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A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie’s critically–acclaimed foray into light-hearted, romantic mysteries. Mrs Packington felt...

Read by a cast including Robert Bathurst, Richard Armitage, Imogen Church, Ben Onwukwe, and Anton Lesser International number one bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans and hitting the top of the bestseller lists with his...

From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume. ‘From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream – such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle...

In these witty and comic stories, Horace Rumpole takes on a variety of clients and activities. He, of course, brings each case to a successful end, all the while quoting poetry and drinking claret.

Sometimes the life we never planned becomes the one that changes us most. Somewhere Between Our Plans is a collection of eleven heartfelt stories about ordinary people facing unexpected turns in life. An unsent postcard awakens a forgotten love story. A struggling orchard searches for a new...

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

Brought to you by Penguin. The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life In this first full collection since Not the End of the World...

Narrated by Robert Bathurst, award-winning star of Cold Feet. Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fourteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels...

Struggling to switch off your thoughts at night?Boring Bedtime Stories To Put YOU To Sleep Extra Fast is a calming collection of 20 slow, gentle, and wonderfully uneventful stories created to help quiet a busy mind, release daily stress, and guide you naturally towards deep, restful sleep.Each...

The day following the Netherfield ball, Fitzwilliam Darcy is entrusted by Miss Bingley to convince Bingley of the undesirability of a connection with the Bennets while she herself prepares to move the household back to London without the knowledge of her brother. Although Darcy agrees in principle to Miss Bingley’s objections, he is unhappy with the furtive manner in which she is going about the whole thing. To think things through an agitated Darcy goes out for a ride and has an extraordinary experience that leaves him endowed with a special ability - is it a boon or a bane?

Ten stories. Ten dark mysteries. Ten encounters with reflections that should not exist. In She Married the Monster in the Mirror, mirrors are more than simple reflections. They conceal secrets, expose hidden truths, and reveal things that were never meant to be seen. Across 10 suspenseful...

Ten disasters. Ten warnings. Ten stories of survival. What happens when danger is recognised, but nobody acts in time? The Warning Came Too Late is a gripping collection of ten disaster fiction stories exploring devastating tsunamis, collapsing mountains, destructive tornadoes, catastrophic...

A spellbinding collection of ten short stories, each with strikingly different tones and characters. Journey Through Thorns begins with "The Author," in which a protective father catches a man following his teenage daughter. But when he confronts him he realizes there is much more to the man than could be imagined. Also among these tales is "Toby," a young boy who through a horrendous childhood has gained the ability to psychically control others, exacting his own brutal take on revenge.

Young Prince Skylar feels trapped as he sits at his twenty-first birthday celebration, where a bevy of royal maidens beauties are paraded before him in hopes of his choosing a wife. He has never had a male companion, but has always secretly longed for one. When a chance encounter leads young prince Skylar and Kimble, a noble and devastatingly handsome knight, to discover a powerful, otherworldly magic that connects them, they embark on an enchanted journey through realms beyond the mortal plane.

Pamela is a newly retired teacher with time on her hands. She’s finding it hard to muster enthusiasm for what’s ahead: exhausting postdivorce dating rituals and an uneasy relationship with her emotionally stunted, live-at-home son. But for Pamela, there’s a surprise in store that could challenge the status quo and, against all expectations, make life interesting again.

Hierdie splinternuwe versameling van Nataniël bevat 31 stories—5 in Engels, 26 in Afrikaans. Verskeie van die stukke is uit Nataniël-produksies oor ’n periode van twee jaar: Ring Van Vuur, Nineveh Song, Cake Topper en Duif.

H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and hypocrisies of Edwardian upper-class society.

One town. Four Volumes. Endless Nightmares. The Complete Ghoulsboro collection—creepy small town horror at its most chilling. Infamous murderers ravaging the streets, cabins in the woods that hold terrifying secrets, typewriters that type out futures better left unread. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you.

In this collection of Rumpole stories the comic, courageous, and corpulent 'great defender of muddled and sinful humanity' is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in tales whose wry humour and sparkling wit deftly send up the legal system. In Rumpole and the Angel of Death our hero achieves resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. Rumpole and the Way through the Woods involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and the hunted, animal rights and human wrongs.

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the...