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From the New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping in the Ground comes this brilliantly nuanced short story collection of twenty stories—most never before published in the US, and one of them an Edgar winner—which also features three Inspector Banks tales. Peter Robinson pens thrilling...

The award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Inspector Alan Banks novels, Peter Robinson dazzles with his first collection of short fiction, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Marked by the piercing psychological insight, brilliant characterization, and riveting suspense that are...

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories. Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women, and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he...

Traplines is extraordinary fiction that presents the menacing underside of family life. In crackling prose, Eden Robinson describes homes ruled by bullies, psychopaths, and delinquents; families whose conflict resolution techniques range from grand theft to homicide; and kids who just can't get a break.

When the writer, Harry Street (Peck) is gravely wounded in a hunting accident in Africa, he feverishly recalls his failures in love and in writing. He reflects on his loss of his one true love, Cynthia Green (Gardner), due to his obsession for roaming the world in search of stories for his novels. Although she is dead, Cynthia continues to haunt Harry’s thoughts. Street feels he has compromised his talent to ensure the success of his books, and feels he is a failure, despite his achievement of having one successful novel after another.

Full of amusement, this series of fictional tales starts with a Galwayman’s arrival in Tipperary’s post-famine days and portrays the daily lives of a hillside community.

This series of tales was compiled during the recent pandemic lockdown and they include colourful incidents in the lives of bonesetters, matchmakers, youthful lovers, newcomers from beyond the mountains, a reformed villain’s wedding, celebrated by the whole community for days thereafter, and lots more.

In this volume your flesh may creep and crawl a little bit as our classic authors delve into the world of vampires. Some stories you may be familiar with but for most these will be new and unsettling experiences.

One for the Trouble: Book Slam, Volume One is the first release from the UK’s premier literary event. Eighteen Book Slam alumni, from household names like Irvine Welsh and William Boyd to newcomers like Kate Tempest and Sophie Woolley, were approached to take a song title for inspiration for a new short story or poem. Some took this literally (Jon McGregor’s moving reimagining of A House’s 'Endless Art', for example); others suggestively....

Sur un bord de mer, où les toits des maisons sont le terrain de chant des goélands, avec les vents marins comme complices, Kino, bébé Goéland, va vivre une aventure-road-trip à pattes – à travers un jardin. Kino ne sait pas encore voler, c'est comme ça qu'il va d'abord apprendre à faire miaou ! Il doit échapper au vilain voisin monsieur Orbide, qui en veut aux goélands.

Die amerikanische Familie Otis erwirbt Schloss Canterville, obwohl es in dem alten Gemäuer spuken soll. Als moderne, aufgeklärte Amerikaner schenken sie den Gespenstergeschichten jedoch keinen Glauben. Für den alten Schlossgeist brechen harte Zeiten an, denn eine solche Respektlosigkeit hat er in all den Jahrhunderten noch nicht erlebt. Weder lautes Kettenrasseln noch der immer wiederkehrende Blutfleck beeindrucken die Familie - im Gegenteil! Besonders die frechen Zwillinge setzen dem Geist mit ihren Streichen ordentlich zu. Bis sich Tochter Virginia des traurigen Gespensts erbarmt.