With her trademark honesty, Cecelia Ahern gives us thirty stories, all titled 'The Woman Who-', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous, moving and poignant, the stories capture the moments the characters are overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, frustration, intimidation, exhaustion - the private moments when they feel the need to roar.

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute; a man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life; a couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of self-discovery....

Romy is all set to join her boyfriend and his family in France for Christmas, though truth be told she isn't looking forward to it very much. And then she meets Felix - and her plans for the big day suddenly become a lot more interesting. This volume also includes 'Candlelight at Christmas' and 'The Christmas Fairy'.

The last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a full picture of the richness and diversity of this most American of genres from its very beginnings to the present day.

The stories in 'Fresh Complaint' continue that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of 'Baster' to the wry, moving account of a young traveler's search for enlightenment in 'Air Mail' (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises.

To mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's and Miguel de Cervantes' deaths in 2016, six Anglophone writers take inspiration from Cervantes, while six contemporary Spanish-language writers have written stories inspired by Shakespeare.

Original stories from Fanny Blake, Elizabeth Buchan, Rowan Coleman, Jenny Colgan, Philippa Gregory, Matt Haig, Veronica Henry, Andy McNab, Richard Madeley and John O'Farrell - with special anniversary recipes from The Hairy Bikers.

This is a haunting & dramatic collection of long & short stories which reveal the amazing range of one of Britain's major novelists. It features the first Wexford short story to have appeared since Means of Evil.

In ?Grace Poole Her Testimony?, Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Bront?͡s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

In this entertaining collection of stories, Louis de Bernieres introduces us to a man who turns his life around through developing his hobby of collecting cat-food tin labels. We also meet a traveller who embarks on a confusing love affair in Colombia, a dolphin romance and, in 'Gunter Weber's Confession', we return to the much-loved characters of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'.