Modern & contemporary 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Fact: Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Fact: Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last two decades. Fact: Despite great leaps forward in other branches of medicine, no biological test can currently diagnose any mental health problem.So where are we going wrong? In ...

Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this publication celebrates the best of A.S. Byatt's short stories.

In 'The Memory Librarian' music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, 'Dirty Computer,' to explore how different threads of liberation - queerness, race, gender plurality, love - become tangled in a totalitarian lands...

Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long relationships, Lively explores with keen insight the ways that individuals c...

Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long relationships, Lively explores with keen insight the ways that individuals c...