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The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian …

"I feel dizzy and light as a feather. Our hands explore each other's bodies, and all our clothes end up on the floor. When I pull her tank top over her, head, I notice that she is …

To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each …

Everybody’s Gulf War Syndrome is a little bit different. Or so believes Larry, who returns home from Desert Storm to find his hair gone and his bones rapidly disintegrating. Then …

Ihmisten välisistä seuraleikeistä ja totuuden hetkistäTove Janssonin novellikokoelma Seuraleikki vuodelta 1991 sisältää 13 kirkasta ja kiteytynyttä tarinaa ihmisiin kohdistuvista …

“With his free hand, he loosened the noose around his neck and managed to wriggle the tie over his head. Seconds later the smooth silk loop was wrapped around my wrists and pulled …

This book substantiates two claims. First, the modern world was not simply produced by "e;objective"e; factors, rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific …

The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.

'The Diamond Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant portrays the complexities and consequences of keeping up appearances in the 19th century. Mathilde is a young and beautiful woman, …

Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in …

'Mary Lavin's stories... are subtle without making a palaver about it, beautifully told, no pat endings, no slickness; and as in life, nothing is resolved.' William TrevorFirst …

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.' With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the …