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...

Edited by Clint WillisEpic is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster — the climb that went wrong; fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound,...

25 Escape Stories by various AuthorsThey have their exits - Airey NeaveThe Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness OrczyThe bald archaeologist (from The thirty-nine steps) - John BuchanFlight to freedom - Michael DonnetAn...

Edith Wharton   Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin,...

Avram Davidson This collection of Avram Davidson's complete Jewish stories dates from the author's experiences during World War II to his untimely death in 1993. It includes gems like: The...

Matt DunnWomaniser Dan Davis is failing to score with the ladies and he can't understand why. All is revealed when Dan comes across a mysterious website where women rate their...

Ted Chiang From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly...

Albert CamusThese six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated by Justin O'Brien.These works of fiction cover...

James Patterson with Elizabeth Hayley Since Siobhan has made it as an artist, she's ready to start a life in New York with the love of her life, billionaire Derick...