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  • - Faber Stories
    by Marianne Moore
    £4.49

    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
    by Claire Keegan
    £5.99

    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
    by Celia Fremlin
    £4.49

    Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____In each of these short, sharp stories, the long-neglected Celia Fremlin brings women's lives into focus - and an ordinary home becomes the setting for a return of the repressed.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    £5.99

    She was one of the fugitive bands of Cherokee who'd resisted capture long ago. Decades later, her family takes Great Mam on a road trip home, to a place now named Cherokee.

  • - Faber Stories
    by David Means
    £4.49

    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
    by Akhil Sharma
    £4.49

    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
    by Edna O'Brien
    £5.99

    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 near-fatal discomfort stand for society's larger trap.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Lorrie Moore
    £5.99

    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 goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Flannery O\'Connor
    £5.99 - 8.99

    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 and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Sally Rooney
    £5.99

    My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Milan Kundera
    £5.99

    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 son who rejects everything that is youthful in her, she has allowed herself to age almost beyond recognition. The man's assessment of her appearance is brutal.

  • - Faber Stories
    by James Joyce
    £5.99

    Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, enduring perfection'. With a new introduction by Colm Toibin.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Vikram Chandra
    £4.49

    Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure from the Mahabharata, Vikram Chandra tells a spiralling story of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
    £5.99

    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 Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Junot Diaz
    £5.99

    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
    by Adrian Tomine
    £4.49

    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
    by Anna Burns
    £5.99

    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.

  • by Thom Jones
    £4.49

    A collection of stories which encompass the brittle dreams of a teenage boxer, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, a manic-depressive adolescent's passion for the heroine of "Tom Jones", an unemployed man's experiments with mice, and a Vietnam veteran's night-time swim across the English Channel.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Sarah (Author) Hall
    £5.99

    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
    by Julia O'Faolain
    £4.49

    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 take risks for the sake of a friend?Julia O'Faolain paints a portrait of young Irish girls and their unseverable connection, showing solidarity in places politics cannot reach.

  • - Faber Stories
    by Djuna Barnes
    £4.49

    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
    by Sylvia Plath
    £5.99

    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 things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage.

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    by Petina Gappah
    £4.49

    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 them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be destroyed. Among them is Martha Mupengo.

  • - Faber Stories
    by P. D. James
    £4.49

    'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. Took her away from you some people might say. Didn't you feel any grievance?"I had been expecting this question. I knew exactly what I would say.'The late, great P. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer.

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