From Bryony Rheam, the award-winning author of All Come to Dust and This September Sun, comes a collection of sixteen short stories shining a spotlight on life in Zimbabwe over the last twenty years. The daily routines and the greater fate of ordinary Zimbabweans are represented with a deft, compassionate touch and flashes of humour.
This book of new stories by novelist and short story writer Jerome Mandel tells tales of the head, the heart, and writing — some gritty, some witty, some smooth.
From science fiction to the surreal, this astonishing collection explores — amongst other things — gender dynamics, matriarchy, and sex, whilst intersecting with fictional lives from literacy classics.
Exploring the impact of social and technological change on the family dynamic, these short stories illuminate the chasms between generations. A finalist for The Story Prize.
A double A-side of stories featuring a reclusive seventies folk singer who drops her guard to a music journalist on a stormy night in London, and a young English couple who become entangled with a charming yet mysterious stranger in a Mexican resort.
From one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed writers, comes a hauntingly surreal collection of short stories from a Christmas gathering with one person missing to an obsessively observant neighbour. Told with a Kafkaesque sense of detachment.
Four disturbing tales of love gone wrong from one of the most eminent writers of her generation. From a shy teenager in the first throws of love to the fourth wife of a prominent intellectual, these stories explore what people will do to find, keep and end love.
Carefully unwrap this chilling collection of classic Christmas stories spanning horror, mystery and crime. A fireside feast of fearsome festive fiction!
