Ghostly Stories. Faber Stories, Paperback - Celia Fremlin

Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____In each of these short, sharp stories, the lon...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Reducere. Poor Mary. Her husband is so stingy and critical that he makes the other neighborhood spouses look princely by comparison. All of the housewives on...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Over a hundred gripping tales - of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning - reveal the darker side of genteel Edin...

Reducere. After sharing her own story in Haunted, Dorah L. Williams compiles first-hand accounts of the spiritual encounters of others. Upon writing Haunted:...

Reducere. As everyone knows, Southerners are great storytellers. Nowhere is this more evident than in Georgia, where dramatic history and larger-than-life pe...

Reducere. Enjoy this collection of Missouri's paranormal history. A young woman's fiery death leads her spirit to haunt the Missouri State University dormito...

Paperback of the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home. This book contains significant unpublished work, including a poignant m...

Reducere. Celia Ryker's Walking Home: Trail Stories is about more than mud, sweat, and blisters while thru-hiking the Long Trail. Reminiscent of Cheryl Stray...

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's nea...

Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure fro...

Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Features two classic tales about Tamworth, the kind-hearted and very wise pig with a flair for publicity, and his human friends, Thomas and Blossom...

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goe...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Reducere. Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, endur...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just tak...

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put the...

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly ...

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety o...

Deals with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children. This title contains the author's controversial story "Weddings and Be...

'I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.'When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he'...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpecte...

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel ...

Word count 9, 600Publisher: Oxford University PressNumber of pages: 80Collection: Oxford Bookworms ELTPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 148 x 198 x...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. McGahern has long been recognized...

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Ch...

Courageous dogs, cats, birds, horses, and even a bear have shown courage and devotion, and this book tells you their extraordinary stories. Include...

All Over Ireland, edited by Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday, Time Present and Time Past), continues the tradition of featuring the work of bot...

Sylvia Plath's timeless children's stories in a delightful new edition set in a clear font for younger readers, with wickedly captivating illustrat...

Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse-at the age of three. With her signature taboo-breaking humour, Silverman writes on everything from her...

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the t...

A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. . Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God an...

DescriptionBeautifully crafted, and so finely balanced that she holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters. - Eimear M...

Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Iri...

Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): John LanchesterNumber of pages: 240Public...

Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the tension between countr...

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman who escaped him 15 years earlier. trapped between her dead husband and a ...

Selfie sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a ...

Their very titles - from 'The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister' to 'Don't Pay Bad for Bad' - are evocative of a unique blend of tradi...

Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the yo...

A 3am phone call is never good news. Private investigator Roxane Weary receives a panicked call from her brother, Andrew: his one-time fling, Addis...