The Granta Book of the African Short Story

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever...

All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the Nat...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

This anthology represents the talent and scope to be found in contemporary African writing. It contains both new and previously published stories b...

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Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Philip PullmanNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 118 x 184 x 15Cover type...

Takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siecle and Edwardian period. Includes rare finds,...

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A second volume celebrating the British short story, from P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith. Includes rare finds, stories from unusual sources that hav...

Publisher: Tippermuir Books LimitedAuthor(s): Grant McIntyreNumber of pages: 228Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 209 x 29Cover type: Paperba...

Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout history, Andrew Kahn explores the key characteristics of the short story. He shows how its...

Publishing on the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's formation, this is the first book to tell the authorized, in-depth and uncensored story of the...

A year on an Irish farm, and an intimate look at man's relationship with the cow, from domestication and worship in Ancient Egypt to the consequenc...

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This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacl...

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The new book from Barbara Demick

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Reducere. A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was kn...

Reducere. The Women Who Caught the Babies highlights important aspects of the training and work of African-American midwives and the ways in which they have ...

The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author's hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written World.

Reducere. The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the boo...

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Reducere. Saye Carrie is back with her second book. This time she brings black/African hair to the forefront. Hair has played a major role in the lives of bl...

Reducere. In this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the M...

DescriptionThe Short Story of the Bible takes the reader on a tour from Creation through Revelation. The book is a two-hour read and is purposefull...

A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving...

Reducere. DescriptionIt all started with a book Kelsey's mom read, The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony, which tells the story of his early years estab...

Reducere. DescriptionA triumph of historical detective work, Crossing the Continent is the remarkable, never-before-told story of the first black explorer an...

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

Reducere. **AMAZON TOP 5 BESTSELLER** **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** REVISED AND UPDATED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This is th...

Charles Dickens's happy childhood came to a sudden end when his father was jailed for debt. At the age of 12, young Charles was sent to work in a f...

A five-volume graded anthology of short piano pieces from the Romantic era. As well as featuring the great German composers from the period, this c...

Reducere. Volume two of the supernatural fiction of Grant AllenCanadian born, Grant Allen (1848-99) was educated in England and became a notable author of bo...

From a writer who traded her single life in the big city to marry a farmer, this is a true story of about falling in love with a man and with a dif...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

Reducere. The Ghosts of Yearning is a gothic novella partially inspired by The Sixth Sense, The Notebook, and The Turn of the Screw. It centers on the lives ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told tr...

This is a remarkable, powerful, and often unbearably funny memoir in which cleaning and getting clean intertwine as a strange and magical form of r...

A revelatory book about death and mourning by a psychotherapist faced with sudden bereavement.Publisher: Short Books LtdAuthor(s): Juliet Rosenfeld...

THE HEROES, OR GREEK FAIRY TALES FIVE STORIES: HOW PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER CAME TO SERIPHOS HOW PERSEUS VOWED A RASH VOW HOW PERSEUS SLEW THE GORGON...

Irreverent, eccentric, Max's Picnic Book is the follow up the Sunday Times Bestseller, Max's Sandwich Book. Both an ode to the art of eating outdoo...

For more than five decades Billy Graham (1918-2018) ranked as one of the most influential voices in the Christian world. Nearly 215 million people ...