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Whether you’re after a lovingly curated book of poetry, a collection of classic short stories, mesmerising fairy tales or timeless fables, here you’ll find our vast selection of the bestselling and best-loved poetry and short fiction anthologies, many of them housed in beautiful gift editions.

Our Bestselling Anthologies & Short Stories

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
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The Haunting Season
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The Haunting Season
Bridget Collins
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Old Babes in the Wood
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Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
£22.00   £17.99
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Grimm Tales
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Grimm Tales
Philip Pullman
£20.00
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Send Nudes
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Send Nudes
Saba Sams
£9.99
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Men Without Women
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Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
£9.99
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Loathe To Love You
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Loathe To Love You
Ali Hazelwood
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Uhtred's Feast
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Uhtred's Feast
Bernard Cornwell
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Murder in a Heatwave
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Murder in a Heatwave
Cecily Gayford
£8.99   £7.49
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First Person Singular
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First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami
£9.99
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Sparring Partners
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Sparring Partners
John Grisham
£8.99
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Dolphin Junction
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Dolphin Junction
Mick Herron
£8.99
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Sinister Spring
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Sinister Spring
Agatha Christie
£14.99
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The Jealousy Man
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The Jealousy Man
Jo Nesbo
£9.99
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw
£9.99
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Hilary Mantel
£9.99
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
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The bestselling author of Life After Life and Shrines of Gaiety spins a set of bewitching, wildly imaginative short stories where unusual occurrences infiltrate everyday life.
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Our Best New Anthologies & Short Stories

Marple: Twelve New Stories
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Marple: Twelve New Stories
Agatha Christie
£9.99   £7.99
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
£18.99   £16.99
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Life Ceremony
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Life Ceremony
Sayaka Murata
£9.99   £7.99
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Ghost Lover
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Ghost Lover
Lisa Taddeo
£8.99   £7.49
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The Beast You Are: Stories
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The Beast You Are: Stories
Paul Tremblay
£9.99
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After the Funeral
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After the Funeral
Tessa Hadley
£18.99
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Things to Come and Go
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Things to Come and Go
Bette Howland
£9.99
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Burning Angel and Other Stories
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Burning Angel and Other Stories
Lawrence Osborne
£18.99
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The Truth Has Arms and Legs
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The Truth Has Arms and Legs
Alice Fowler
£9.99
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Zero-Sum
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Zero-Sum
Joyce Carol Oates
£16.99
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Truth & Dare
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Truth & Dare
So Mayer
£10.99
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Last Comes the Raven
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Last Comes the Raven
Italo Calvino
£9.99
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Selected Stories
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Selected Stories
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
£14.99
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nothing but a set of eyes for stars
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nothing but a set of eyes for stars
Kirstin Innes
£9.95
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Binocular Vision
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Binocular Vision
Edith Pearlman
£12.99
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Islanders
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Islanders
Cathy Thomas
£9.99
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Tales of Tangier
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Tales of Tangier
Mohamed Choukri
£10.99
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Our Best Classic Short Stories

Dubliners
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Dubliners
James Joyce
£8.99
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
£6.99
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
Lafcadio Hearn
£9.99
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Hell Screen
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Hell Screen
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
£9.99
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Big Blonde
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Big Blonde
Dorothy Parker
£9.99
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The Complete Short Fiction
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The Complete Short Fiction
Oscar Wilde
£8.99
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The Complete Short Stories
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The Complete Short Stories
Roald Dahl
£14.99
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The Collected Dorothy Parker
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The Collected Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
£12.99
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Apricot Jam and Other Stories
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Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
£9.99
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The Complete Short Stories
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The Complete Short Stories
H. Munro
£10.99
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Master and Man and Other Stories
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Master and Man and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
£10.99
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
Lorna Sage
£8.99
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The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
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The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Grace Paley
£9.99
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Wild Places
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Wild Places
Katherine Mansfield
£14.99
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Our Best Crime Short Stories

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
£6.99
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Sparring Partners
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Sparring Partners
John Grisham
£8.99
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Dolphin Junction
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Dolphin Junction
Mick Herron
£8.99
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The Jealousy Man
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The Jealousy Man
Jo Nesbo
£9.99
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Murder by the Book
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Murder by the Book
Martin Edwards
£10.99
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No Middle Name
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No Middle Name
Lee Child
£9.99
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Death Threats
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Death Threats
Georges Simenon
£8.99
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Sleep No More
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Sleep No More
P. D. James
£8.99
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Murder Takes a Holiday
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Murder Takes a Holiday
Various
£8.99
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Murder in Midsummer
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Murder in Midsummer
Cecily Gayford
£8.99
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Guilty Creatures
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Guilty Creatures
Martin Edwards
£9.99
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A Spot of Folly
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A Spot of Folly
Ruth Rendell
£8.99
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Bryant & May - London's Glory
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Bryant & May - London's Glory
Christopher Fowler
£10.99
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Bodies from the Library
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Bodies from the Library
Tony Medawar
£9.99
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Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021
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Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021
Lee Child
£18.99
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Our Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Stories

