Short Stories / Angelsächsische Literatur / Britische Literatur

The Road to Madness

von H.P. Lovecraft

One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from...

Indelible Acts: Stories

von A. L. Kennedy

The love story (as well as the story of love lost, obsessed over, or longed for) gets a complete and thrilling renovation at the hands of the most virtuosic literary stylist to appear in the British Isles since...

Original Bliss

von A. L. Kennedy

"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review

A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.

Emotionally...

Mortimer of the Maghreb

von Henry Shukman

In this psychologically complex and darkly humorous debut collection, awardwinning writer Henry Shukman introduces an unforgettable cast of characters, travelers whose certain paths around the world lead invariably...

Tales of Hearsay

von Joseph Conrad

Although English was not his native tongue, Polish-born Joseph Conrad honed his language skills over his lifetime and would eventually become enshrined as one of the masters of English literature. As a sailor,...

Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories

von Hanif Kureishi

Together in one volume -- Hanif Kureishi's highly acclaimed and controversial novel, Intimacy, and, available for the first time, his latest collection of provocative short stories, Midnight All Day.

Jay, the...

The People on Privilege Hill

von Jane Gardam

A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers-a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation. This is...

Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium: Stories A Penguin eSpecial from Riverhead Books

von Nick Hornby

In these two stories from bestselling author Nick Hornby, revelations are at hand. In Not a Star, Lynn has always thought her son, Mark, was a little, well, unremarkable. Until the day a neighbor drops off a...

The Matisse Stories

von A.S. Byatt

These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about...

The World and Other Places: Stories

von Jeanette Winterson

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson's delectable first novel, announced the arrival of 'a fresh voice with a mind behind it,' as Muriel Spark has written. 'She is a master of her material, a writer...

Heavy Water: and Other Stories

von Martin Amis

"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journal

In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern...

Destiny Of Nathalie X

von William Boyd

This new collection of stories is William Boyd's second, appearing some fourteen years after his first, On the Yankee Station. Once again the stories range widely across the time and space of the twentieth century....

Cross Channel

von Julian Barnes

In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion....

Unusual Uses for Olive Oil

Professor Dr von Igelfeld #4

von Alexander Mccall Smith

Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he...

Stories

von Doris Lessing

This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English...

Bitch: One Tale from the Short Story Collection Switch Bitch (A Penguin Special)

von Roald Dahl

From Roald Dahl’s acclaimed short story collection Switch Bitch, a darkly hilarious tale of carnal lust…only for adults.

Roald Dahl’s notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius returns in this uprorious...

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Professor Dr von Igelfeld #2

von Alexander Mccall Smith & Iain Mcintosh

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment – Book 2

The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria...

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Professor Dr von Igelfeld #1

von Alexander Mccall Smith & Iain Mcintosh

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment- Book 1

The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria...

What Becomes

von A. L. Kennedy

Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of...

Cairo Stories

von Anne-Marie Drosso

Egypt is the setting for this collection, but the stories are universal –whether it’s the girl whose mother no longer recognises her, a young man who uses the changing political climate to avenge his despotic...