General Fiction

In this collection of classic fairy tales, Philip Pullman chooses his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling. He brings the heart of each timeless tale to the fore, following with a brief commentary on the story's background and history.

A collection of iconic stories for all ages featuring Marvel's premier team of starbound heroes - Guardians of the Galaxy! They're the rag-tag band of adventurers tasked with protecting the entire Marvel-Verse. They're the Guardians of the Galaxy - and they put the far-out into outer space! When ...

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains...

A story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South...

It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home...

Alka Josh's 'The Henna Artist', set in post-Raj 1950s Jaipur, is about a young woman struggling to shape her own destiny in a world pivoting between the traditional and the modern.

In a series of flashbulb-bright stories of young Chinese people as immigrants, as individuals, and as sons and daughters looking to define themselves outside of the experiences of their elders, Xuan Juliana Wang's writing limns many identities: in one, a young artist becomes the unlikely star of ...

Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missio...

That's the beauty of stories; you never know where they will take you. The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. The...

Bristol in the 1840s sees Hope working as a nurse in the midst of the cholera epidemic, battling to save lives. But Hope has always battled for life - at the moment of her birth, she was feared dead and only the close attention of her sister, Nell, spared her from burial.