In these stories, readers will not find heartwarming sentimentality, but mature literary prose with surprising twists and indeterminate endings, and women of intense substance and spirit. P. J. Worrell understands girls who dream of...

Internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of the chilling touch.

Rebecca Rosenblum's Once is a fiercely original and assured debut, a collection of sixteen stories portraying the constricted and confused lives of the rootless twenty-somethings'students, office techies, waitresses, warehouse labourers...

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding...

It's over 100 years since men took to the air and since then there have been many accounts of strange happenings. This is a selection of short stories which explore these mysteries.

From crimes of passion to corporate piracy ... from pre- Fitzgerald corruption to the underbelly of today's drug culture ... 12 of Brisbane's most wanted crime writers explore the darker side of Australia's hottest big...

Most of Hawthorne's early writings were magazine stories subsequently collected in books. His second story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, includes many of his best-known short stories. Among the 22 stories in this edition...

This collection of wise and wonderful short stories captures those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface.

Dans les nouvelles de ce recueil, les thèmes abordés sont classiques et universels : l’amour et la mort, dont les pas complexes s’entremêlent dans un tango déchirant dansé sur la piste souvent trop étroite du quotidien. Les rencontres,...