Modern & contemporary fiction

Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home. The family - that small circle of being where love should flourish - can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite.

These stories of the Jewish-Italian middle class of Ferrara seen on the eve of the Fascist anti-Semitic laws have a dimension of irony as well as wasted lives. Bassani returns to the city with the narrator of 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis', and his poignant mixture of intimacy and eloquence. ...

Here are seven short stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things from Amanda Prowse. The collection includes: 'Something Quite Beautiful', 'The Game', 'Ten Pound Ticket', 'Imogen's Baby', and 'Miss Potterton's Birthday Tea'.

Two terrifying classics by 'the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction' (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, 'Songs of a Dead Dreamer,' and his second, 'Grimscribe,' permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors ...

Taking us from the mundane to the magical, this award-winning collection will entertain and delight. Drawing inspiration from Asian myth and folklore, 'Zen Cho' guides the reader through enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires, and incorrigible grandmothers. These nineteen sparkling stori...

This collection of tales are set mainly in suburban, lower middle-class Dublin between the wars. They include autobiographical childhood sketches and a series of tales about two families, and the lonely marriages of each.

Some of the characters in this collection have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether young or old, self-confident or ground-down, local or blow-in, all of them are reaching uneasy compromises with the world they inhabit and the landscape in...

A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet's syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly-formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A...

Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Victoria Hislop has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume. Here are Man Booker Prize-winners and Nobel Laureates, feminis...

This is a collection of short stories from the legendary German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). As well as highlighting the themes that run throughout his work, the collection demonstrates that his singular style could create extraordinary imaginative worlds that will d...