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All the Days and Nights
by William MaxwellPublished: 03/09/2012
Spanning more than 50 years, the stories in this collection encompass the life's work of one of America's best-loved and most acclaimed writers.
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Stay Awake
by Dan ChaonPublished: 15/03/2012
National Book Award finalist; Author of Await Your Reply
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The Undercover Cook
by Katie FfordePublished: 02/02/2012
A young journalist and her top-secret assignment. An exclusive straight to digital short story from the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.
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Raven Feeder (Storycuts)
by M C ScottPublished: 17/11/2011
An exclusive short story: an alternate history of the defeat of Olaf Trygvason, King of Norway, who forcefully implemented the Christian conversion of Orkney and Norway.
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Grave Gold/Dream Walker/Pantera II (Storycuts)
by M C ScottPublished: 17/11/2011
Three short stories: the unearthing of an ancient burial site of female warriors leads to the hope that the final resting place of Boudica has been discovered; a village makes a ritualistic sacrifice to their gods as a means of ending winter and bringing about summer; and an alternate opening chapter to Rome : The Eagle of the Twelfth.
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The Last Roman in Britain (Storycuts)
by M C ScottPublished: 17/11/2011
An exclusive short story: a vision of what life would have been like if Boudica and the Celts had rid Britain of the Romans.
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Computer Seance / Fair Exchange (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Two short stories: a woman who claims to communicate with the dead makes the mistake of believing herself, and a tragic story of one life exchanged for another.
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Blood Lines (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A motive-less murder and several hit-and-runs perplex Detective Wexford.
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Burning End (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A normal family is secretly riven with cruelty and cold-heartedness.
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Clothes (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A woman obsessed with buying clothes finally recognises she needs help when they nearly strangle her.
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In All Honesty (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A woman dies suddenly after her will has been changed. Is it murder?
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The Man Who Was The God of Love (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A husband murders his wife after she finds out he's not as clever as she thought.
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The Strawberry Tree (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Years after a brother vanished with his girlfriend on holiday, his sister is visited by two people claiming to be them.
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Catamount / The Wink (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Two stories: in one nature lures and lulls an over-curious tourist and in the other a woman is cast back to a troubled childhood simply by being winked at.
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High Mysterious Union (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A simple cottage retreat is drastically altered by the weird charms of the local women.
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Myth / The Astronomical Scarf / Walter's Leg (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Three short stories: one man is obsessed by a mysterious map - and its sinister influences; an enrapturing object seems to warp the destiny of its posessors; and they say time heals all wounds - but not in this case.
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Piranha to Scurfy (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
A man's twisted obsession with reading results in a morbid blurring of fiction and fact.
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The Beach Butler / The Professional (Storycuts)
by Ruth RendellPublished: 17/11/2011
Two short stories: a dull holiday is transformed by conspiracy and lust; and a murder in a department store reveals shocking truths
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A Short History of Hairdressing (Storycuts)
by Julian BarnesPublished: 17/11/2011
Gregory ponders as he sits in the barber's chair at various stages of his life.
