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  • Best British Short Stories 2026

    by E. Abdeni-Holman, Jenn Ashworth, Lee Ashworth, David Bevan, Graham Greene, Vicky Grut, Livi Michael, Graham Mort, Annemarie Neary, Yoel Noorali, Richard Phoenix, Ray Robinson, David Rudkin, Sara Sherwood, Karen Stevens, Lucy Thynne, Charlotte Tierney, Tom Vowler, Will Wiles, Kieran Wyatt ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    Ranging across genre, theme and style, Best British Short Stories 2026 presents a dazzling array of talent – from established names to emerging voices – as published in literary magazines, anthologies, collections, and online publications during the previous calendar year. Among this year's selection is a genuine literary discovery: a story by Graham Greene, 'Reading at Night', unpublished until ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Experiencing Ways Through Words

    On Our Relationships with Language (and so Literature)

    by Emily Abdeni-Holman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    We tend to think of ourselves using language. What if we thought instead about language working on us, or about language as something we experience rather than make use of? This book explores the generative capacities of language, suggesting that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities, and political and moral implications, of more intangible aspects of language: ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • BBC National Short Story Award 2025

    by Edward Hogan, Emily Abdeni-Holman, Caoilinn Hughes, Colwill Brown, Andrew Miller ...
    AboutA couple recovering from a car accident struggle to learn how to live together in the country of their birth...An outsider looking for an apartment in an authentic part of Jerusalem finds the bareness of a new flat suddenly overwhelming...A Parks and Gardens employee adapts to the unwanted company of a teenage temp worker, while grappling with her own private failings...The stories ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    by Christos Tsiolkas ...
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  • The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women

    Volume Two

    Edited by Catherine Weate ...
    Monologues are an essential part of every actor’s toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the bestselling first volume (2008), this book showcases selected monologues from some of the finest modern plays by some of today’s leading contemporary ... Read more

    $20.19 CAD

  • Villager

    by Tom Cox ...
    Villages are full of tales: some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore. But the fortunes of one West Country village are watched over and irreversibly etched into history as an omniscient, somewhat crabby, presence keeps track of village life.In the late sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill and writes a set of haunting folk songs that will earn him a cult ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Bleaker House

    Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

    by Nell Stevens ...
    On a frozen island in the Falklands, with only penguins for company, a young would-be writer struggles to craft a debut novel...and instead writes a funny, clever, moving memoir that heralds the arrival of a fresh new literary talent.Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but somehow life kept getting in the way. Then came an irresistible opportunity: she won a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Boy Who Made it Rain

    by Brian Conaghan ...
    For age 16+. "innovative and insightful... couldn’t wait to devour part two" - Times Educational Supplement "I was utterly flabbergasted... one of the most compelling novels I've ever read" - Heffers Review, Cambridge "Brilliant writing, brilliant structure, brilliant book" - Des Dillon, author of Me and Ma Gal "definitely up there with the modern classics" - What? Magazine" A Must-Read for Teens ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cat's Tale

    by Clare Graham ...
    The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong. ... Read more

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  • Bad Archive

    by Flora Feltham ...
    Bold, beautiful and constantly surprising essays about life, loss, joy and the fabric of memory. In this deftly woven work Flora Feltham explores the corners where her memories are stashed: the archive vault, her mother' s house, a marriage counsellor' s office, the tip and New World. She takes us on a frenzied bender in Croatia, learns tapestry and meets romance novelists, all while wondering how ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2017

    by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown, Krishan Coupland, Claire Dean, Niven Govinden, Françoise Harvey, Andrew Michael Hurley, Daisy Johnson, James Kelman, Giselle Leeb, Vesna Main, Courttia Newland, Eliot North, Irenosen Okojie, Laura Pocock, David Rose, Deirdre Shanahan, Sophie Wellstood, Lara Williams, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multitudes

    AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

    by Lucy Caldwell ...
    'A lively, humane book, gritty but wholehearted.' Colin Barrett, Irish Times'One of the finest short-story writers at work today.' Wendy Erskine'Exhilarating.' Sunday Times'Brilliant.' Sunday Business PostFrom Belfast to London and back again, the eleven stories in Lucy Caldwell's acclaimed first collection chronicle the heartache, joy, and tenderness of growing up.With lives caught in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD