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 anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking...

Renowned mental health speaker, therapist, and media personality Dr. Jay Barnett unpacks the dangerous cycle of burnout and stress, providing a powerful framework to help you reclaim your energy, peace, and purpose.Have you noticed that we live in a world that worships exhaustion? Society tells us that rest is a luxury, and burnout is the price of success. Perhaps for you the source of that fatigue and weariness is work, financial pressure, racial discrimination, d...

Renowned mental health speaker, therapist, and media personality Dr. Jay Barnett unpacks the dangerous cycle of burnout and stress, providing a powerful framework to help you reclaim your energy, peace, and purpose.Have you noticed that we live in a world that worships exhaustion? Society tells us that rest is a luxury, and burnout is the price of success. Perhaps for you the source of that fatigue and weariness is work, financial pressure, racial discrimination, d...

The best of the best …This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction at its very best.Contributors include: Murray Bail, D...

122 fantastic stories from Britain's best crime writersFor ten years the Mammoth Best British Crime series has been publishing an annual volume of the most outstanding crime and mystery short fiction published in the UK. Over 400 stories by the very best writers in the field have been published. Contributors have included, among many others, Mark Billingham, Liza Cody, Roger Jon Ellory, Reginald Hill, Peter James, Simon Kernick, Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid...

Haunted by her past. In danger from her present.Isolated, alone, vulnerable.Sometimes the danger is closer than you think.As a teenager, Sarah D'Villez famously escaped a man who abducted and held her hostage for eleven days. The case became notorious, with Sarah's face splashed across the front of every newspaper in the country.Now, seventeen years later, that man is about to be released from prison. Fearful of the media storm that is sure to...

'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest 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, collections, magazines, ne...

Heart-warming short stories for cold winter nights…Featuring short stories from Sunday Times bestselling authors Miranda Dickinson and Claudia Carroll and highly anticipated debuts from Mhairi McFarlane and Liz Trenow, this collection is the ultimate treat.Each short story is followed up by exclusive extracts of each of the authors upcoming titles.Love, Loss and Coffee Cake: Through tears, heartbreak and the undying hope of love, a tale of a pair of star-crossed lov...

Featuring:Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once the effect has been established, of course.The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 all use brevity with striking results, whether presenting a comp...

Irresistible short stories from some of the top names in fiction writing today.A chance meeting with a handsome Italian stranger...The Christmas list - with a differenceA yummy mummy picks up the wrong bag, with surprising consequencesThe woman who wanted a life change, but got rather more than she bargained forThe ex-wife who could provide her ex-husband with an alibi for murderA mother's instincts and a daughter' love life...

What would you do if you could be a child again for one more day?  If I Was a Child Again is a collection of memories and inspirational words from some of Ireland’s finest writers, journalists and TV personalities as they tell us what they would do if they could be a child again for one more day. Some recall their fondest childhood memories, some are bittersweet, while others provide uplifting words of wisdom for today’s children. This book will make you laugh and cry but, above al...

A collection of short stories and poems with a twist