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  • Best British Short Stories 2024

    by Nicholas Royle, Nicholas Royle, Alan Beard, Kevin Boniface, Paul Brownsey, Claire Carroll, ECM Cheung, Jonathan Coe, Rosie Garland, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Timothy J Jarvis0, Cynan Jones1, Bhanu Kapil2, Sonya Moor3, Alison Moore4, Gregory Norminton5, Cherise Saywell6, Kamila Shamsie7, Ben Tufnell8, Charlotte Turnbull9, Cate West0 ...
    Series Book 0 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fourteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • The Book of Sheffield

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Geoff Nicholson, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Johny Pitts, Helen Mort, Desiree Reynolds, Karl Riordan ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.From its botanical gardens and elegant parks, to the brutalist high-rise estates of Park Hill, and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between the forges of the past and the melting pot of the present.Bringing together new short stories from some of the city’s ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Ghost Who Bled

    by Gregory Norminton ...
    A simple act of gallantry in the Malaysian jungle spawns a lifelong feud in the Home Counties...A fading actor with a terminal illness devises a meticulous plan to leave the stage in style...A pregnant composer contemplates motherhood at the end of civilisation...Spanning centuries and continents, the stories in this collection amount to a tour de force of literary worldbuilding. From deeply ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Lost Art of Losing

    by Gregory Norminton ...
    The Lost Art of Losing is a collection of aphorisms by award-winning novelist Gregory Norminton. By turns comic and despairing, jubilant and wry, they present, through fragments, a picture of the mind — and of troubling times. Gregory Norminton transforms the aphorism into something more accessible and personal. Ultimately he uses aphorisms to question everything — including the aphorism itself: ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Beacons

    Stories for our Not So Distant Future

    Edited by Gregory Norminton ...
    An incredible collection of stories for our shared planet from the likes of Joanne Harris, Toby Litt and Liz JensenA riveting and provocative collection of short fiction, Beacons throws down the gauntlet to award-winning writers, challenging them to devise original responses to the climate crisis. From Joanne Harris’ cautionary tale of a world where ‘outside’ has become a thing of the past, to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Thumbnails

    by Gregory Norminton ...
    Thumbnails is a collection of short stories or “micrograms” in which Gregory Norminton once again experiments with form, using his stylish and witty prose to examine the nooks and crannies of our distracted lives. Witty and thought-provoking, the stories are brief but clear sketches very different people and places in very different times. Taken as a whole, the collection is an exercise in ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Dictionary of Received Ideas

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Gregory Norminton ...
    A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the cliched with darkly humorous explanations. A playful look at nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $2.56 USD

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    by Rosalind Fergusson ...
    If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhyming dictionaries are characterised by the use of obscure words for padding, subsections for disyllabic and trisyllabic rhymes, and reverse phonetic order – but we avoid such complications and, as a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Inside the Wave

    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

    by Helen Dunmore ...
    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

    Poems

    by Mark Haddon ...
    From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems.The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here—the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism—but ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Beautiful Indifference

    Stories

    by Sarah Hall ...
    Winner of the Portico PrizeWinner of the Edge Hill University Short Story PrizeShort-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award“Every one of the seven tales here delights and disturbs in equal measure. The Beautiful Indifference illustrates that short fiction is indeed a finely wrought art form, and Hall is an artist of considerable and concise skill. Each story is a gem, but ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salvage Rites: And Other Stories

    by Ian Watson ...
    Ian Watson's latest collection shows the same range and apparently inexhaustible fund of ideas that have characterized all his previous books. No other contemporary figure in SF is so prolific or inventive a writer of short stories. In the title story we immediately encounter a phantasmagoric vision of a society increasingly dependent on recycling its usable material; other brilliant inventions ... Read more

    $3.99 USD