John Updike A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth...

Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and the White is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. Now a major BBC TV drama, it captured hearts and left readers desperate...

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget...

Thomas Hardy Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his...

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...

Mary Gaitskill Fierce, raw tales of love and sex and obsession--not since Ethan Canin's Emperor of the Air has there been such excitement surrounding a debut short-story collection.Daisy's valentine --A romantic weekend...

Ernest Hemingway At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, "Up in Michigan." Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the...

EM Forster Written at various dates before World War I, these 12 stories contain themes that were to re-emerge in E.M. Forster's later work. They demonstrate his belief in freedom,...

Roald Dahl Roald Dahl was badly wounded in Libya during the war, but he went on to serve in the RAF in Greece and Syria. In these spine-tingling tales of...

Franz Kafka

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...