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Ten irreverent stories rooted in the complexity of Jewish history and the customs of orthodox life.

The skewed world of George Saunders is a strangely wonderful place, an alternative but frighteningly feasible universe in which advertising and wonky syntax have smothered the life out of normal discourse and free will.

Saadi's collection covers everything from Glaswegian Asian gangsta stories to themes drawn from various trans-Mediterranean cultures

After the frenzied intensity of his last book, Mailman , Lennon presents us with one hundred very short, beautifully crafted vignettes that aptly capture the oddness of everyday life.

This collection of stories reads like a novel following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.

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

Paley's 'tragi-comic stories resound with the cadences of the city where she was raised [New York] and are carried by the spoken word.(The Oxford Companion to English Literature.)

Solomon’s absurd scenarios reveal the even more ridiculous habits and behaviours which are hidden beneath our everyday lives.

Mining the themes of teenage sex, drugs, violence and music, Denezkhina tells it like it is for Russia's new generation

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.

This is award-winning Rogers' first short story collection, and each of the twenty tales is an absorbing little novel in miniature.

Decapolis brings together ten writers from across Europe, who have each written snapshots of life in their cities.

This collection is the first to bring together all Stevenson's shorter Pacific fiction in one volume.

This is an extraordinary book of short stories, surprising, breathtaking and beautiful by turn.

This is a short story collection not short on ideas. It’s one huge book of great, exciting stories which will become a uniting force for readers of all forms of imaginative fiction.

13 short stories by the author of Old Goriot.

Prowling through every story, these enigmatic creatures expose the hidden fears and passions of the female heart, and illuminate the deep truths about men and love.

the stories of Shaena Lambert are about malevolent pubescent sexuality; tough women; and adolescent boys boasting about their knowledge of female anatomy.

A collection of stories about an Irish student and ne'er do well called Belacqua. His adventures and amours are played out on the streets of 1920s Dublin.

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

Miranda July’s debut collection is an engaging mix of the heartfelt and self-aware, with some very funny moments and sharp observations.

Whether it is in the kitchen or elsewhere, Indian women's stories have been handed down from generation to generation, enriched and embroidered along the way.

From animal fables to mysterious forces in the landscape, McCall Smith's stories are adaptations of tales that have been handed down by generations of Ndebele people from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.

Kipling's early tales of the Raj were collected in this volume, his first published book, in 1888.

David Eagleman’s thought-provoking, funny and frequently touching fiction uses sciencific thought to underpin something we as humans cannot ever comprehend.

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

Mark Tully has woven together a series of stories set in Uttar Pradesh.

The decadent 1920s and 1930s in New York were a time of great experiment and daring for women. For the rich, life seemed a continual party, but the excesses took their emotional toll.

Bezmozgis came to Canada from Latvia as a boy with his family; he writes with clarity, compassion and humour about the pains and joys of the immigrant life.

Debut collection from an American writer, which the New York Times described as 'Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro country'.

Wonderful collection of stories full of the joys and horrors of childhood from some of the best writers in contemporary fiction.

Wigfall moves between territories effortlessly, creating her worlds with a wonderful economy, the perfectly weighted use of details and voice.

This collection brings together authors of different generations (some of which were proscribed by the government), styles and backgrounds.

The stories in this collection explore the multifaceted lives of women.

Powers' greatest subject, and one that he made his own was the lives of priests in Chicago and the Midwest.

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

The author of the prizewinning Deafening returns with a poignant and compelling novel in ten stories.

A spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life.

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

Ozick writes about bitterness, cruelty and compulsion with brutal acuity and tenderness.

'How many people get to hear what their friends think about them?' Gerard Donovan asked an audience at the 2008 Edinburgh international book festival. It is an excrutiating thought, and one that comes true for Jim, a character in the first story from Donovan's collection Country of the Grand.

Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved.

Three Gothic tales from the author of Frankenstein.

This short, pocket-sized volume brings together the stories shortlisted for the inaugural 2006 National Short Story Prize, the largest award in the world for a single short story.

These stories trace the fragile and enduring connections between those related by blood, and those not.

Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia and the east, these stories variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure.

Stories that range from darkly fantastical and unsettling to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity.

100 short stories and extracts from novels by women - one for each century - form this anthology

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners; the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction.

Roll up for the Arabian Derby, a sinister fairground booth where children are tempted, become addicted and can never escape.