Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, "African Stories"--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life.
This is Doris Lessing's Africa--where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.
First published in 1965, and out of print since the 1990s, this collection contains much of Ms. Lessing's most extraordinary work. It is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of us--perceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land.
"African Stories" includes every story Doris Lessing has written about Africa: all of her first collection, "This Was the Old Chief's Country"; the four tales about Africa from "Five"; the African stories from "The Habit of Loving" and "A Man and Two Women;" and four stories featured only in this edition.
"African Stories" represents some of Doris Lessing's best work--and is an essential book by one of the twentieth century's most important authors.

A brand new bumper omnibus gathering together over 50 classic Agatha Christie stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, plus her rare Christmas Stories not available in any other volume. This new compendium of over 50 stories is the first time all the stories featuring Agatha Christie's detectives have been collected together. Here you will meet - PARKER PYNE - a consulting detective whose practice is to solve less murderous enigmas and restore happiness to his clients; HARLEY QUIN - a tall, dark, mysterious young man who takes a more surreptitious approach to solving crime; TOMMY AND TUPPENCE BERESFORD - a newly married pair of self-styled 'Young Adventurers' who are prepared to do anything in the name of justice. And in addition to presenting the complete oeuvre for these detectives, this volume includes as a bonus four rare short stories featuring that grand master of detection, Monsieur HERCULE POIROT, plus Agatha Christie's little-known Christmas stories written for children, including "Star Over Bethlehem" and "The Naughty Donkey".

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The Ladies arrive, she finds that she must appease her dead relatives. Other stories in this collection explore themes of motherhood and the fragile body, family dynamics and small town tensions, unusual traditions and metamorphosis. Dead Relatives and Other Stories is the highly anticipated, no-holds-barred short story collection from Lucie McKnight Hardy, and readers can expect more of the suspense and trepidation evident in her debut novel, Water Shall Refuse Them. Not for the faint-hearted, Dead Relatives invites you behind closed doors, and will leave you wondering if it's better that they're kept shut and firmly locked.

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves- and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives-and hers-and ours.

Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm - the man who made Richard Castle a bestseller - is back. From Tokyo to London, high-level bankers are being gruesomely murdered. The killer, Gregor Volkov, is Derrick Storm's old nemesis. Desperate to figure out who Volkov is working for, the CIA calls on the one man who can match Volkov's strength and cunning - Derrick Storm.

Met sy bundel 21 het Jan Rabie in 1956 nie net sy eie mondigwording as skrywer aangekondig nie, maar ook die nuwe koers uitgewys waarin die Sestigers die Afrikaanse letterkunde sou stuur. 21+ wat die eerste keer in 2002 verskyn het, bevat benewens die 21 gedronge kortprosas ook dertien van die oorspronklike Engelse tekste. 'n Insiggewende oopmaakwoord deur wyle André P Brink oor die ontstaan van die bundel maak van hierdie uitgawe 'n besonderse geskenk en versamelaarsitem.

Smalltown suspicion takes on the tangible shape of sin when Cain and his young sister try and keep a cat a secret. Goat Alley faces the trailer park one side and rentals on the other. Bobbi's friend is smallfry in these neighbourhood backyards where the king any particular day is the oldest kid in charge whose family doesn't rent. Rachel and Beck visit their grandfather's Nebraska farm, via Sam's Liquor Store, with picking out some souvenirs - and a little something else - on their mind. Maybe I should have forgiven him. He looked so sorry standing there with that bloody wash cloth in his hand and his touch was so soft it felt like love. But when I turned around and gingerly pulled my shirt down he said, 'Don't tell Dad.' Just because it feels like love, doesn't mean it is. Karen Gettert Shoemaker's writing is lyrical, rhythmic and weighted with fine imagery. The scales of her compassion are firmly tipped on the side of the vulnerable. Sixteen stories of rural Midwest America: smalltown secrets, the powerful silences that bind families, and seven shades of female friendship.

Twenty-six unique stories that stretch the meaning of 'eclectic', bound together in one forbidden tome for the first time. Covering most genres, and moving from grim, cruel, and tragic: broken women living on shelves in a library, a Greek goddess and the monster she created meeting in a final showdown, an alien trapped in Patagonia nurturing itself on sickness and religious gullibility to survive and an exiled Martian fixated on Dana Scully. All this, with a few devils, saints, cloned messiahs, witches, and well-educated zombies thrown in for good measure. 'Bubbles of darkness trapped in fluid humour, like hashish suspended in golden wine, a heady and often disturbing brew.' -Rhys Hughes

Hierdie vreesaanjaende bundel bevat grilverhale oor spoke, welgeeste, goelery, krapgeeste, dwaalgeeste, fortuinvertellers, stigmata, wonderwerke, sieners, seances, sangomas, tokkelosse, djins, spookligte en alles wat onverklaarbaar is. Laat gerekende spekskieters soos Kerneels Breytenbach, Henning Pieterse, Jaco Jacobs, Marion Holm en Marie Heese jou die Skrik op die Lyf jaag. Heelparty bonatuurlikwoordbegaafde bangmakers debuteer ook hier.

