short stories
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Stalky & Co
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
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Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960
- £15.00
- Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever
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Strange Stories of the Chase: Stories of Fox Hunting & The Supernatural
- £45.00
- A collection of short mysteries from the world of hunting, compiled by the Anne Feversham, wife of Earl of Feversham, and one of the children of the Earl of Halifax. Her brother (the 2nd earl) writes the foreword.
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Table for Two (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences…
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Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
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Tales of Unrest
- £12.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
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Tea-Table Talk
- £25.00
- "Tea-table Talk" is an imaginary conversation between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. With 15 b/w…
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Tell Tale (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy…
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The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
- £25.00
- In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking…
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A brilliant Ð and rather transgressive Ð collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story ÔThe School of EnglishÕ. Hilary Mantel is one of BritainÕs most accomplished and acclaimed writers.…
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The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard
- £35.00
- Foreword by Hammond Innes whose own literary career was inspired by Haggard. There were three main themes in Haggard's life: Africa, Ancient Egypt and rural England and among his shorter works are some outstanding tales.
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The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh (vol IX of XIII)
- £10.00
- Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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The Club of Queer Trades
- £25.00
- The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The…
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Stalky & Co
- £10.00
- Macmillan Pocket Kipling: Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. It was first published in 1899 (following serialisation in the Windsor…
- Add to basket
-
Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960
- £15.00
- Third anthology of New Yorker short stories; includes writers such as John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Roger La Farge, Roald Dahl, Penelope Mortimer, Dorothy Parker, Prawer Jhabvala, Nadine Gordimer, John Cheever
- Add to basket
-
Strange Stories of the Chase: Stories of Fox Hunting & The Supernatural
- £45.00
- A collection of short mysteries from the world of hunting, compiled by the Anne Feversham, wife of Earl of Feversham, and one of the children of the Earl of Halifax. Her brother (the 2nd earl) writes the foreword.
- Add to basket
-
Table for Two (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences…
- Add to basket
-
Tales of the Early World
- £40.00
- In this collection of tales from Ted Hughes, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. Beautifully illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
- Add to basket
-
Tales of Unrest
- £12.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
- Add to basket
-
Tales of Unrest, and Typhoon
- £25.00
- Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon
- Add to basket
-
Tea-Table Talk
- £25.00
- "Tea-table Talk" is an imaginary conversation between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor Poet wax lyrical on subjects like marriage, art, society and politics. With 15 b/w…
- Add to basket
-
Tell Tale (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy…
- Add to basket
-
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
- £25.00
- In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung's totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking…
- Add to basket
-
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A brilliant Ð and rather transgressive Ð collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story ÔThe School of EnglishÕ. Hilary Mantel is one of BritainÕs most accomplished and acclaimed writers.…
- Add to basket
-
The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard
- £35.00
- Foreword by Hammond Innes whose own literary career was inspired by Haggard. There were three main themes in Haggard's life: Africa, Ancient Egypt and rural England and among his shorter works are some outstanding tales.
- Add to basket
-
The Christmas Books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh (vol IX of XIII)
- £10.00
- Michael Angelo Titmarsh was one of Thackeray's several pseudonyms early on in his career. He was a trenchant critic and satirist of the absurdities and hypocrisies of high society. The 5 Christmas books were combined and not revealed to be Thackeray's until after his death in 1863.
- Add to basket
-
The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
- Add to basket
-
The Club of Queer Trades
- £25.00
- The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The…
- Add to basket