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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

Marple: Twelve New Stories
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Marple: Twelve New Stories
Agatha Christie
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Walk the Blue Fields
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Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan
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Games and Rituals
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Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny
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Self-Portraits
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Osamu Dazai
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Mythos
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Stephen Fry
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Sinister Spring
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Sinister Spring
Agatha Christie
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Six Stories
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Six Stories
Stefan Zweig
£9.99
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A Stroke of the Pen
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A Stroke of the Pen
Terry Pratchett
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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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Grimm Tales
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Grimm Tales
Philip Pullman
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Old Babes in the Wood
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Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
£9.99
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
£9.99
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Send Nudes
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Send Nudes
Saba Sams
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After the Funeral
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After the Funeral
Tessa Hadley
£9.99   £8.49
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Life Ceremony
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Life Ceremony
Sayaka Murata
£9.99
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Greatest Hits
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Harlan Ellison
£14.99
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Table For Two
Table For Two: Signed Edition (Hardback)
Amor Towles
£18.99
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Comprising six New York-set short stories and a novella rooted in Golden Age Hollywood, this mesmerising collection from the pen of the A Gentleman in Moscow author centres on the fateful consequences of brief encounters.

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Our Best New & Coming Soon Anthologies & Short Stories

Safe Enough
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Safe Enough
Lee Child
£22.00   £18.99
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She's Always Hungry
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She's Always Hungry
Eliza Clark
£9.99
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
Kwon Youngmin
£12.99
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Zero-Sum
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Zero-Sum
Joyce Carol Oates
£9.99
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For Such a Time as This
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For Such a Time as This
Shani Akilah
£16.99
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Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
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Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good
Eley Williams
£16.99
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Ali Smith
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A View from the Stars
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A View from the Stars
Cixin Liu
£20.00
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The Hive and the Honey
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The Hive and the Honey
Paul Yoon
£14.99
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Greatest Hits
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Greatest Hits
Harlan Ellison
£14.99
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You Like It Darker
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You Like It Darker
Stephen King
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Dogs and Monsters
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Dogs and Monsters
Mark Haddon
£20.00   £16.99
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The Last Dream
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The Last Dream
Pedro Almodovar
£16.99   £14.99
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The Hotel
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The Hotel
Daisy Johnson
£14.99
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Flowers from the Void
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Flowers from the Void
Gianni Washington
£14.99
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
Mariana Enriquez
£14.99
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The Everyman Stories 

Dog Stories
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Dog Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Detective Stories
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Detective Stories
Peter Washington
£15.00
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Love Stories
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Love Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Erotic Stories
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Erotic Stories
Rowan Pelling
£15.00
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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
Peter Washington
£15.00
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Stories from the Kitchen
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Stories from the Kitchen
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Stories of Motherhood
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Stories of Motherhood
Diana Secker-Tesdell
£15.00
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Shaken and Stirred
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Shaken and Stirred
Diana Secker Tesdell
£10.99
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Stories of the Sea
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Stories of the Sea
Diana Secker-Tesdell
£12.99
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Wedding Stories
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Wedding Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£10.99
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Stories of Art & Artists
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Stories of Art & Artists
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Russian Stories
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Russian Stories
Christoph Keller
£15.00
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Cat Stories
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Cat Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
Everyman
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London Stories
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London Stories
Jerry White
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Garden Stories
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Garden Stories
Diana Secker-Tesdell
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Fishing Stories
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Fishing Stories
Henry Hughes
£12.99
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Scottish Stories
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Scottish Stories
Walter Scott
£12.99
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Our Best Classic 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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Dubliners
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Dubliners
James Joyce
£8.99
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Big Blonde
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Big Blonde
Dorothy Parker
£9.99
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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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The Complete Short Stories
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The Complete Short Stories
H. Munro
£10.99
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The Collected Dorothy Parker
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The Collected Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
£12.99
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Collected Short Stories Volume 1
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Collected Short Stories Volume 1
W. Somerset Maugham
£12.99
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The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
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The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Grace Paley
£10.99
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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories
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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories
O. Henry
£7.99
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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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Diaboliad
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Diaboliad
Mikhail Bulgakov
£9.99
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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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Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 3
Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 3 (Hardback)
Amor Towles, Otto Penzler
£20.00
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A thrilling tome of the best crime and mystery tales of the year, selected by bestselling author Amor Towles. Includes sensational short stories by Jeffery Deaver, Andrew Child and Brendan Du Bois.
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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
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Sparring Partners
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Sparring Partners
John Grisham
£9.99
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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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Bodies from the Library
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Bodies from the Library
Tony Medawar
£9.99
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Guilty Creatures
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Guilty Creatures
Martin Edwards
£9.99
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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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The Perfect Crime
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The Perfect Crime
Vaseem Khan
£20.00
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Seasonal Work
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Seasonal Work
Laura Lippman
£14.99
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A Spot of Folly
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A Spot of Folly
Ruth Rendell
£9.99
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The Jealousy Man
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The Jealousy Man
Jo Nesbo
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Dolphin Junction
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Dolphin Junction
Mick Herron
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Murder in Midsummer
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Murder in Midsummer
Cecily Gayford
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The Man in Black and Other Stories
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The Man in Black and Other Stories
Elly Griffiths
£22.00   £17.99
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Murder Takes a Holiday
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Murder Takes a Holiday
Various
£8.99
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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   £9.50
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Our Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Stories

