Grace Paley This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for...

Katherine Anne Porter Despite the enormous success--both critical and popular--of her novel Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter's reputation as one of America's most distinguished writers rest chiefly on her superb...

Franz KafkaThis volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative...

Roald Dahl Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 624 English Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.They are brutal. these...

Roald Dahl The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes.'Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child...

Lewis Carroll Classic tales, games, puzzles, wit and verse from the world of Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are now as much a part of every...

AB YehoshuaIronic, understated, masterly prose is the hallmark of A. B. Yehoshua's work. The ten stories collected here are representative of almost thirty years in his outstanding career. Some of...

Liao Yiwu The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain...

William Boyd This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I...

Joshua Ferris 'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can't do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from...

Shlomo Kalo With this collection of short stories, one of Israel's most controversial and polemnical writers is made available to the British and American reader for the first time. Writing...

Haruki Murakami When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A...