Modern & contemporary fiction

'Mothers and Sons' is a collection of nine stories focusing on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother and son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.

From Belfast to London and back again the ten stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy, the fleeting and the formative - or 'the drunkenness of things being various'. Stories of longing and bel...

Afghanistan has a rich literary history, but chronic instability, compounded now by the current crisis, have meant that women's voices have remained hidden. This anthology is the result of more than two years working Afghan women writers. They have strong, original, and unexpected stories to tell...

The seven stories in 'A Nail, A Rose' confirm Madeleine Bourdouxhe's status as an under-appreciated master of the form. Like her critically lauded novels Marie and La Femme de Gilles, these stories tunnel into the conflicted hearts of their female characters in fluid, beautiful prose.

Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout 'New Suns 2', in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories by people of colour, revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders.

This volume showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book's covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings.

Based on real life events, 'News of a Kidnapping' offers an account of how drug baron Pablo Escobar undermined all of Colombia's civil institutions by murder or bribery, and explores the fate of those he took hostage.

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends ...

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories like 'The Ungrateful Rat' where a rude rodent insults ...

On hearing her neighbour's body plummet on to her patio, a woman's comfortable life seems to split open. A cab driver's perfectly manicured nails may be concealing grisly secrets. A woman whose partner has left her begins to act out an increasingly deranged set of instructions. In these tense, ma...