Anthologies
Fans of quality literature can expand their experience of the short story form with this exciting collection of unabridged works. Authors include important talents past and present and cover a bracing range of genres, from ghost stories and domestic dramas to mysteries and character studies. Ruth Rendell, Barry Unsworth, A. S. Byatt, Angela Huth, Frederic Raphael, Haruki Murakami, Alan Sillitoe, Fay Weldon, and Patrick O'Brian are among the talents represented here. Readers include such notables as Janet McTeer, Rosalind Ayres, and Walter Lewis.
Ox-Tales is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. Water features stories by Esther Freud, David Park, Heri Kunzru, Zoë Heller, Michel Faber, William Boyd, Joanna Trollope, Giles Foden and Michael Morpurgo, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind Ox-Tales is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity’s work in project areas: agriculture in Earth , water projects in Water , conflict aid in Fire , and climate change in Air .
One hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote the internationally acclaimed Just So Stories. When Kipling wrote his story of the rhinoceros with the itchy skin, rhino numbers stood at around 65,000. Today, fewer than 3,000 black rhinos survive. The same tragic story goes for too many other animals. Now a glittering array of international authors have gathered together to contribute exclusive and original new stories inspired by Kipling’s original volume, and focussing on the animals which we need to protect today. Profits from the book will go to WildAid. William Boyd, Raffaella Barker, Nirmal Ghosh, Romesh Gunesekera, Witi Ihimaera, Radhika Jha, Hanif Kureishi, Antonia Michaelis, Michael Morpurgo, Jin Pyn Lee, Lauren St John, Kate Thompson, Nury Vittachi, Polly Samson, Louisa Young and Angela Young.
One for the Trouble - Book Slam Volume One is Book Slam's first annual, a collection of newly commissioned stories and poetry from some of their illustrious alumni, available as hardback, eBook, Audiobook and, shortly, multiplatform app.
