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When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds...

A fleeting affair lingers in the memory of a woman. Thirty years after the event, when both husband and lover have died, she remembers one further detail. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story...

Alfrida, for so long an admired, urbane exponent of big-city living to her young rurally isolated niece, has lost some of her gloss by the time she accepts a university place in the same city as her aunt....

A reluctant decision is made to put Fiona in a home catering for those suffering from Alzheimer's. When her husband, Grant, comes to see her, he is confused and dismayed to learn that she has struck up...

When her sick husband carries out a long-agreed-upon plan in her absence, Nina is unable to deny shock and grief from taking hold. This story recounts the married life of the couple, the aftermath of...

When two teenage girls fabricate one end of a correspondence, they leave a lonely, unprepossessing housemaid with some sadly misguided ideas. The prank upsets several lives, even if all the pieces don't...

Childhood friends, whose affectionate relationship suffered an abrupt disruption, are reunited unexpectedly in the home of a mutual acquaintance. Both bear the marks of life's disappointments as they...

A consultation with an oncologist disrupts Jinny's resolutions and resignations, and she must confront issues she'd hitherto been content to let lie. Leaving her husband to his distractions, she allows...

In this collection, Alice Munro captures the lives of ordinary women; their passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface.‘One of the finest short-story writers of our time...absorbing and...

In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface.‘No one could possibly dispute Munro's greatness’ Daily MailThe past, as Alice...

Discover Alice Munro’s first mesmerising and atmospheric short story collection.‘A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity... A major talent is at work here’ Los Angeles TimesAlice...

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.**WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JONATHAN FRANZEN**Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances,...

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written.‘Munro can pack more into one of her stories - more...

Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past.‘One of my very favourite writers’ Claire TomalinFrom her ancestors' view...

These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them.‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich social detail’ Sunday TimesA wife and mother whose...

« Sur le quai de la gare, un chat noir croise obliquement leur chemin. Elle déteste les chats. Plus encore les chats noirs. Mais elle ne dit rien et réprime un frisson. Comme pour récompenser cette retenue,...

Vieux couple à la retraite, ils croyaient ne plus avoir grand-chose à vivre en attendant la mort. Mais leur quotidien se trouve brutalement bouleversé par l'irruption d'une figure du passé. Cette vendeuse...

La Danse des ombres est le tout premier recueil de nouvelles de l’écrivaine canadienne Alice Munro, nobélisée en 2013. À la lecture de cette œuvre publiée en 1968, on reconnait les grands thèmes qui...

"Sur le quai de la gare, un chat noir croise obliquement leur chemin. Elle déteste les chats. Plus encore les chats noirs. Mais elle ne dit rien et réprime un frisson. Comme pour récompenser cette retenue,...

De quoi parlent les histoires d'Alice Munro ? De baisers donnés. De meubles encombrants dont on ne parvient pas à se séparer. De trahisons nécessaires. De mots d'adieu. De femmes déchirées entre...

Alice Munro décrypte les sentiments puissants et égoïstes qui animent Joyce, une jeune violoncelliste belle et brillante, blessée, quittée par son mari pour une femme vulgaire et fruste dont la fille...

Dans ce recueil de treize nouvelles, Alice Munro nous emporte avec ses personnages jusqu'aux moments charnières de leurs existences, où tout peut basculer : une mère perd la trace de son enfant, un soldat...

« Sur le quai de la gare, un chat noir croise obliquement leur chemin. Elle déteste les chats. Plus encore les chats noirs. Mais elle ne dit rien et réprime un frisson. Comme pour récompenser cette retenue,...

In den dreizehn Erzählungen ihres zweiten Erzählbandes Was ich dir schon immer sagen wollte von 1974, der jetzt erstmals auf Deutsch erscheint, stellt Alice Munro ihre präzise Beobachtungsgabe und den...

"Ich denke vor allem an die Kanadierin Alice Munro, mit der es auf diesem Planeten allenfalls eine Handvoll Schriftsteller aufnehmen kann. Ich meine, sie hat im Bereich der Kurzgeschichte Tschechow übertroffen,...

THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys,...

Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection.‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and unpredictability...an unrivalled chronicler of human nature...

Discover Alice Munro’s remarkable early stories.‘Alice Munro’s stories are miraculous’ Sunday TimesThe sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope...

'Superb' Independent'Exact and unflinching' GuardianCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more.More...

Lorna finds herself strangely attracted to Lionel, a former maths prodigy and student of her husband's. When family affairs call him away and his absence coincides with the unwelcome visit of her cousin,...

In the skeletal remains of a world choked by dust and haunted by the ghosts of a fallen civilization, knowledge is a dangerous currency, and survival a brutal daily grind. Sloan, a hardened archivist...

Decades after a devastating AI uprising turned Chicago into a hazardous wasteland of crumbling skyscrapers and electromagnetic storms, Tatiana Reyes carries the ghost of her daughter like a lead weight....

Land Banking is hurting the possibilities for ending homelessness and is rarely talked about.  This book brings new light on the subject and gives practical solutions.  Cities everywhere should look around...

Science Fiction Romance Short Story. 2,300 words.Weary of being away from his home world, an alien researcher suddenly meets a determined runaway bride.I loved this! I could feel Vantos' loneliness. A...

They got the house.They didn't ask why it was so cheap.They should have.When Frank, Shelley, and their two young children move into their new home, they think they've found a fresh start. But there's...

He didn't choose the prophecy. But it chose him.Jake Thompson is a disgraced ex-pilot trying to disappear—until a dying man hands him a pendant and whispers a name long lost to legend. Suddenly, Jake...

--Recipient of the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize Readers' Favourite English Book--Snow falls over Singapore for exactly four minutes and twenty-six seconds, quietly interrupting the lives of a dozen...

Meet Rocky and Charlie, two playful pups who turn every day into an adventure! From rainy day chases to muddy mishaps, beachside fun to unexpected vet visits, these inseparable best friends always find...

Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

‘No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858-1865): “their puir wee braines couldnae cope...

Read horror stories that are short but still pack a punchHave you ever read horror stories that are 1,000 words long? In Flashes of Fright: Volume II, you'll find thirteen tales of terror, each with a...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

A Machine for Hugs is a collection of tales embracing the everyday strangeness of being alive. These stories explore forgotten avenues and dark corners too weird to ignore. A lone gravedigger's life...

Little girls and their dragons. Ever wonder how your favorite Reverse Harem started? Wanting nothing more but to meet the dragon in the cave, Risa will stop at nothing. Even if that means endearing, it's...

At United Middle School, mysteries aren't just an occasional problem—they're an everyday disaster. When Jake, Emily, Amy, and Max—the school's unofficial mystery squad—team up to solve a string of bizarre...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

After studying the Moon card, Madeline blesses Alice and Eliot's upcoming marriage.

Welcome to a world of wisdom, tradition, and life lessons, told through the vibrant voice of the Ndebele people. This book is a collection of 25 Ndebele proverbs—each one a piece of ancient knowledge...

An anonymous tip leads detectives to the bodies of a dozen women in the cellar of an abandoned cabin. The cellar also contains the body of a man killed within the previous thirty-six hours. Who killed...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve...

Five years after the "Silencing" virus decimated the world, hope flickers in the ruins. Dr. Paulina Rivera, haunted by her past failures, clutches the last chance for humanity's survival: data drives...