Alice Munro   Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined...

Thomas Mann "Death In Venice" tells the tragic story of a man who falls into foolish, forbidden love, only to reap his own ruin. While on holiday in Venice, a...

Author: Ken Kesey In this collection of short stories, Ken Kesey challenges public and private demons with a wrestler's brave and deceptive embrace, making it clear that the energy of...

Sheila O'Flanagan This collection of short stories is set around the DART - the Dublin Area Rapid Transport system - and includes two eavesdropping train passengers who learn more than...

Agatha ChristieIncludes all the Tommy & Tuppence, Harley Quinn and Parker Pyne stories!While Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are Agatha Christie's best known creations, it was her other detectives which...

Anita Desai Anita Desai, in a succession of fine novels and short story collections written over almost 40 years, was one of the first writers from the sub-continent to introduce...

Tibor FischerA dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novella 'I Like being Killed'...

Sophie Judah A marvelous fiction debut–a collection of richly told, deeply moving stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world.In...

James Joyce   "Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? To give people some kind of...

James Salter This short-story collection won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award for James Salter, author of Solo Faces and A Sport and A Pastime. Here, Salter's themes are memory and loss,...

Alan LightmanA modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant...

Alan LightmanIt is 1905 in Berne, Switzerland. A young patent clerk has been dreaming marvellous dreams about the nature of time. He is Albert Einstein and he has almost finished...