Item category 1: Short Stories

This volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short story.

The Scottish story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories were told to entertain. The Devil and the giro includes stories from all the major Scottish writers both famous and unsung. The anthology encompasses many examples of the themes in which Scottish writers have always excelled, mo...

A perfect introduction to Agatha Christie - four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for their readability and sense of adventure.

How thin is the line between good and evil? Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him to occasionally abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde.

These eleven masterful stories, the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan, deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.

Go on a picnic, visit the seaside or throw coconuts at the summer fair in this collection of stories perfect for the sunshine.