Dark Tales
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Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
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Weird Woods
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Weird Woods
John Miller
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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
£9.99
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The Last Séance
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The Last Séance
Agatha Christie
£9.99
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The Cyberiad
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The Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem
£8.99
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Cold Hand in Mine
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Cold Hand in Mine
Robert Aickman
£9.99
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Moonrise
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Moonrise
Mike Ashley
£8.99
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We’ll Always Have Paris
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We’ll Always Have Paris
Ray Bradbury
£9.99
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The Haunting Season
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The Haunting Season
Bridget Collins
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If It Bleeds
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If It Bleeds
Stephen King
£10.99
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Reality, and Other Stories
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Reality, and Other Stories
John Lanchester
£8.99
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Parallel Hells
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Parallel Hells
Leon Craig
£14.99
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The Paper Menagerie
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The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
£9.99
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Cosmogramma
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Cosmogramma
Courttia Newland
£12.99
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Thirteen Storeys
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Thirteen Storeys
Jonathan Sims
£9.99
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Illuminations
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Illuminations
Alan Moore
£20.00
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
A Sunny Place for Shady People (Paperback)
Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell
£14.99
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Mixing the macabre with the everyday and dark magic with the all-too-real reverberations of Argentina's tumultous past, this hypnotic short fiction collection from the author of the International Booker nominated The Dangers of Smoking in Bed finds Enriquez at the height of her powers.

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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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The Complete Cosmicomics
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The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
£9.99
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Collected Stories
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Collected Stories
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
£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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Last Evenings On Earth
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Last Evenings On Earth
Roberto Bolaño
£9.99
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Land of Big Numbers
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Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen
£14.99
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A Winter Book
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A Winter Book
Tove Jansson
£9.99
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Cursed Bunny
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Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
£12.99
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After the Sun
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After the Sun
Jonas Eika
£12.99
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The Impostor
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The Impostor
Silvina Ocampo
£9.99
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Other Worlds
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Other Worlds
Robert Chandler
£10.99
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Men Without Women
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Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
£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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Things We Lost in the Fire
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Mariana Enriquez
£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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Our Best Novellas

Small Things Like These
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Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
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Giovanni's Room
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
£9.99
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The Outsider
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The Outsider
Albert Camus
£8.99
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A Month in the Country
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A Month in the Country
J L Carr
£9.99
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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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Kitchen
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
£9.99
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The Guest Cat
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The Guest Cat
Takashi Hiraide
£9.99
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Chess
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Chess
Stefan Zweig
£7.99
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A Spy In The House Of Love
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A Spy In The House Of Love
Anaïs Nin
£8.99
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Hour of the Star
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Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
£7.99
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The Driver's Seat
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The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark
£8.99
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Good Morning, Midnight
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Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys
£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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Up At The Villa
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Up At The Villa
W. Somerset Maugham
£8.99
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The Comfort of Strangers
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The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan
£9.99
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Our Best Poetry Anthologies

Penguin's Poems for Life
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Penguin's Poems for Life
Laura Barber
£10.99
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I Wanted to Quit Too
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I Wanted to Quit Too
Hussain Manawer
£16.99
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Poetry by Heart
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Poetry by Heart
Julie Blake
£12.99
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Poems for Love
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Poems for Love
Joanna Trollope
£10.99
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Minor Notes, Volume 1
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Minor Notes, Volume 1
George Moses Horton
£15.00
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Poems to Fall in Love With
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Poems to Fall in Love With
Chris Riddell
£9.99
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Poems as Friends
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Poems as Friends
Fiona Bennett
£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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365 Poems for Life
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365 Poems for Life
Allie Esiri
£22.00
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£14.99
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Harmony
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Harmony
Whitney Hanson
£16.99
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Second World War Poems
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Second World War Poems
Hugh Haughton
£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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The Poetry of Birds
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The Poetry of Birds
Samuel Carr
£14.99
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A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year
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A Poem to Read Aloud Every Day of the Year
Liz Ison
£25.00
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The Penguin Book of Elegy
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The Penguin Book of Elegy
Prof Stephen Regan
£40.00
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Classic Anthologies, Collections and Boxed Sets

Fairy Tales
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Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
£25.00
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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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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
£16.99
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The Penguin Classics Book
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The Penguin Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
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The Collected Stories
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The Collected Stories
Alexander Pushkin
£16.99
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New York Stories
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New York Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables
Agnes Miller Parker
£30.00
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Classic Dog Stories
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Classic Dog Stories
Ned Halley
£10.99
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
£16.99
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Classic Cat Stories
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Classic Cat Stories
Becky Brown
£10.99
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London Stories
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London Stories
Jerry White
£15.00
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The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
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The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
Various
£16.99
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