Open Secrets My Documents Notes from the Fog Lot
The Garden Party and Other Stories Pure Gold The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Thunderstruck & Other Stories The Largesse of the Sea Maiden My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories
Open Secrets My Documents Notes from the Fog Lot

Cracking Short Story Collections

By John Patrick McHugh

Cracking Short Story Collections

By John Patrick McHugh

All these collections are marvellous, all have influenced my writing and the book in quiet or very blatant ways. None of them will let you down in a backroom brawl.

Open Secrets

Open Secrets

Alice Munro

£9.99 £9.49

Hard to narrow it down to one Munro so just read them all please.

My Documents

My Documents

Alejandro Zambra

£12.99 £12.34

Zambra is such a warm-hearted and devilish writer. No matter how many times I read this collection, the sentences always seem new to me.

Notes from the Fog

Notes from the Fog

Ben Marcus

£12.99 £12.34

So smart, so funny, so strange.

Lot

Lot

Bryan Washington

£9.99 £9.49

What a writer, what a ridiculously smooth stylist.

The Garden Party and Other Stories

The Garden Party and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

£8.99 £8.54

Mansfied is an utter joy. Her stories feel like they were written tomorrow.

Pure Gold

Pure Gold

John Patrick McHugh

£12.99

'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' Sally Rooney

The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories

The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories

Donald Antrim

£8.99

Hilarious and heart breaking at the same time.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Richard Yates

£9.99 £9.49

Yates is simply wonderful. The king of the third-person.

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

ZZ Packer

£9.99 £9.49

Please publish again soon.

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Elizabeth McCracken

£15.99 £15.19

Her stories live up to her surname.

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Denis Johnson

£9.99 £9.49

Jesus' Son is outstanding. This collection is as good if different, if much much much sadder. Line by line, it is hard to top Johnson.

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories

Frank O'Connor

£10.99 £10.44

Frank O'Connor is Chekov with a Cork accent and better jokes.