Hanif KureishiA collection of short stories includes the tale of a Pakistani girl's visit to London, which causes a revolution in her suburban home, and the dilemmas of once carefree...

Jorge Luis Borges Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds...

Susanna ClarkeThe Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories(Strange & Norrell #1.5)rom the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you...

The Autumn Land and Other StoriesClifford D. SimakSelected from the span of Simak's writing career, this collection demonstrates the wide-ranging possibilities of the science fiction story. Frank Lyall introduces the...

Rosamunde PilcherThrough thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again,. Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays...

Etgar KeretIn this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel's bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters' lives. Daring, illuminating, intense and poignant, these stories are...

Edith WhartonJohn Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon...

Tracy ChevalierThis collection of original stories by today’s finest woman writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane EyreA fixture in the literary canon,...

Deborah MoggachChanging Babies will delight both die-hard fans of Deborah Moggach's books and those readers new to her charm and wit. In it she writes of a woman who thinks...

Edited by Tobias WolffThe thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they...

Ayelet Tsabari“Tsabari’s characters will step off the page to captivate readers.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLYConfident, original and humane, these stories are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities:...

Gardner Dozois (Editor)Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to...