John Mortimer Horace Rumpole — a man who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on his knowledge, whose court scenes are proverbial and whose home is ruled by Mrs Rumpole is...

Edited by Patricia Craig This collection of thirty-three stories shows the scope, vigour, and enduring fascination of the detective story, as well as indicating its importance as a barometer of...

George Saunders The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow," about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the...

Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Kinley MacGregor Dear Avon Books,Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong...

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...

Charles J Finger Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals,...

Author: Rudyard Kipling First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military...

Anne Frank Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary...

Shlomo Kalo With this collection of short stories, one of Israel's most controversial and polemnical writers is made available to the British and American reader for the first time. Writing...

Author: Saul Bellow The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the...

Cecelia AhernFrom the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates, sometimes in fantastical ways, how women of all kinds navigate the world today—soon...

Author: Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy imagined a street in Dublin with many characters coming and going, and every once in a while she would write about one of these people....