Short stories

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

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

Kim Tongin (1900-1951) is one of Korea's earliest and most respected modern writers whose naturalist fiction brilliantly depicts Korean life during a period of profound social change.

';I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.

Praised as utterly remarkable and deeply resonant by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.

"e;You have to understand,"e; says the woman, "e;an incorcism is nothing like its counterpart.

';Beautiful and finely crafted.

To a future girl, Mishell, who flies with the aid of anti-gravity wings, the death in a freak accident of a beloved older brother, Mykel, is hard to accept.

Someone killed Bill, and whoever it was stole all the money.

Beautiful, rich short stories, drawing on myth and folklore to bring to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances.

Nathaniel P.

Who said desperation and despair can't be evocative?

Het is kerstavond in de stad.

Meet the people who make it all happenthe photographers, chefs, and the writers who have helped orchestrate and document the perfect day for countless couplesas they find their own happy endings in three sweet novellas.

A 1950s Texas small town reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school integration in this novella by the author of American Originals.

Someone killed Bill, and whoever it was stole all the money.

The eleven short stories in this book take us back to an Alexandria past, the cosmopolitan city as it was experienced by the author in the years before, during, and following the Second World War.

Christmas from the Heart is a collection of short stories that revolve around the Christmas season.

In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, killing at least 72 people and injuring many more.

Bold, beautiful and spiky, Angela Readman's stories are both magical and real.

"e;Girl,"e; my mama had said to me the minute she entered my hospital room, "e;on the highway of life, you're always traveling left of center.

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

Born in what is now North Korea, Kang wrote all her fiction in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation and witnessed the violence and daily struggles experienced by ethnic Koreans living in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

"e;Three Stories and Ten Poems"e; is the 1923 literary debut of the famous and influential American writer, Ernest Hemingway.

The Age of Doubt collects some of Pak Kyongni's most famous works, including her 1955 debut and other stories featuring characters that would appear in her 21-volume epic, Toji.

If you ever thought that animals can't know true love, you never knew the girls.

Not every story has a happy ending.

From the author of Between Everything and Nothing, "e;an inspired collection of twenty stories, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective"e; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

An original and thought provoking collection of short stories and photographs with an astounding range from Cleopatra bathing in the fountain of youth, to time travel, to the Egyptian Goddess of the Nile Anuket inviting a young man to an exchange.

';Candid, cunning, brave, and wickedly funny,' these stories ';will make you remember the first time you read Philip Roth' (Salvatore Scibona).

Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction .

How long does it take for an alien bug to enslave a town?

Readers Beware of these twisted literary pieces!

100 Short Stories is the author's second book of short stories.

';From the absurdly comic to the acutely moving'eleven fearless stories of love, friendship, faith and family under siege (The New York Times Book Review).

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.

For almost seven decades, ten ladies have met for lunch on May 8, to celebrate their friendship and shared history.

Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature.

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