universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.From the #1 bestselling author of Running wit …

Possible Side Effects

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads t …

The Professor

At the heart of this striking collection is the title work: a candid and wrenching exploration of Castle’s relationship, during her graduate school years, with a female professor. At once hilarious an …

First Thrills

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Brand-new stories from world-class writers, handpicked by number one bestseller Lee Child.

Give Me Your Heart

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In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond …

The Garden of Bad Dreams

In The Garden of Bad Dreams characters strive for order despite the entropy that surrounds them: a nostalgic circus man is compelled to collect small people; an industrious monk strives to push a moun …

Dark Roots

From the strains of a dissolving relationship, to the ripple effect of a chance encounter in an ordinary life, the characters in Cate Kennedy’s Dark Roots speak of the hidden motivations that propel u …

The Book of Ten Nights and a Night

John Barth, the postmodern master, is back with this collection of stories, which are gathered here for the first time, in a single volume. Through his exploration of the nature of storytelling, and t …