Short Stories

'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...

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...

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...

Everybody got a story, everybody got a taleQuestion is: Is it despair or prevail? Banneker Terrace on 129th and Fred Doug ain't pretty, but it's home. Home to young and...

Jordan Peele curates this groundbreaking anthology of brand new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

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...

13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power 13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories...

From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Writing in exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo...

'One of African literature's most fascinating and unorthodox figures' Brian Chikwava 'The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of...

A collection of diamond-sharp stories from an award-winning writer, for fans of Eliza Clark's She's Always Hungry and Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties. What happens when you...

A mythical water ferret once native to the Dutch waterways adapts to the terrestrial realm, taking up residence in the sand dunes. A park ranger becomes obsessed with the water ferrets’...

A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more,...

Now in paperback, this blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring two new stories ―Includes “Incident at Bear Creek...

A richly imagined short-story collection that deftly explores the connections that bind us- how we make them, maintain them, or even break them when they no longer serve us In...

In this previously banned collection of seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed in apartheid South Africa. Characterised by his striking style...

Grotesquely gothic short stories to keep you awake all night. Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tales. A Reaper readies herself for her...

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed...

From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility With equal humour, sorrow...

An electric new collection of stories set in contemporary New York, from the award-winning author of A Lucky Man and National Book Award finalist, Jamel Brinkley. What does it mean...

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love. AUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE...

In this collection of short stories, offbeat characters are caught up in extraordinary situations that test the boundaries of reality . . .A love-hungry goddess of the sea arrives on...

A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among...

Over three months of 2021, eight exceptional and emerging comic-book artists have been mentored by four established graphic novel creators. Catalyst is the result. Born of SelfMadeHero's 12-week Graphic Anthology...

A genre-smashing collection of short stories, exploring larger themes of race, violence, and love – all told with sly humour. Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of...

Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

Winner of ABIA Literary Fiction of the Year Award 2015 Winner of the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction 2015 Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013 In...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

From We Need Diverse Books, the organisation behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes a young adult fantasy short story collection featuring some of the best own-voices children’s authors, including...

Illustrated by Bryan MossFrom award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of BuddhaEight strangers looking for enlightenment...

From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave...

A celebratory 20th anniversary edition of this landmark collection from Black writers across the literary spectrumThis ground-breaking anthology was first published twenty years ago, into a different literary landscape. Showcasing...

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time, with...

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. You want a home. You want to win back...

From ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ (Toni Morrison) – the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon – a collection of remarkable short stories from...

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez.It is a book centred on one extended family – the Belens...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacologicalLove, despite everything Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest,...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' LANGSTON HUGHES A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in...

***2020 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction******2020 Story Prize Finalist******Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction***An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going...

A poignant and compelling collection of short stories about those whose lives have been marked by the risk of displacement, from the winner of the AKO Caine Prize. An enterprising...

A landmark contemporary collection celebrating the work of 200 women writers of African descentNearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of...

A stunning collection of all new stories from the twice winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award — essential reading for understanding the state of America today.A boy stands alone, unable to...

Poems & StoriesThe Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts. Part...

A virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize.In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti’s virtuosity is on full display...

Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize 2022Finalist of the 2022 Firecracker Award in FictionCoconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke....

Edwidge Danticat's first short story collection. Gorgeous 10th anniversary edition — complete with a new story! Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to...

A thrillingly universal portrait of a young woman caught between two culturesKara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be...

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth. In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives...

Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction In partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future. Unlimited Futures is an anthology of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Bolu Babalola takes the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in her debut collection. Focusing...