Anthologies & Short Stories

Jaya: A Retelling of the Mahabharata has the whole epic, which was originally known as Jaya, condensed into a tiny capsule in this book....

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations....

Meri Priya Kahaniyaan contains the favourite stories by the fierce and celebrated poet Amrita Pritam, selected by her. Amrita Pritam, the first female Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading voice of 20th-century Indian literature, was awarded Jnanpith in 1982....

Malgudi Ki Kahaniyan (Hindi) is a set of stories that are based in the fictional town of Malgudi. The town of Malgudi is a South Indian village created by the author and offers a valuable peek into the quality of rural life during the pre-independence era....

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

Bees saal ki umr paar karte hee Rusty Dehra chodhkar London chala jata hai. Uske mann mein sapna hai vahan jaakar ek lekhak banne ka. Din mein vah clerk ki naukari karta hai aur der raat jaagkar likhta hai. Tees saal vahan bitaane ke baavjood Rusty ko London ras nahin aata....

Skilfully translated into English for the very first time, these chilling tales from master storyteller Ratnakar Matkari are bound to keep listeners of all ages up at night. With every minute you listen, you'll be looking over your shoulder to make sure no one's there....

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for 10 whole and very bloody years.... 

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy....

The first of Maurice Leblanc's collections about his devilish, debonair rogue, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar presents eight dazzling short stories that display some of Lupin's greatest thefts and escapes.... 

Hum Fida-e-Lucknow is an anthology of stories written by Amritlal Nagar where he weaves fictional narratives around the many colourful characters that one could easily find in the city of Lucknow....

On the Shortness of Life was written by Seneca around AD 49. He argues that we waste so much time because we do not properly value it. We expend great effort in protecting other valuables such as money and property, but we allow others to occupy it and take time away from us....

The job should have been easy. Get in. Assess the situation. Get out. But for veteran tracker Quentin Rutherford, things get sticky when the girl he’s loved since puberty shows up, conducting her own investigation into the strange occurrences of the small, New Mexico town. He knew it would be a risk coming back to the area, but he had no idea Amber Kowalski had become a bona fide PI, investigating things that go bump in the night. 

"Det har altid været min drøm at rejse med let bagage, en lille taske, som man nonchalant svinger med i hånden, mens man går med raske, men ikke forhastede skridt gennem for eksempel en lufthavnshal, passerer en masse nervøse mennesker, som slæber på tunge rejsetasker - nu, for første gang, lykkedes det mig at tage det absolut minimale med, jeg havde ikke tøvet over for familieklenodierne og disse elskelige småting, som minder en om... ja, om emotionelle bidder af ens liv - nej, det mindst af alt! Tasken blev lige så let som mit letsindige hjerte..."

Storie viste dal marciapiede, dal basso di chi nei luoghi sta. Cartoline, brevi lettere, trenta racconti scritti come si fa quando si parte per davvero e si racconta una storia a qualcuno che si ama. Con lo stesso titolo era già uscito un altro racconto di Erri De Luca, alla fine degli anni Novanta. In quell'edizione c'erano le storie dei suoi viaggi nella Bosnia in guerra, nel pieno della Guerra civile jugoslava. In questo altro Pianoterra quelle storie non ci sono quasi più. Resta però identica la prospettiva di chi guarda. Perché questo audiolibro è un "atto di residenza".

Narra la historia en el que el protagonista, por un lado, va a tener la curiosidad por saber qué hay más allá, pero por otro lado siente que la información obtenida se le escapa de las manos con la conclusión de que no quisiera jamás haberse adentrado en lo desconocido.

Destinies can’t be ignored. No one knows that better than Annita. For as long as she can remember, it's been foretold she would find a dragon. A real-life dragon. She’s beginning to think it was all some kind of mistake until she’s swimming in one of the many caves around the island and discovers none other than a dragon. There is no fear as she approaches, utterly transfixed at the sight of the creature. Then he shifts into the shape of a thoroughly gorgeous man who spears her with bright blue eyes.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection, The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.