2025 releases

Obsession and persistence warp reality in this collection of macabre stories set in Junji Ito’s bloodcurdling world.  A dark evil lurks in the unreachable depths of a pipe, groaning out moans...

The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance—similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images.  There...

Translated by Mui Poopoksakul 'Evocative, erudite, and often very funny stories of Bangkok life.'— The Guardian A 'Book to Look Out For' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed, The Sad Part...

Translated from Chinese by Kevin Wang Set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley, a collection of linked stories that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence, centered...

'McBride at his brave and joyous best' New York Times Book Review 'A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places' San Francisco Chronicle An antiques dealer discovers...

 Voices of the archipelago, weaving tales from shore to shore.Stories from the Islands is a bilingual short story anthology featuring works by ten emerging Indonesian writers selected as part of...

A heart-warming collection of stories featuring Merdeka Generation Seniors who had lived through the challenging development of pre-independent Singapore to its present day; and yet are now facing new challengesThis...

Translated by Bruce Fulton & Ju-Chan Fulton A selection of the best short stories by Oh Jung-hee, one of South Korea's most influential writersIn this emblematic selection of her stories,...

A stunning work exploring what it means to refind yourself and reconnect with others while coming to terms with having lived through war. Nur and Abid relearn to love after...

Translated by Polly Barton Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent and pervasive sexism faced by women in modern-day Japan.The...

 The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore...

Tiwi Girl is the story of Mia, an ordinary girl living at Purnalli outstation with her family. When she tries to fit in with the wrong kids at school, she...

'What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real' A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami's classic short story.Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It...

Collected stories From Australia's master storyteller comes this retrospective of his best short stories from the past two decadesPictures of You: Collected Stories brings together the best of acclaimed writer Tony...

Translated by Anton Hur From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a new novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research centre...

Stories WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS SUE KAUFMAN PRIZEWINNER OF THE...

Twenty-two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller Translated by Richard Medhurst Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible.' Chris Power, The Guardian...

A debut collection of surreal, skin-piercing stories about the boundless longing of queer Black women. A runaway seeks shelter from violence with a pack of wild coyotes. A young woman...

Debut author Molly Olgun brings us The Sea Gives Up the Dead, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild...

Nine women, nine stories, woven together in a stunning collection rooted in contemporary Nigeria Funmi Fetto's unforgettable debut brings to life the stories of nine Nigerian women as they navigate race,...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like...

 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the...

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.A researcher abroad in Rome...

Translated by Archana Madhavan An exhilarating speculative short story collection from South Korean author Amil, transporting readers to new worlds We had always been rare and mysterious creatures. We'd been...

Translated by Polly Barton This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level. In these stories of human connection...

A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of...

Translated by Rosalind Harvey Deft and disquieting, oscillating between the real and the fantastical, The Accidentals is the brilliant new short story collection from International Booker-shortlisted duo Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey....

Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern...

Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since Victory CityIf old age was...

A fierce and blazing debut short story collection from Monika Radojevic, winner of the 2019 #Merky Books New Writers' Prize Across thirty striking tales, Monika Radojevic weaves together the surreal...

Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination and careful research, this is the ultimate collection of African folklore, with 50 entertaining tales and commentary from noted folklorist Helen Nde, presented in a...

'Enchanting...intriguing [...] A wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone.' The Wall Street Journal Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into...

From the authentic and original healing fiction author of TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES comes a 1.4-million-copy bestseller - set in a famously scenic railway line in Japan, following key emotional dramas...

‘A thrill for the sickos among us’ JIA TOLENTINO ‘Utterly inimitable’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘Tulathimutte is a pervert, a madman and a stone-cold genius’ Carmen Maria Machado LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024...

Once we were strangers,legs bent the wrong way,rough voices falling to the wind ...But in our hearts we wanted more than this. In our hearts, we knew there was more.'A...

Translated by Lucy North The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary...

Originally featured in the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, these are Jamaica Kincaid’s first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York. ‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago Tribune Talk...

Signed copies available Introducing a bold new voice - one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today. A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically...

A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of...

A short-story collection with echoes of Tony Birch’s Shadowboxing and Nam Le’s The Boat, Ken Chan’s fictional accounts are hewn from fragmented childhood memories of life in an Chinese-Australian family in the...

From the New York Timesbestselling author of the Indian Lake trilogy: Three stories that uncover what's lurking just beyond your headlights... Take a road trip into your darkest nightmares with three stories...

**Winner, This Is Horror Award****Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award****Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award** A collection of 15 stories that feature, among others, zombies, a hardboiled detective, a giant...

Climate Fiction for a Better Future Otherworldly but remarkably familiar, ancestral but firmly rooted in alternate futures, these twelve innovative stories winners of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest organised...

A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores community expectations, familial strife and the struggle for survival.... A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a...

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures...

No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to...

You think you know these stories, don’t you? You are wrong. You don’t know them at all. Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists...