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Sub-Categories of Fiction: special features
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Tuf Voyaging
George R R Martin
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Adventure; Science fiction; Short stories
Paperback
Originally published: New York: Baen Books, 1986. [more]
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In the Gold of Time
Claudie Gallay
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
A weary young father is seduced by dark secrets from a lost world. [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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The Collected Short Stories
Jeffrey Archer
Fiction & Literature; Short stories
Paperback
A collected edition of the master storyteller's short stories [more]
$17.99 $16.20
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Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann...
Peter Wortsman
Anthologies (non-poetry); Myth & legend told as fiction; Short stories; Fiction in translation; Folklore, myths & legends
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Offers a collection of the haunting German stories from the past 200 years. This title includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait... [more]
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The Black Path: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation
Asa Larsson
Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation
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Two women follow a killer's trail into the heart of darkness - a vivid tale of suspense from one of Sweden's finest crime... [more]
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Everything is Nice: Collected Stories, Fragments and Plays
Jane Bowles
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
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Jane Bowles wrote very little: just one perfect novel, Two Serious Ladies , a play, the Summer House , and the dozen or... [more]
$22.99 $20.70
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories
Honore de Balzac
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation
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The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes,... [more]
$14.95 $13.45
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Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Published posthumously in 1869, The Spleen of Paris was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance
Trisha Telep [ed]
Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Romance; Adult & contemporary romance; Short stories
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The good news is, in the future there will be no shortage of romance. On space ships, on newly-colonized planets or on a barely... [more]
$21.95 $19.75
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The Rainbow Troops
Andrea Hirata
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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On Indonesia's Belitong Island--impoverished and tyrannized by tin-mining interests--a wily group of schoolchildren fight... [more]
$32.95 $29.65
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Elemental Magic: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters
Mercedes Lackey
Anthologies (non-poetry); Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. [more]
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Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories
Sir John Mortimer
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Humour
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Over thirty years the author wrote around eighty Rumpole stories, as well as four Rumpole novels, as the greatest of all fictional... [more]
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Sunscreen and Lipstick
Liz Byrski
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
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Stories about women in time for Christmas and the summer holidays. From the mad excitement of first love to the grief of losing... [more]
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Raised from the Ground
Jose Saramago
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, this book follows the changing fortunes... [more]
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Botchan
Natsume Soseki
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
Soseki enjoys a permanent and exalted place in Japanese literature [more]
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The Hour of the Jackal
Bernhard Jaumann
Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation
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A gripping criminal detective story, set in Namibia and introducing young detective Clemencia Garises as she confronts the... [more]
$24.99 $22.50
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A Book of Horrors
Stephen Jones
Anthologies (non-poetry); Horror & ghost stories; Short stories
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A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world's best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist.... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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Frill-necked Frenzy
Kenneth Cook
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
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What do you do if you're confronted by a kangaroo that won't give up the booze, or a pilot who faints at the sight of animals,... [more]
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Larger Than Life
Xavier Herbert
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
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A pilot dueling with an eagle; an old woman refusing to flee from bomb-ravaged Darwin; Kaijak the Songman - these are some... [more]
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The Supernatural Short Stories of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories
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Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution
Ann VanderMeer
Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories
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Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with whimsically modernised technology, this entertaining... [more]
$25.95 $23.35
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Tales of the Otherworld
Kelley Armstrong
Thriller & suspense; Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Romance; Short stories
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In this new collection of shorter fiction, some of Armstrong's most tantalizing lead characters from her Otherworld series... [more]
$15.95 $14.35
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Grantville Gazette VI
Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett
Science fiction; Short stories
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The sixth rollicking anthology of tales set in Flint's phenomenal New York Times -bestselling Ring of Fire series. A cosmic... [more]
$13.50 $12.15
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Edge of Infinity
Jonathan Strahan [ed]
Science fiction; Short stories
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One giant leap for mankind. Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another... [more]
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3 Strange Tales
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Short stories
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Akutagawa is regarded as the father of the Japanese short story and is one of the most recognizable names in Japanese literature.... [more]
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