Short stories

A collection of Agatha Christie's stories of the macabre and the occult, where a message from beyond the grave unmasks an insane killer, and a nun has the power to cause a landslide.

'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People'Remarkable, rare and truly brilliant' MEGAN NOLAN, author of Acts of Desperation'Dark, funny, honest and engrossing' RODDY DOYLE, author of Love'Refreshing and ambitious' LISA MCINERNEY, author of The Rules of RevelationOn an island off Ireland's west coast strange things are afoot: two teenage boys set fires while their worlds fall apart, a couple drive out to the hills in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, a widow seeks a stranger's help to bury her grief and a horse crashes a house party.

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR'What was it about complaining that felt so good?

Twenty-three of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov.

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The three Uhtred stories featured in this audio edition are also included in UHTRED'S FEAST, available to buy in hardback.

Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.

A collection of compelling short stories by the author of the Wexford novels - A Needle for the Devil, The Dreadful Day of Judgement, A Glowing Future, A Case of Coincidence, The Wrong Category and Paint Box PlaceWhen Alice Gibson married Lieutenant Colonel Clarigate (Retd.

Read by the inimitable Christopher Lee, this audiobook contains four short stories from the great detective's case book.

'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI'Extraordinary .

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense.

A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne.

'Fiendishly clever and highly addictive.

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An epic collection of fantasy tales in the grand tradition, including a never-before-published A Song of Ice and Fire story by George R.

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published.

16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy.

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By the legendary Queen of Crime, this all-new collection of stories about love gone wrong will get your heart racing.

A brilliant collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.

A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEA Granta Best Young British Novelist'A thrilling love for the stuff of language .

'A thrill for the sickos among us' JIA TOLENTINO'Utterly inimitable' RAVEN LEILANI'Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENTLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTIONAn audacious, original and unforgettable novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.

Praise for Cressida McLaughlin:'Captivating' Heat Magazine'Beautiful.

Sorting out a village shattered by a series of poison pen letters is just up Hetty Wainthropp's street, as is a runaway couple, a blackmailing medium and finding out the betrayer at a refuge for battered wives.

Combined into one volume, this is the definitive collection of Tolkien's five acclaimed modern classic 'fairie' tales in the vein of The Hobbit, read by Derek Jacobi.

The wonderful story collection from the author of Standard Deviation'Heiny's work does something magical: gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve and makes you laugh along the way' Lena Dunham'Like Cheever mixed with Ephron' New York Times'Simply wonderful, I savoured every page' GuardianMaya's dog is dying, and she is planning to leave her boyfriend.

A flawless collection of short stories that Christie herself referred to as 'light-hearted thrillers'.

An all-new collection of winter-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the festive period.

First published fifteen years ago, shortly after his death, inside this collection are some of the finest short stories of science fiction writing from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov.

Read by the inimitable Christopher Lee are four tales from the great detective's case book, including bones that won't stay buried and an exotic South American vampire.

A collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career and the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck.

Six short stories from the Queen of Crime, featuring our favourite young detectives, Tommy and Tuppence.

An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.

Wise and funny, touching and true, What We're Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up.

From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes an all-new collection of effortlessly beautiful talesRecently described in The Times as 'the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction' Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy(R).

"e;[Jean Ann] Douglass' narration, intimate and bemused and every so often curling up with wryness at the end of a sentence, is a perfect match for Shun-lien Bynum's delicate delights.

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In this quirky, humorous, and deeply human short story collection, Pushcart Prize-nominated author R.

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.

A collection of 16 short stories from Edmund Crispin featuring his beloved amateur detective, Gervase Fen.

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero.

An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season.

Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction.

Around the world in 22 murders.

An all-new collection of spring-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.

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