These are stories of women’s lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it. Here are women at work, at home, on dates, at the doctor’s, with their families and with their friends. Here are women grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger. These are stories to make you feel fascinated but repelled, scared but delighted, revolted but aroused. Previously published as You Know You Want This.

These are stories of women’s lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it. Here are women at work, at home, on dates, at the doctor’s, with their families and with their friends. Here are women grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger. These are stories to make you feel fascinated but repelled, scared but delighted, revolted but aroused. Previously published as You Know You Want This.

These are stories of women's lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it. Here are women at work, at home, on dates, at the doctor's, with their families and with their friends. Here are women grappling with desire, punishment, guilt and anger. These are stories to make you feel fascinated but repelled, scared but delighted, revolted but aroused.

'Frankly superb. This pummelling eco-thriller camouflages the true 'understory' of societal collapse, and glows in the dark with original thinking' David Mitchell, author of Utopia AvenueA speculative thriller about the end of all things, set in the Pacific Northwest. A harrowing descent into a secret world.'Jane Smith' receives an unexplained envelope containing the key to a storage unit. And inside that storage unit is a taxidermy hummingbird and directions to a taxidermy salamander. Somehow, this bizarre treasure hunt, that Jane never expected or asked for, sets in motion a series of events that quickly put her and her family in danger.As she desperately seeks answers, she discovers time is running out - for her and possibly for the world.'This is climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping' The New York Times'Visionary, dark, beautiful, and strange, that rare novel that coaxes you into imagining the unimaginable' Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories'Harrowing, gripping, and profound. It's both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world' Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel

'Frankly superb. This pummelling eco-thriller camouflages the true 'understory' of societal collapse, and glows in the dark with original thinking' David Mitchell, author of Utopia AvenueA speculative thriller about the end of all things, set in the Pacific Northwest. A harrowing descent into a secret world.'Jane Smith' receives an unexplained envelope containing the key to a storage unit. And inside that storage unit is a taxidermy hummingbird and directions to a taxidermy salamander. Somehow, this bizarre treasure hunt, that Jane never expected or asked for, sets in motion a series of events that quickly put her and her family in danger.As she desperately seeks answers, she discovers time is running out - for her and possibly for the world.'This is climate fiction at its most urgent and gripping' The New York Times'Visionary, dark, beautiful, and strange, that rare novel that coaxes you into imagining the unimaginable' Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories'Harrowing, gripping, and profound. It's both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world' Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel

Features Five Great Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Gogol, Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories by Tolstoy, Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, and Gorky's Chelkash and Other Stories.

Cat Stories brings together two centuries of literary homage to the fascinating feline by great writers of every stripe – from Edgar Allan Poe and Walter de la Mare to Damon Runyon and Doris Lessing. Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches’ familiars – cats of all kinds come alive in these pages. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their humans; Patricia Highsmith imagines the intriguingly alien feline point of view; Kipling celebrates the independence of cats in his timeless tale, ‘The Cat That Walked by Himself ’. Cats flaunt their superiority in Angela Carter’s bawdy retelling of ‘Puss-in-Boots’ and Stephen Vincent Benet’s uncanny ‘The King of the Cats’, while humour abounds in stories by comic masters P. G. Wodehouse and Saki. The essential unknowableness of cats can inspire the most exotic flights of fancy: Italo Calvino’s secret city of cats in ‘The Garden of Stubborn Cats’; the disappearing animal in Ursula K. Le Guin’s brain-teasing ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’; the cartoon rodent and his cartoon nemesis in Steven Millhauser’s ‘Cat ’n’ Mouse’. In these and other stories, this delightful anthology offers cat lovers a many-faceted tribute to the mysterious objects of their affection.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) - a famous Scottish writer. Conan Doyle is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Other works by this prolific writer include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of view of Holmes's friend and admirer Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) — a famous Scottish writer. Conan Doyle is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Other works by this prolific writer include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of view of Holmes's friend and admirer Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) — a famous Scottish writer. Conan Doyle is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Other works by this prolific writer include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of view of Holmes's friend and admirer Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) — a famous Scottish writer. Conan Doyle is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Other works by this prolific writer include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, related in first-person narrative from the point of view of Holmes's friend and admirer Dr. Watson.

Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of short stories, personally chosen by Andrea Camilleri. It follows Inspector Montalbano from his very first case in Vigata, in which he stumbles upon a young girl lurking outside a courthouse with a pistol in her handbag. When she is taken in for questioning and won't utter a single word, Montalbano must find another way to learn who she is trying to kill, and why… Other cases include a missing woman who has run away from the love of her life; an old married couple who appear to be rehearsing their suicides; and a crime so dark there's only one person the inspector can call for help. With twists and turns aplenty, these short stories have all the wit, mystery and culinary gusto that Camilleri's fans have come to love him for.

Transporting us to all corners of the globe, the tales in Louis de Bernieres’ worldly and entertaining collection Labels and Other Stories feature a cast of unlikely and unforgettable heroes who can be found collecting luxury tinned cat-food labels, posting fish to the President, falling in love with dolphin deities and dining with Brazilian street thieves. And in ‘Gunter Weber's Confession’, we return once more to the Greek island of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and its much-loved characters. Full of wit, charm and warmth, Labels and Other Stories shows the imaginative range and unique storytelling power of one of our msot treasured writers.

A wonderful slipcase collection of 20 classic Dr. Seuss titles. A classic collection of twenty of Dr. Seuss’s best-loved stories – in one wonderful case! Includes: The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Green Eggs and Ham The Lorax Fox in Socks One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss’s ABC Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book If I Ran the Circus The Sneetches and Other Stories Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Horton Hears a Who I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! Mr Brown Can Moo! Can You? Ten Apples Up on Top There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! I Wish That I Had Duck Feet Wacky Wednesday The Dr. Seuss collection that every child needs!

A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.

A brilliant keepsake collection of twenty of Dr. Seuss’s best-loved stories, perfect for Dr. Seuss fans and new readers alike! Join a colourful cast of crazy characters in this fabulous collection of twenty of Dr. Seuss’s best-loved stories. Filled with hilarious tales told in rollicking rhyme, get ready to experience the wonderfully wacky world of Dr. Seuss with these marvellous pocket-sized editions. Contains: Dr. Seuss on the Loose Marvin K Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! Hunches in Bunches The Sneetches and Other Stories If I Ran the Circus I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book Hop on Pop Horton Hears a Who! Horton Hatches the Egg Dr. Seuss’ ABC The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Oh, The Places You’ll Go! One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish How The Grinch Stole Christmas There’s A Wocket in my Pocket! Fox in Socks The Cat in the Hat Green Eggs and Ham