Stories of the self

Collected Stories

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, a

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Ghostly Stories

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

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Roman Stories

An astonishing new collection of short stories set in and around Rome from Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies

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Village Stories

In this collection of stories, T. P. Nash captures the distinctiveness of a fictional village in Norfolk, with its charming confines, differences of o

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Berlin Stories

Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, 'has always been a city of desperate modernity', both in terms of urban architecture

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American Stories

American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. All of these stories

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Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita

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Making Stories

Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent psychologist Jerome Br

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Badass Stories

Badass Stories focuses on what we can easily miss in the shitshow of life—the big lessons that come from the accumulation of little things in the ev

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Collected Stories

A collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Some stories recount the events of a single day, while some are contained in a wider frame.

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Selected Stories

This new selection of Mansfield's stories adds 6 stories to Dan Davin's original selection of 27 and arranges them in the order in which they first ap

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Florence Stories

Salman Rushdie's dazzling novel The Enchantress of Florence takes inspiration from the city's gilded Renaissance past, while Mary McCarthy's masterful

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Short Stories

Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection.

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Stories Matter

This text examines the many ways that narrative methods of analysis and interpretation are transforming the work of medicine and ethics. This edited c

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Detective Stories

A glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. Including creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rende

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Piano Stories

From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic tales

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Easter Stories

Bringing his remarkable storytelling gift to the events of Easter, Bob Hartman retells the events of Easter in a fresh and memorable way.

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Goddess Stories

Channel your inner goddess with this unforgettable book of mythology and embrace the wisdom of mroe than 40 female deities.

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Matisse Stories

This brilliant collection has been called "a masterpiece" by the Sunday Telegraph. Each of the three stories is touched in a different way by the paintings of Henri Matisse. Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant but gradually the veneer of ordinariness is p...

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Selected Stories

DOCTOROWJohn OÂ’Hara is widely credited with inventing the New Yorker short story, and remains the most-published short story writer in the history of

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Jolly Stories

Join the fun adventures of Inky Mouse and her friends. Follow them through seven stories as they learn the 42 letter sounds in this beautifully illust

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Tree Stories

The remarkable stories of trees that have shaped human history - from the wooden ladder that solved a crime to France's revolutionary Liberty Trees.

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Willy's Stories

A magical celebration of stories and the imagination from the multiple award-winning Anthony Browne. Where will Willy's imagination take him next?

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Collected Stories

Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known

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Collected Stories

A collection short stories, each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that can captivate readers the world over. It explores the b

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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...

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Medicine Stories

In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of ac

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Alien Stories

Short Fiction Prize-winning collection of short stories that use science fiction to explore immigration, diaspora, and the concept of otherness.

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Collected Stories

Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, the author also published four volumes of short stories. In this title, these volumes are c

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Collected Stories

This selection covers the full range of Kipling's extraordinary short stories throughout his career. Above all, they convey a wonderful sense of life

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Oblivion: Stories

* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation' (TLS)

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Olinger Stories

In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." They follow the life of one character f

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London Stories

and they faithfully transcribed what they saw and felt in the stories they told of London town. and all tell their stories gratifyingly well. Author

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Telling Stories

The ultimate visual history of iconic band The Fall from renowned photographer Kevin Cummins, with a foreword by Poet Laureate and Fall fan, Simon Arm

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Dog Stories

The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the a

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Ghost Stories

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Nothing supernatural could occu

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SARS Stories

Belinda Kong examines the Chinese popular culture archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, from music to television to humor, to show how Chinese people sur

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Matisse Stories

Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the w

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GAPS Stories

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride created the term GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome or Gut and Physiology Syndrome) in 2004 to describe the plethora of he

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Collected Stories

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gan

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Collected Stories

An authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozic

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Doctor Stories

A new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as ChekhovÂ’s.

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Creation Stories

An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanityÂ’s origins through narratives about the natural environment

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Cat Stories

Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. The essential unknowablen

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Collected Stories

John Cheever’s Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISH

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Collected Stories

‘Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast’ Sunday TimesMelding his native

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Selected Stories

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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Birthday Stories

What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? The author has chosen for his par

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Selected Stories

In this Library of Wales edition, with a foreword by Tomos Owen, the essence of his work is revealed with a new selection of dark, witty and finely cr

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Paddington A Day At The Seaside a Other Stories

Worth his weight in marmalade sandwiches, here’s Paddington in four more favourite adventures. The stories are `A Day at the Seaside’, `P

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Fixing Stories

Examining the role and influence of news 'fixers' who mediate between foreign journalists and local sources, this book is based on vivid personal acco

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Sea Stories

Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back wi

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Maples Stories

Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline an

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Leithen Stories

Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to theauthor's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer andMP in London, Leith

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Christmas Stories

As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired topics ranging from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination. This work features

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Island Stories

â€Concise, elegant and lucid … A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality’ Guardian What

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Ghost Stories

The terrifying stageplay and worldwide cult phenomenon about a Professor of Parapsychology whose rationality is tested to breaking point – and beyond

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Music Stories

<p>Variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty and Maya Angelou. Wesley Stace's attractive medley embraces musical genres from Virginia Woolf's 'A String Quartet' to Langston Hughes's 'The Blues I'm Playing'. Short sto...

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Collected Stories

Included are classics of short-form fiction such as ‘A Bear Hunt’, ‘A Rose for Emily’, ‘Two Soldiers’ and ‘The Brooch’. Faulkner’s ability to

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Julian Stories

Never leave a yummy pudding lying around!Dad makes a pudding that tastes like a whole raft of lemons and a night on the sea. Before he knows it, Julia

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