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This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s.

An original interpretation of the Oliver Twist story reflecting a number of critical and significant contemporary issues.

Stories revolving around the theme of birthdays collected by Murakami.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

Intense, emotional and impressive

The new graphic novelist from Hannah Berry (trivia: she is Booktrust's writer in residence) takes her love of dark humour, les bandes dessinées and noir and twists them into a boiler room of a novel

A collection of stories set in Northern Ireland about the trials of growing up in communities where tension, confusion and violence hold sway.

Loosely based on the real life case of the Kerry babies, powerful imagery and lyrical prose is woven throughout this unforgettable, outstanding and ultimately hopeful novel.

A beautifully written tale about three lonely, frustrated children who live in Whitegates children's home.

The narrator of Kamchatka looks back to a pivotal moment in his childhood in Argentina, trying to make sense of the traumatic events that tore his family apart.

Fever and Spear is the first volume in a series of 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and espionage.

The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny.

Sixteen-year-old Ethan returns to his family nine years after he was abducted from his front garden.

A powerful and chilling thriller with elements of the supernatural that will have readers gripped and enthralled from the first sentence to the very last word.

Amsterdam writes with a tenderness and ease of touch. His writing is funny and sweet and sad all at once and What the Family Needed is an endearing tale of a family learning to come together.

Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in this 79-strong collection.

This is a deftly assembled collection of short stories about the everyday flow of human lives, and unexpected moments that can shift those lives off (or back on) course.

Mark Haddon is a master of stark narrative insight layered with psychological complexity- and his latest offering doesn't disappoint.

When Simeon is taken in by the Cathedral school, we meet the sinister school Warden – Dr Dee, a real necromancer of the time, and the ghost of his collaborator Edward Kelly.

How to update Samuel Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner? By embarking on a mostly pictoral interpretation of the text and making it an allegorical treatise on environmental disaster, obviously.

Grace is desperately poor, struggling to evade the workhouse – she has also had an illegitimate child. And the sinister Unwin family are scheming to blight her life again...

These are stories of love, yearning and displacement, set in the bleak but beautiful landscape of the author's native Yorkshire.

A tense, aggressive, but moral tale of boys on the brink of adulthood

Seventeen-year-old Ellis gets more than he bargained for when he bumps into Jackie, an old school friend. Within the space of twenty-four hours, his life is turned upside down.

Set in places as diverse as Alaska and Australia, this collection include tales of murder, loss of innocence, revenge, heroism and hope.

Ivo discovers that the victim of a brutal murder was a stranger who had earlier begged him to look after a small and mysterious object for him.

Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, Helen Simpson's third collection of short stories, is about the hectic day-to-day whirlpool of women's lives- women who want to improve their lot, women who yearn to 'get a life' better than their own.

Ten startling stories from the Nobel Prize-winning Gordimer, culminating in Karma, in which a disembodied narrator returns to the earthly life five times.

All teenagers are embarrassed by their parents but Jude feels she has more reason than most to cringe when hers are around her in public.

In the title story of this collection a boy grows resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention when his father returns from the war.

Stories set in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.

A curious and magical fantasy epic which explores boundaries of all kinds between myth and reality, human and beast, the temporal and spiritual and heaven and hell.

In luminous, lyrical prose, Fletcher vividly evokes the haunting, wild landscape of the Scottish Highlands in this story ultimately concerned with the transformative power of nature, and the importance of kindness and hope.

The eleven stories collected here share the theme of love, but they are more than simple love stories.

Some tales can't help being told. And this is one of them

In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult.

Robson's stories offer up the notion that separateness exists between adults, and between children and the adult world, no matter how well one may seem to know the other. They are also very, very English.

This remarkable new version blends the finest contemporary illustration, dramatic storytelling and superb paper engineering.

The book moves along quickly, never boring, always painting an interesting picture of a family dealing with mental illness and a family dealing with the cultural differences of old and new, East and West.

A modern-day gothic horror story, which mixes the creepy with teenage experiences of love and identity.

Originally published in 1947, this collection of short stories is funny, observant and bleak.

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ...

A debut collection of eight stories about today's brand of social outcasts.

A collection of stories about food, eating and the erotic allure of recipes

The seven stories in this book are short enough to be read on the shortest of train journeys.

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will.

Seen through the eyes of Christopher, a mathematical genius and Sherlock Holmes fan, who also has Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism), the novel opens with his discovery of a murdered dog on his neighbour's lawn.

Books like this only come around rarely, and when they do, they deserve all of your attention.

As bitter as Chocolat was sweet, Five Quarters of the Orange is a tale of food and fishing, crêpes and collaboration, love and the Loire that dives into the murky waters of guilt and memory.

A much heralded, compelling sex story for teenage boys from this provocative writer