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Best British Short Stories 2022

by Nicholas Royle, RZ Baschir, Seán Padraic Birnie, Christopher Burns, Neil Campbell, Leon Craig, Mona Dash, David Frankel, Uschi Gatward, Rosanna Hildyard, Edward Hogan, Alice M, Paul McQuade, Sophie Mackintosh, Sonya Moor, Ben Pester, Max Porter, Sara Sherwood, Chris Vaughan, Tony White, Will Wiles ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth 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

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth 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
Parallel Hells

by Leon Craig ...

For fans of Daisy Johnson and Kirsty Logan, a gothic short story collection for winter nights from an emerging voice in British literary fiction'The short twisted tales . . . have a laconic elegance that's both chilling and pleasurable' Financial Times'Trust me: you want to read this. It's the queer horror book of your dreams' Kirsty LoganIrresistibly strange and inventive, Parallel Hel... ... Read more

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For fans of Daisy Johnson and Kirsty Logan, a gothic short story collection for winter nights from an emerging voice in British literary fiction'The short twisted tales . . . have a laconic elegance that's both chilling and pleasurable' Financial Times'Trust me: you want to read this. It's the queer horror book of your dreams' Kirsty LoganIrresistibly strange and inventive, Parallel Hel...
... Read more

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The Decadence

An unnerving novel of summer debauchery

by Leon Craig ...

'A triumph of the queer gothic'Jane Flett, author of Freakslaw'Seductive and surprising at every turn'Caitlin Blackwell Baines, author of How to Build a Haunted House'Lush, sinister and blackly funny'Kate Collins, author of A Good House for ChildrenAt the height of lockdown, six friends make an illicit break for fre... ... Read more

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'A triumph of the queer gothic'Jane Flett, author of Freakslaw'Seductive and surprising at every turn'Caitlin Blackwell Baines, author of How to Build a Haunted House'Lush, sinister and blackly funny'Kate Collins, author of A Good House for ChildrenAt the height of lockdown, six friends make an illicit break for fre...
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Souls with Longing

Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare

by Dustin A. Gish, John Briggs, Leon Craig, Scott Crider, Carson Holloway, David Lowenthal, Glenn Arbery, Carol McNamara, John E. Alvis, George Anastaplo0, Paul Cantor1, Laurence D. Nee2 ...

The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors ... Read more

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The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors
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The West at War

by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Robert Alt, Alberto R. Coll, Barry Cooper, David D. Corey, Leon Craig, James Kurth, Paul Marshall, David Tucker, Bradley C. S. Watson, Kenneth R. Weinstein1 ...

In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time-the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the ... Read more

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In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time-the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the
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Parallel Hells

by Leon Craig ...

Narrated by Glen McCready, Sarah Durham, Sofia Zervudachi ...

Unabridged

6 hours 12 min

In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human.Some say that hell is other people and some say hell is loneliness . . .In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far ... Read more

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In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human.Some say that hell is other people and some say hell is loneliness . . .In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far
... Read more

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The Decadence

An unnerving novel of summer debauchery

by Leon Craig ...

Narrated by Sofia Zervudachi ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

'Lush, complex, and close to the bone, The Decadence filled me with horror in the best way'Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds'A genuinely creepy and evocative contemporary ghost story . . . this novel intrigues and unsettles**'**Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'An exquisitely claustrophobic exploration of the places we do and don't belong... ... Read more

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'Lush, complex, and close to the bone, The Decadence filled me with horror in the best way'Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds'A genuinely creepy and evocative contemporary ghost story . . . this novel intrigues and unsettles**'**Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti'An exquisitely claustrophobic exploration of the places we do and don't belong...
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The Haunting of Tram Car 015

by P. Djèlí Clark ...

Narrated by Julian Thomas ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

P. Djèlí Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of "A Dead Djinn in Cairo," with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015**.**Finalist for the 2020 Hugo AwardFinalist for the 2020 Nebula AwardFinalist for the 2020 Locus AwardCairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and S... ... Read more

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P. Djèlí Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of "A Dead Djinn in Cairo," with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015**.**Finalist for the 2020 Hugo AwardFinalist for the 2020 Nebula AwardFinalist for the 2020 Locus AwardCairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and S...
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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

by Grady Hendrix ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have ... Read more

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Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have
... Read more

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Harrow the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir ...

Narrated by Moira Quirk ...

Series series Locked Tomb
Unabridged

19 hours 51 min

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today bestselling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns agalaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor’s hauntedspace station.Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight anunwinnable war. Side by side with a detested rival, Harrow must ... Read more

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Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today bestselling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns agalaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor’s hauntedspace station.Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight anunwinnable war. Side by side with a detested rival, Harrow must
... Read more

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Best British Short Stories 2019

by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, Elizabeth Baines, Naomi Booth, Ruby Cowling, Kieran Devaney, Vicky Grut, Nigel Humphreys, Sally Jubb, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Paul McQuade, Vesna Main, Robert Mason, Ann Quin, Stephen Sharp, Sam Thompson, Melissa Wan, Ren Watson, Adam Welch ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new 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 anthologies, ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new 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 anthologies,
... Read more
Cold Grey Stones

by Tanith Lee ...

A unique collection of eleven stories from Britain's foremost Mistress of the Fantastic; all are previously uncollected, two have never appeared in print before and five stories are wholly original to this collection."Tanith Lee's mastery of voice and the constant originality of her writing never fail to intrigue, unsettle, and ultimately delight." – Liz Williams, Author of the Inspector Chen ... Read more

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A unique collection of eleven stories from Britain's foremost Mistress of the Fantastic; all are previously uncollected, two have never appeared in print before and five stories are wholly original to this collection."Tanith Lee's mastery of voice and the constant originality of her writing never fail to intrigue, unsettle, and ultimately delight." – Liz Williams, Author of the Inspector Chen
... Read more

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