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Selected short stories

By O'Hara, John, 1905-1970

Paperback. English.

Published London: Vintage, 2011

These are refreshingly frank, sparely written stories that expose the world of bartenders and b-girls, car washers and criminals. John O'Hara dissects...

A bunch of fives

By Simpson, Helen, 1957-

Paperback. English.

Published London: Vintage Classic, 2012

These are funny, heartfelt, and sensuous stories that deal with the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between

Emerald city and other stories

By Egan, Jennifer

Paperback. English.

Published London: Corsair, 2012

These eleven masterful stories, the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan, deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's...

And thereby hangs a tale

By Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-

Paperback. English.

Published London: Pan, 2010

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott...

Too much happiness

By Munro, Alice

Paperback. English.

Published London: Vintage, 2010

These are dazzling, provocative stories about Svengali men and radical women who outmanoeuvre then, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships...

Reheated cabbage: tales of chemical degeneration

By Welsh, Irvine

Paperback. English.

Published London: Vintage, 2010

Most of the stories in 'Reheated Cabbage' originally appeared in fugitive form in magazines and long out-of-print anthologies. Finally collected together...

Kiss kiss

By Dahl, Roald

Paperback. English.

Published London: Penguin, 2011

In these wickedly anarchic stories, Dahl explores the dark, sinister side of the psyche: the cunning, sly, selfish part of human nature that makes for...

Selected stories

By Munro, Alice

Paperback. English.

Published London: Vintage, 2010

Alice Munro exposes the secrets of people with apparently mundane lives. The first short story reveals a child's eye view of her travelling salesman father...

Screw-jack

By Thompson, Hunter S

Paperback. English.

Published London: Picador, 2010

Including a chronicle of his first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with an unnaturally poignant love story, 'Screw-Jack'...