General Fiction

In a world where monsters roam freely, some stories have been lost to time - until now! In 'Legends', the kaiju of Godzilla's fearsome rogues' gallery get the spotlight. Featuring Anguirus, Rodan, Titanosaurus, Hedorah, and Kumonga! Then, meet Godzilla's greatest adversary of all time - the impos...

This is a bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single, crumbling apartment building in Ukraine that heralds the arrival of a major new talent. A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's ingeniously intertwined...

One of the greatest writers from America's Deep South, Flannery O'Connor's collection of stories is set against a background of poverty and cruelty.

Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction.

A selection of the best Irish short stories of the last 60 years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry.

Nicole Claveloux's short stories - originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English - are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory colour or elegant black-and-white, she brings us...

In this collection of classic fairy tales, Philip Pullman chooses his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling. He brings the heart of each timeless tale to the fore, following with a brief commentary on the story's background and history.

Private John Francis Clayton is on his first tour of duty in Vietnam, facing death at every turn in the middle of a war he doesn't understand. Clayton is just trying to stay alive when he encounters an elite platoon of ... simian soldiers? This squad of chain-smoking chimps is the most dangerous ...

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains...

Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, this novel contains three main characters who get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. It is about Africa, about the end of colonialism, about class and race, and the ways in which love can complicate these things.