Patrick WhiteThe Burnt Ones is a collection of eleven short stories by Australian writer Patrick White, first published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1964. Penguin Books published it in 1968...

Roald DahlThe son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two,...

Washington IrvingIn The Sketch-Book (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating...

David LeavittA collection of ten stories which explore the joys and agonies of love and friendship. Each of the stories illuminates a dark corner of human existance. Some are amusing...

Neil GaimanUnnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.The...

Chirta Banerjee DivakaruniA beautiful and poignant, award-winning collection which focuses on immigrants from India caught between two worlds.For the women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change,...

Stewart WeissIn this collection of original short stories, the reader will discover a universe of strength, glory and pathos just beyond the horizon, ever-so-slightly distant from his usual field of...

Jason WebsterHe fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as...

Lucy DillonFrom the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of Where the Light Gets in and All I Ever Wanted'Real, heart-breaking - I loved it' Katie Fforde'A heartwarming romantic comedy that tells...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerIt is no longer a secret, as Catherine Hughes pointed out in her America review of The Manor, that Isaac Bashevis Singer is “a teller of tales....

David Grossman"A fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past together in each of David Grossman's new novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can...

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...