Anthologies

Texts from Gorwelion will be made available as digital contributions to events at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP26 in Glasgow, 1-12 November 2021, representing voices from the UK and India in uniting the world to tackle...

Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction to millions of ears all over the world,...

'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN. Who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 20 specially commissioned stories about deadly books from the world's best crime writers. By turns hair-raising and playful, packed with twists and turns,...

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504080125Author Bloodhound BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Bloodhound BooksPublisher Bloodhound Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394740188Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Pantheon BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

"Charming... Four interconnected visits to a world of danger, wit, beauty and genuine romance. Treat yourself!"-ANNE PERRY, internationally bestselling authorA stellar line-up of historical mystery novelists weaves the tale of a priceless and cursed gold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910213049Author Peter KarpinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Some things which feel truly lost, are really there all along, safely hidden, just waiting to be found...France. Summer 1981: In a small village in southern France, a wilful English girl is falling in love. Frances Langley has fallen under Benoit's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617751844Author Johnny TempleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 578g

A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a frustrated housewife slashes her husband's silk pyjamas; a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals...In this collection of stories by Pakistan's finest women...

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative...

In these stories gender refuses to be fixed: a dashing travelling companion is not quite who he seems in the intimate darkness of a mail coach, a girl on the cusp of adulthood gamely takes her father's place as head of the house, and an actor and...

These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their controlled complexities of tone, both bear the unmistakable stamp of Tanizaki's hand. The Secret History of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536614Author Ron HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 1110Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm)...

'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is as stark and acidic a collection of war stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129137258Author Terry O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrilling...

Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354224Author Denise HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 291g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617754739Author Yassin AdnanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

All Over Ireland, edited by Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday, Time Present and Time Past), continues the tradition of featuring the work of both new and established writers, including Colm Toibin, Mary Morrissy and Eoin McNamee. These diverse and...

'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind the colour & fragrance of the fields, of a season...

H. P. Lovecraft's brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth-there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts. Inspired by Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the stories in Black...

A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868377Author Eva EglajaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size...

`Altogether a pleasure to read. The editors have chosen 20 stories by 20 different writers from all over Africa.' Chinua Achebe, the distinguished Nigerian writer, and C.L. Innes, a lecturer and literary critic of African and Caribbean literature, have...

Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. 'Rare and wonderful' The Times 'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions' Adam Roberts 'Fizzes with great ideas and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616962913Author Hannu RajaniemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Tachyon PublicationsPublisher Tachyon Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Locus Awards (Anthology) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780345537263Author George R. R. MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061367052Author Fred GipsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573449076Author Alison TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Cleis PressPublisher Cleis PressWeight(grams) 0g

These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury - represent...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Inspirational/Spiritual) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781936740734Author Phil CousineauFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950076154Author Jennifer EstepFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Jennifer EstepPublisher Jennifer EstepWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things...

It's never too late to chase a love you lost... It has been fifty years since Elizabeth fell in love with Tom, and just as many since she last saw him. She is still in love with him, and is sure he still loves her too, thanks to the small blue crocus...

In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer than his acclaimed novels have shown. As with all...