Item category 1: Short Stories

The stories in this collection from Orange-Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie straddle the cultures of Nigeria and the West. Her characters battle with the responsibilities of modern life, a world in which identity is too often compromised.

I am woman, hear me roar. Have you ever imagined a different life? Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided? Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar? The women in these startlingly-original stories are all of us: the women who befriend us, the women who encourage us, the women wh...

One woman is tortured by sinister bite marks that appear on her skin; another is swallowed up by the floor during a mortifying presentation; yet another resolves to return and exchange her boring husband at the store where she originally acquired him. The women at the center of this curious unive...

A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar. 'The Last Dream' brings together twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar's personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day.

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H.H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Archer presents this sixth collection of stories.

The 14 stories in 'To Cut a Long Story Short' follow in the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's storytelling, with a variety of characters, subjects and settings, but all with a twist in the tail.

A collection of 12 captivating short stories. From Cambridge to New York, Hertfordshire to Istanbul, Jeffrey Archer explores what happens when people are put under pressure: how they will react when they have an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, a danger to avoid? But expect the u...