Pioneering Indian American writer Bharati Mukherjee is best known for her novel, Jasmine, and her breakthrough collection, The Middleman and Other Stories, which won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her writing is distinguished as much by its narrative style and shifting points of view as it is by Mukherjee's piercing emotional observations on the immigrant experience and her depiction of racism, nostalgia, and displacement. The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee is the first volume to feature the author's complete short fiction-all 35 stories. Leading Mukherjee scholar Ruth Maxey edits the collection, unearthing seven unknown stories: five in Mukherjee's unpublished 1963 Iowa Writer's Workshop M.F.A. thesis, The Shattered Mirror, and two tales from 2008. Arranged chronologically, this essential collection brings many of Mukherjee's stories back into print, from the semi-autobiographical story, "Hindus," in her 1985 debut collection, Darkness, to her late stories, published from 1997-2012, as well as her classic, "The Management of Grief." Maxey contextualizes Mukherjee's short fiction and the provocative, often prescient political questions it raises about migration, nationhood, class, and history. The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee features a Forward by prominent literary studies scholar Nalini Iyer and Afterword by critically acclaimed writer Lysley Tenorio, one of Mukherjee's former students. It is an essential volume for readers both familiar with Mukherjee's work and new to her groundbreaking fiction.

The third in a popular series, comprising seven crazy short stories. Robbie has been trapped by a witch inside a book. In order to escape, he needs to rewrite all the stories in a week...

The second volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author's death. In these twenty-three stories, Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest. Within this volume are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time. In these stories Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas that are more relevant today than ever before.

He met Liston's gaze but found it almost impossible to sustain eye contact. Soon it became an exercise in the control of fear. Sonny Liston gave Kid Dynamite the slightest hint of a smile and winked.

In the build-up to a fight, Kid Dynamite's head swirls - with thoughts of his estranged father, his difficult relationship with his stepfather, the time he met his hero, and the sense that his own life is reaching a moment of change. A masterclass in tone, atmosphere and control, 'Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine' pays testimony to Thom Jones's unique talent for the short-story form

Van 1981 tot 2014 skryf Cecile Cilliers rubrieke vir Beeld, De Kat en Sa​rie. Deur die jare het sy etlike bydraes vir verskillende bundels gemaak, maar Die ou vrou en die priester is haar eerste eie kortverhaalbundel. Verskeie klassieke temas word onder die loep geneem: dit wat in 'n huwelik ongesê bly tussen man en vrou, die verwikkelde band tussen ma en dogter, die oorweldigende blindheid van 'n eerste liefde, en bowenal die uitdagings van oud word.

Die verhale spreek tot 'n breë gehoor. Baie leesbaar, met 'n diep menslikheid wat uit die stories straal.

The famous detective returns in a thrilling anthology of 12 Sherlock short stories spanning Holmes's entire career, penned by Peter Swanson, Cara Black, James Lovegrove and more. A brand-new collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories which spans Holmes's entire career, from the early days in Baker Street to retirement on the South Downs. Penned by masters of the genre, these Sherlock stories feature a woman haunted by the ghost of a rival actress, Moriarty's son looking for revenge, Oscar Wilde's lost manuscript, a woman framing her husband for murder, Mycroft's encounter with Moriarty and Colonel Moran, and many more! Featuring stories by: Peter Swanson Cara Black James Lovegrove Andrew Lane Philip Purser-Hallard David Stuart Davies Eric Brown Amy Thomas Derrick Belanger Cavan Scott Stuart Douglas David Marcum

These tales were told by storytellers long ago, from people all over the world who emigrated to Wales. In this book you'll meet the rowdy mermaids of Cardigan Bay, the hidden lands below the sea, an ancient tree with a door into the otherworld, an old woman who makes love potions and mischief, the wise old toad who lives in a bog and knows everything, a clever girl who transforms into a swan, a green man who lives in no one's land, the enchantress who swallows a poet, a herd of fairy cattle who live beneath a lake, a boy who wears a frock to stop a castle being built, and an elephant who may or may not have died in Tregaron. These stories only come alive for a moment when a storiwr tells them. They are about transformation in ourselves and our world, our friendships and hopes, and scary sounds at night. Just ask those Welsh mountains. They have lived longer than we have. They have listened to birdsong and the sound of rivers and sea. They have heard these tales before.

I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature, and history, but also a small but exquisitely crafted group of Gothic tales, most of which first appeared in fin de siecle periodicals including the iconic Yellow Book. In these stories of obsession and possession, transgressive desire reaches out from the past - through a haunting portrait, a murdered poet's lock of hair, the uncanny voice of a diabolical castrato - dragging Lee's protagonists to their doom. Among those haunted by Lee's 'spurious ghosts' was Henry James, who praised her 'gruesome, graceful...ingenious tales, full of imagination'. This new edition includes Lee's landmark 1890 collection Hauntings complete, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena', in which Lee probes the elusive nature of the supernatural as a 'vital...fluctuating...potent' force that resists definite representation. Aaron Worth's contextual introduction, drawing upon Lee's newly published letters, reassesses her place in the pantheon of the fantastic. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Heading home to Liverpool for Christmas, Molly Mackenzie isn't just looking forward to the mulled wine and mince pies - she's got high hopes for who she'll find under the mistletoe this year! Unable to forget the delicious near miss with her brother's best friend, Jake, last New Year's Eve, Molly's got a new resolution at the top of her list: seduce Jake and get this crazy chemistry out the way before it has serious repercussions on the rest of the Mackenzie family. Only Molly has underestimated the magic of the holiday season... The more stolen moments in the snow that she shares with Jake, the more determined she is to make it a whole lot more than just a kiss before midnight. It wouldn't be Christmas without the festive warmth of a heart-meltingly romantic novella from Sophie Pembroke!