Seventeen stories, including, for the first time in ANY collection, 1999 Bram Stoker Award winner "e;Five Days in April"e; -- along with the preceding Watchers story "e;Ten Days in July.
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?
A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years'Oh journey upon journey, my life is a brief moment, and I cannot hope that we will meet again'Roaming over mountains and along perilous shores, this anthology illuminates over a thousand years of Japanese travel writing.
'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents.
In the speculative fiction story Minerva's Oath, set in the Middle Ages, Minerva and her husband are deities who have lived amongst humans on different continents for millennia, and have witnessed the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history.
Eine von Ricarda Huchs berühmtesten Erzählungen über Revolution, Familie und einen GenerationenkonfliktEine Familie verbringt die Sommermonate auf dem Land.
Die ergreifende Geschichte einer Jugendliebe gilt als einer der berühmtesten Prosatexte von Iwan TurgenjewDer sechzehnjährige Wladimir Petrowitsch genießt seine jugendliche Freiheit.
Eine raffinierte Erzählung über Liebe, Kunst, Geld und GenderfluiditätEin Ball im Pariser Stadthaus der reichen, kultivierten Familie Lanty gibt Anlass zu Spekulationen.
Ein erholsam-idyllisches (Bilder-)Buch über die junge Liebe und sommerliche LandpartienEin junges Paar entflieht der hektischen Großstadt der frühen 1910er Jahre ins ländliche Idyll Rheinsberg.
The Mystery of the Stinky Classroom is packed with silly stories, dramatic reactions, goofy investigations, and 144 laugh-out-loud jokes kids can share again and again.
Based on true events, The Graveyard Shift tells the story of Cole, a medical student working the night shift, who starts to experience unusual events at the old hospital where he works.
When outsiders Fred and Luke arrive in Prosperity Springs seeking work, they quickly realize the labour contract they've signed binds them to a centuries-old secret ritual of fertility.
When monster hunter Amor's team is slaughtered by the gruesome beast they've been tailing, and death is at her throat, she finds herself thrown to safety.
Three stories - the never-before-published 'Picket Line', along with 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man' - showing Elmore Leonard at his most terse and thrilling 'Like all of Leonard s books, Picket Line is a taut and engaging tale.
This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flash before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all.
Short stories and poetry: written by three Irish writers, two living in Wexford and one in Dublin who worked together virtually during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020.
Something between a tale and a polemic, these "e;fables of reason"e; are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing.
