Soldier, pimp or artist?What is Rart’s real nature?Is history repeating itself?By the most inventive and versatile of Thai short story writers,a tale of social upheavals and human ambiguitiesthat can be read at many levels.

loverthe dollan old cloth and a tray of mackerelsthe last drop of inkAlongside Rart Eikkatheit's Three Worlds, four more samples of the work of the most imaginative and versatile Thai writer of experimental short fiction, twice winner of the SEA Write Award.

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTWinner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize'Astonishingly accomplished'THE TIMES'Remarkable'OBSERVER'Gripping'NEW YORK TIMES'Fabulously atmospheric'GUARDIAN'Engros...

BB Delgado has obtained full and exclusive access rights to the time-travelling exploits and sexploits of a 'Whisperer,' numbers of whom can be found everywhere in time but who are as yet unknown to us. In this exclusive series BB Delgado relates the incredible stories told to him in complete secrecy by a 'Whisperer.' He does not know the end of the story. He might be the story; you might be the story. Have fun finding out..***Their bodies explored each other, skin against o...

The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong.

Joe has asked for a pet for his eighth birthday off his mum and dad.They go to the pet store and Joe sees the one he wants,its a hamster and he names him Harry.Harry settles in well in his new home and loves his new owner, but longs to discover new things and see new places.After learning to escape, Harry starts his exciting adventures but always makes sure hes back in his cage for when Joe and his family get home.Follow Harry and his adventures and see where he ends...

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese ...

Butch did a bad, bad thing. He went against his owner's orders, and he bit the postman. Unbeknownst to Butch, though, the postman was a werewolf. We all know what happens when a werewolf bites a human... but what happens when a dog bites a werewolf?Don't Bite the Postman, Puppies! is a short story, approximately 9 (print) pages in length.

A young man reluctantly on his way to an online date, tries to strike up a conversation with a girl on the tube. Despite her initial reluctance, she opens up slightly when she finds out his destination. As the train carries them onwards, both find their conversation moving them towards an unexpected conclusion.

The harrowing, utterly original debut novel about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country—now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba."Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence." —Entertainment Weekly

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud AtlasA gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that c...

Tom Stewart enters the car decorating Christmas contest that his small town holds every year. He wants to buy his family some sweet Christmas gifts with the $500 dollar prize, but as he designs his car he discovers that even if his Christmas season isn't perfect he still has a lot of blessings.