Item category 1: Short Stories

Twenty-five stories from the master of detective writers.

A collection of traditional Scottish stories for children, full of animals and ogres, kings and broonies, fairies and ordinary folk.

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis and the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise this book, represent the darker side of the 19th century sensibility.

Set on a Caribbean island, this magical collection tells the stories of the various people staying at a dream hotel and the connections that form between some of them as their holidays go on.

This is a collection of three wartime adventures that will transport the reader to the heart of the First World War by land, sea and air. In 'The Trenches' Billy Stevens, a telegraph operator, finds himself part of the deadly Battle of Passchendaele. 'Standing Alone' tells the true story of Jack ...