Stories of Your Life and Others
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
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If It Bleeds
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If It Bleeds
Stephen King
£10.99
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Dark Tales
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Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
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Smoke and Mirrors
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Smoke and Mirrors
Neil Gaiman
£10.99
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Haunted
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Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk
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The Last Seance
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The Last Seance
Agatha Christie
£9.99
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Thirteen Storeys
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Thirteen Storeys
Jonathan Sims
£8.99
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Weird Woods
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Weird Woods
John Miller
£9.99
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The Paper Menagerie
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The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
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The Cyberiad
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The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem
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Cold Hand in Mine
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Cold Hand in Mine
Robert Aickman
£9.99
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The Haunting Season
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The Haunting Season
Bridget Collins
£8.99
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Cosmogramma
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Cosmogramma
Courttia Newland
£12.99
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We'll Always Have Paris
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We'll Always Have Paris
Ray Bradbury
£8.99
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Reality, and Other Stories
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Reality, and Other Stories
John Lanchester
£8.99
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Moonrise
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Moonrise
Mike Ashley
£8.99
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Illuminations
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Illuminations
Alan Moore
£20.00
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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
Cho Nam-Joo
£14.99
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Through eight 'biographies' of Korean women aged 10 to 80, the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 delivers a searing critique of the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea.
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Our Best Short Stories in Translation

Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
£8.99
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Cursed Bunny
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Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
£12.99
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Men Without Women
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Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
£9.99
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Things We Lost in the Fire
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez
£9.99
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A Winter Book
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A Winter Book
Tove Jansson
£9.99
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The Complete Cosmicomics
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The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
£9.99
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Where The Wild Ladies Are
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Where The Wild Ladies Are
Aoko Matsuda
£9.99
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Happy Stories, Mostly
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Happy Stories, Mostly
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
£9.99
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Exile and the Kingdom
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Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus
£9.99
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After the Sun
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After the Sun
Jonas Eika
£12.99
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Collected Stories
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Collected Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
£9.99
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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird
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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird
Lyse Doucet
£12.00
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Ninth Building
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Ninth Building
Jingzhi Zou
£11.99
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The Impostor
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The Impostor
Silvina Ocampo
£9.99
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Wild Swims
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Wild Swims
Dorthe Nors
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Last Evenings On Earth
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Last Evenings On Earth
Roberto Bolano
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Our Best Novellas

Small Things Like These
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
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The Outsider
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The Outsider
Albert Camus
£8.99
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Giovanni's Room
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
£9.99
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The Cat Who Saved Books
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The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
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Heaven
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Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
£9.99
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
£8.99
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Of Mice and Men
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
£8.99
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter
£9.99
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The Guest Cat
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The Guest Cat
Takashi Hiraide
£9.99
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A Month in the Country
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A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr
£7.99
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The Vegetarian
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
£8.99
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The Summer Book
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The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
£9.99
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Good Morning, Midnight
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Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys
£9.99
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Kitchen
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
£9.99
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The End of the Affair
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The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
£9.99
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The Driver's Seat
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The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark
£8.99
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A Spy In The House Of Love
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A Spy In The House Of Love
Anais Nin
£8.99
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Our Best Poetry Anthologies

The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£14.99
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Poems of the Decade
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Poems of the Decade
Forward Arts Foundation
£9.99
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Dancing By The Light of The Moon
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Dancing By The Light of The Moon
Gyles Brandreth
£10.99
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Poem for the Day
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Poem for the Day
Nicholas Albery
£16.99
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£9.99
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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She is Fierce
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She is Fierce
Ana Sampson
£10.99
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100 Queer Poems
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100 Queer Poems
Andrew McMillan
£12.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
William Sieghart
£14.99
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
£19.99
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The Golden Treasury
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The Golden Treasury
Francis Turner Palgrave
£10.99
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Poems to Live Your Life By
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Poems to Live Your Life By
Chris Riddell
£12.99
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A Poem for Every Autumn Day
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A Poem for Every Autumn Day
Allie Esiri
£16.99
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Dog Poems
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Dog Poems
Various
£8.99
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100 Poets
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100 Poets
John Carey
£10.99
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Classic Anthologies, Collections and Boxed Sets

The Penguin Classics Book
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The Penguin Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
£14.99
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Fairy Tales
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Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
£25.00
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Classic Cat Stories
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Classic Cat Stories
Becky Brown
£10.99
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New York Stories
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New York Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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Classic Dog Stories
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Classic Dog Stories
Ned Halley
£10.99
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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables
Agnes Miller Parker
£30.00
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London Stories
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London Stories
£15.00
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Tales of the Jazz Age
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Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£14.99
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The Birds And Other Stories
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The Birds And Other Stories
Daphne Du Maurier
£14.99
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
£12.99
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The Collected Stories
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The Collected Stories
Alexander Pushkin
£16.99
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The Complete Short Fiction
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The Complete Short Fiction
Oscar Wilde
£8.99
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The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales
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The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales
£14.99
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