Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott...
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...
There are times when ladies must use all their wisdom and good sense to face life's problems and mysteries. Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No.1 Ladies' Detective...
'Stories' is a collection of some of the very best original fiction by worldwide imaginative writers, as well as a showcase for some of fiction's newer...
For 50 years prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry...
A charming spinster with kleptomaniac tendencies, a wealthy engineer in love with his wife's cleaning lady, a middle-aged woman with an imaginary boyfriend...
Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again, Lavinia remembers...
A family Christmas, a picnic, a house-party in France, the subtle tension of relationships, from flat-sharing to adultery, a haunting journey to macabre...
With her trademark honesty, Cecelia Ahern gives us thirty stories, all titled 'The Woman Who-', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous...