Short stories

Leanne Radojkovich's writing is full of crisp, precise details, and often contains a sting.

The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a northern realist parish priest and his sons; travel through the West of Ireland with a couple facing various extinctions; spy on the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior; engage in hand-to-hand fighting with a classroom full of Soviet teachers; follow the adventures of an Italian girl visiting her sick boyfriend in hospital; discover how hard it can be to get a passport for your first-born; find out why everyone pretends you're not there; investigate a seemingly victimless crime; reveal reasons for a Japanese girl's committing suicide; and realize that there's no need to be forgiven for things you didn't know you hadn't done.

'Deliciously Twisted' In the realms of fantasy, it is foolish to upset the wee folk.

Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of human desire, and the rigid social conventions of village life.

Nathaniel P.

Luana es una estrella aclamada.

The Cafe with Five Faces, hardly surprisingly, is a cafe with five distinct areas, each named after a city or town with which the author has a special affinity.

The daughter of the High King has a regal name, but she is small and plain, so everyone just calls her Wren.

Police Officer Patti Johnson is torn between duty and lost love.

';Beautiful and finely crafted.

Who said desperation and despair can't be evocative?

A cardigan of a different colour, a cup of tea and a card game prompt Polly to confront problems in one of her most important relationships.

The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s.

Fierce, poignant and funny, Washing the Dead is a collection of interlinked short stories, where a minor character in one story becomes the main one in another.

In "e;A Pair of Silk Stockings"e;, Mrs.

"e;Said the Poet"e; are writings of poetry, short stories, dramatized dreams, experiences of life by many different people of all ethnicities, ages, backgrounds and statuses from different time periods, instructions, political and controversial outlooks, writings of wisdom and much more, all as told and documented by a poet of much life experience of the poetry he calls life itself, and the true poem one writes just by simply living it.

The writings in this book come from real pain, betrayal, lost love, being left alone, and being mistreated.

Readers Beware of those appliances!

Uma história especialmente destinada a crianças com mais de 10 anos, mas também apropriada para gente adulta, baseada na vida social das formigas que, em termos de organização, tem muitas semelhanças com a estrutura social dos seres humanos.

Ship of Fools comprises twenty short stories, one for each year the author worked in the mental health system.

Loa Ho (also Lai He, 1894-1943) was a pioneering writer from Taiwan often called the 'father of New Taiwanese Literature'.

“Eight brief, pleasantly convoluted mysteries that resemble Sherlock Holmes stories without Sherlock .

READERS BEWARE You are about to set foot on a bizarre adventure, a funny fantastical one filled with demonic animals.

NIKOLAI HAITOV was born in 1919 in the village of Yavrovo in the Rhodope Mountains.

Apartamentos.

Domestic disturbance calls to the residence of Booth and Stacey Keiser aren't uncommon.

This collection of short stories recalls an era when the village was the centre of life in the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Jessie is tired of dealing with her drunk mother and life in a rough part of town, and when a creepy woman approaches her one morning and advises her to pay attention to Shakespeare's As You Like It in her English class she shrugs off the recommendation.

PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist: A "e;superb story collection"e; about America and Cuba, escape and return, and history and hope (Los Angeles Times).

The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter "e;transform[s] her pain into poetry"e; in this intimate collection (People).

The complete short stories—including six previously uncollected works and one novella—of award-winning British literary giant Beryl Bainbridge.

In Swimming with Diana Dors Jeremy Worman digs deep, bringing to life memorable characters who remain with the reader.

The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter "e;transform[s] her pain into poetry"e; in this intimate collection (People).

This collection of short stories from the Caribbean and England brings to life characters who are part of Caribbean folklore.

Longing for excitement in a heatwave, Liza inadvertently stumbles across the complexity of being a child in a grown-up world.

In the last column of a job application, there's that tricky question: reason for leaving?

Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897.

Luana is an adored celebrity.

The old inn sits by a lake in an ancient forest, shrouded in mystery.