This title contains 15 short stories, each with an introduction by the author. From the gentle romance of 'Kissing Emily Baker', to the trials and tribulations...
The characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters...
In 'Tales of Freedom', Ben Okri brings both poetry and story together in a fascinating new form, using writing and image pared down to their essentials...
Always touching a spiritual dimension in a rabidly material world, Kenneth Steven writes of people not quite feeling there in the lives they live, about...
Stretching faultlessly from Paris to inner-city Birmingham, from the present day to the 1940s, these stories explore the daily misunderstandings and self...
This title brilliantly chronicles the dramas and dilemmas inherent in our human condition, in another outstanding collection from one of Britain's leading...
In his collected short stories we find the essence of Paul Theroux's experience, spanning 25 years of writing. His characters live all over the world,...
Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread...