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A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar’s sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming...

At his high school basketball try-outs, nerdy sports-obsessed Brian Blum meets new kid Marcus Hayes. As a sportswriter, Brian...

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without...

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage,...

From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by...

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging...

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents....

Following the incredible success of his first book, In His Own Write, John Lennon’s second collection of stories, drawings and...

I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had...

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman’s first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone...

A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten...

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still...

‘My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her...

When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it…
After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old...

Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ stories and...

Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about...

Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other...

South London in the 1980s. Sixteen-year-old Brenton Brown is the mixed-race child of a mother he has never met. He's been living...

This story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission...

New York Times Bestselling author Craig T. Bouchard creates a daring, unique, and an action-packed new genre in his novel...

A major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century

The short story has a rich tradition in French...

When faced with betrayal, can you find peace?

Hope and Jack Langley's marriage gets off to a promising start: they spend their...

The final novel in the Harold Fry trilogy, this is a heart-stopping story told from the view point of his wife Maureen as she...

You are a young, ambitious, college-educated feminist. And you've just landed a job in television.

To climb the ranks, you do...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.

Well-written stories entertain us, make us...

'Oh, you're not crazy, Denise. I think this is probably the sanest you've ever been...'

Two women. An open road. The trip of a...