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The Beautiful Indifference

by Sarah Hall

Faber

The Beautiful Indifference is a concise and intense collection of seven short stories, in which Hall does not waste a word in her exposition of female strength and sexuality. The opening story, 'Butcher's Perfume', shortlisted for the BBC National Short...

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Saints and Sinners

by Edna O'Brien

Faber

Irish author Edna O'Brien has been writing short stories for more than forty years. This collection, which has just won the Frank O'Connor International Award, demonstrates that she remains a master of the short story. Its scope, depth and the...

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Granta 116

by John Freeman (ed.)

Granta

Ten years later, where are we looking? How do we see things differently? From Ground Zero to Kampala to London to Mumbai, the echoes are still heard, the impact is still felt. The way we interact, the way we travel,...

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Malgudi Days

by R K Narayan

Here Narayan portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and endearing domestic detail. And under his magician's touch the whole imaginary city of Malgudi springs...

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How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Capuchin Classics

‘Someone once said that the definition of the highest art is that one should feel that life is this and not otherwise. I do not know of a writer living who gives that feeling with more unqualified certainty than Mrs...

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The Complete Short Stories

by Ian Rankin

Orion

This volume brings together Rankin's previous short story titles 'Beggar's Banquet' and 'A Good Hanging'; it also includes a new Inspector Rebus mystery entitled 'Atonement'.

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Collected Stories

by Ruth Rendell

Hutchinson

Well kown for her Inspector Wexford mysteries, Ruth Rendell is also a prolific short story writer. This collection brings together her three volumes Means of Evil, The Fallen Curtain and The Fever Tree.

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Jesus Out to Sea

by James Lee Burke

Orion

Eleven short stories by one of the masters of US crime fiction. Written over a 15-year period, they explore Burke's perennial themes of dignity in poverty; violence; and the beauty of the landscape.

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Collected Stories

by Saul Bellow

Penguin

Bellow died in 2005; this collection of his shorter fiction is a worthy testament to his writing, with a preface by his wife, Janis Bellow, and an introduction by James Wood.

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Selected Short Stories

by
Rabindranath Tagore

Translated by William Radice

Penguin Classics

Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism,...

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