Short stories

Edited by bestselling author, Ahmed Faiyaz, this anthology explores the conflict, chaos and confusion in the lives of interesting and colourful characters in Urban India. The reclusive kid with a beautiful bicycle; a migrant to Mumbai with Old Monk on his breath, trying to get off a Virar Fast at Borivali; the misunderstood watchman at the library who befriends a little girl;a playstation loving spoilt brat, who is smitten by his mathematics tutor; an old widower who longs for some intimacy with. ..More

Edited by bestselling author, Paritosh Uttam, this anthology offers snapshots of interesting characters in Urban India. The ten-year-old mathematics loving girl, haunted by memories of her dead mother. The man who buys expensive gifts for married women; an Indian kid who can name every American state in alphabetical order; a boy who knows more than he should about the extra marital affairs of his parents; a baby with secrets of his own; the pesky Maami in the neighbourhood, with a cure for every. ..More

A collection of short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - that encompasses five decades of storytelling. It includes "The 2003 Claret", "Boris and the Colonel" and "Mason's Life". It spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and more.. ..More

'V.S. Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception' New York Times Book Review. ..More

* Multi-layered, subtle, wonderful new short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. ..More

* From the highly acclaimed poet and novelist, winner of fiction prizes and wonderful reviews, comes Michele Roberts's latest short stories, available in paperback. ..More

John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County. From a hard-drinking, downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for paydirt, to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea, Ford County features a vivid cast of attorneys, crooks, hustlers, and convicts.. ..More

These charming portraits of young girls living far from home, 'secure' in their illicit relationships, of young men full of RSS swagger, of old women waiting late in the night for their grown-up children to come home, capture the lives of ordinary people in vivid and varied hues.. ..More

Deals with an investigation of the world to come. This title includes stories that reveal a different corner of life in the year 2024.. ..More

Confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age - identity in all its forms.. ..More

Short stories on the theme of excess, from one of India's foremost fortnightly magazines. ..More

Includes stories wherein: a man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own; teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods; and, a boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl.. ..More

Including a chronicle of the author's first mescaline experience, a trailer-park confrontation and ending with a poignant love story, this book is a collection of short stories.. ..More