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Pawel, a young Polish businessman, is in trouble; in debt to loan sharks his only hope lies with former friends, many of whom are now prominent in Warsaws drug-dealing underground. Embarking on a desperate fools-gold chase through the citys grimy apartments and creaking transport system Pawel strugg..

Her storytelling ability is second to none SUNDAY EXPRESS Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller NEW YORK TIMES The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who dont have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite fou..

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid The Misfit, an escaped convict whos repo..

The New York Times bestseller. This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver - Independent Introduced by Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlins stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twe..

A Twist of the Knife is Peter James gripping first full-length collection of thirty short stories, including all the stories featured in Short Shockers 1 & 2 plus many more. With each twist of the knife, a chilling new journey begins . . . From a woman intent on bizarre revenge, to a restaurant c..

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse,..

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse,..

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake..

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of Englands visit. The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the plac..

Like A.S. Byatts Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious indiv..