Modern & contemporary fiction

Living in Ancient Greece in the 5th Century BC, Aesop was said to be a slave and story-teller. His much-loved, enduring fables are revered the world over and remain popular as moral tales for children. This title presents a collection of his fables.

From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of the twelve stories in 'After the Funeral', small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father...

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes of dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries and identity.

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H.H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Archer presents this sixth collection of stories.

This debut collection of stories opens up the lives of characters whose worlds seethe with obsession and dark tension. Set in Ireland and the deep South of America, they reveal lives where dreams, memory and chance can lead to crippling effects.

Fizzing with energy and wit, Mira Sethi's funny and moving stories of people at sea in a society negotiating its way between East and West gives us a portrait of contemporary Pakistan as we've never seen it before.

'The Awkward Black Man' collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self...

'The Awkward Black Man' collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self...

These five rich, witty and magical stories, from the author of 'Out of Africa', include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film.

'Barrel Fever' is a collection of personal essays, surprising, disarming, and funny, from David Sedaris.