General Fiction

A debut collection of stories that brings together over 15 years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and e...

A debut collection of stories that brings together over 15 years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and e...

Have you been wondering what happened to your favourite characters Ruth Galloway and Harry Nelson? Dive into this collection of stories and find out. Here are stories to suit all tastes. There are ghost stories and mini cosy mysteries; tales of psychological suspense and poignant vignettes of lov...

This must-have collection of tales by the author features all her best-loved characters: Ruth Galloway, Harry Nelson, Max Mephisto, Detective Harbinder Kaur and many more. It includes several stories never published before, as well as a new Ruth and Nelson story. Essential reading for all Elly's ...

In the title story a man buys a ninety-nine year lease on an island and finds himself cast off in its timeless world; in 'The Last Laugh' a couple are confronted with uncanny spectral visions, and an eerie faceless laugh; in 'The Fox' two women maintaining a farm feel the dark shadows of war, and...

'Manchester Happened' is a masterful collection of short stories by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, whose debut novel Kintu was published to great acclaim earlier this year. Set in Manchester and Kampala, the stories form a moving and powerful work about the experience of immigration and about how we...

This is an enchanting collection of stories both melancholy and funny about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an...

John Constantine is back in London, back to his old tricks - and just in time, as things have become very dark indeed in his old stomping grounds. A small-time gang lord has found himself dealing with a big-time outbreak of supernatural weirdness and, without any allies to call on and nothing lef...

On an Earth shockingly similar to the Marvel Universe's, an alien virus has infected all of the world's greatest super heroes and turned them into flesh-eating monsters! It took them only hours to destroy life as we know it - but what happens when they run out of humans to eat?

This retelling, in comics form, of nine biblical stories presents Chester Brown's startling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and the Virgin Mother and then reassesses the Christian moral c...