Story Books

The big book of western action stories. 1996. Read by Garrick Hagon, 23 hours 49 minutes. TB 10983. With selections by the premier short story writers of the genre, the reader will travel down the "Trail of the lonely gun", with Les Savage Jr., will witness "The strange ride of Perry Woodstock", by Max Brand, and will be introduced to Frank Bonham's "Border man". Also included are stories by Luke Short, Ernest Haycox, Ryerson Johnson, and many others. TB 10983. Detective stories from the Strand magazine. 1991. Read by Michael McStay, 14 hours 2 minutes. TB 9230. 25 stories of mystery and detection first published in the Strand magazine. Authors include: Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Sapper, Edgar Wallace, Aldous Huxley, Conan Doyle and E.C. Bentley. TB 9230. Classic English short stories, 1930-1955. 1972. Read by Multiple narrators, 11 hours 21 minutes. TB 9271. The Faber book of contemporary Australian short stories. 1988. Read by Erica Grant, Read by Nigel Graham, 14 hours 55 minutes. TB 9185. The art of story telling has always remained strong in Australia. When the European settlers arrived, tales travelled from smalltown bars to out-stations within the barren interior and towards the coast. In this collection, editor Murray Bail aims to demonstrate the special place the short story has within the culture of his country, challenging Patrick White's condemnation of Australian literature as being "a dreary dun-coloured offspring of journalist realism". TB 9185. Great racing stories. 1989. Read by Nigel Carrington, Read by Francis Jeater, 8 hours 42 minutes. TB 8818. Dick Francis, undisputed champion among thriller writers, and John Welcome, author of many turf classics, select and introduce 14 of their all time favourite short stories, featuring the very best of racing fiction.

Loves me, loves me not. 2009. Read by Multiple narrators, 17 hours 4 minutes. TB 17177. A collection of over forty love stories. Major American short stories. 1980. Read by Multiple narrators, 40 hours 37 minutes. TB 10266. This collection of 46 stories by 28 writers encompasses the full range of American short fiction. It includes a wide variety of subjects and forms, but strongly emphasises the work of the major writers, with four stories each by Hawthorne and Poe, two by James and two each by Irving, Crane and Faulkner. Stories range in time from 1819 to 1977, from traditional works to recent experimental fiction by Barth, Coover and Joyce Carol Oates. TB 10266. The mammoth book of best British mysteries. 2008. Read by Multiple narrators, 21 hours 14 minutes. TB 17178. Over 20 short stories of murder mystery, selected from the very cream of British crime fiction. Contributors include Lee Child, Colin Dexter, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Len Deighton, John Harvey, and many more. Contains strong language, violence and passages of a sexual nature.TB 17178. The mammoth book of fantastic science fiction : short novels of the 1970s. 1992. Read by Cameron Stewart, Read by Jacqueline King, 22 hours 20 minutes. TB 10196. In the 1970s science fiction finally took centre stage in the culture of both Britain and America. This kaleidoscope of the best of a decade of the genre includes works by Poul Anderson, Gordon R Dickson, Donald Kingsbury, Larry Niven, Frederick Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, John Varley, Joan D Vinge, Edward Wellen. TB 10196. The Mammoth book of the western: an anthology of classic stories of the American frontier. 1991. Read by Garrick Hagon, 21 hours 37 minutes. TB 11945. This volume brings together more than 20 short novels and stories, ranging from the excitement of Max Brand's `Wine on the Desert' to the realism of Stephen Crane's `The Blue Hotel', from Loren D. Estleman's elegiac `The Bandit' to Jack London's atmospheric `All

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Gold Canyon'. Many of the stories, which feature ranchers, American Indians, outlaws and pioneers, became celebrated films including Dorothy M. Johnson's `A Man Called Horse'. TB 11945. The Mammoth book of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories. 1995. Read by Multiple narrators, 26 hours 14 minutes. TB 10953. This anthology contains the cream from the golden age of the ghost story, spanning the Victorian era from 1839 right up to the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910. Many of literature's greatest names are in this collection, and these masters promise delicious and chilling - entertainment. TB 10953. The mammoth book of vintage science fiction. 1990. Read by Multiple narrators, 23 hours 4 minutes. TB 10306. In the 1970s science fiction finally took centre stage in the culture of both Britain and America. This kaleidoscope of the very best science fiction comes from a brilliant decade for the genre. TB 10306. Nobel crimes. 1992. Read by Garard Green, 11 hours 6 minutes. TB 9914. When the world's greatest writers turn to crime, mystery and detection, the results are stunning. From Boll's chilling tale of an unrecorded war crime, via classic crime stories such as Faulkner's "Smoke" and Hemingway's "The Killers" to T.S. Eliot's "McCavity" and Shaw's "The mysterious revenge", this book encompasses all kinds of crime and mystery stories. The writers are some of the most celebrated of our time, including Camus, France, Gordimer, Kipling, Marquez, Steinbeck and many more. TB 9914. The Oxford book of English short stories. 2009. Read by Multiple narrators, 22 hours 4 minutes. TB 17280. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse and Firbank. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject matter. TB 17280.

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The Penguin book of modern women's short stories. 1991. Read by Frances Jeater, 12 hours 48 minutes. TB 8874. Susan Hill's collection of short stories by British women reveals the consolidations made during the postwar period as women became more confident about articulating their desires and intimate thoughts. Taken together, the stories drive a tap root into different aspects of the feminine psyche. TB 8874. Sex in the city: London. 2010. Read by Multiple narrators, 8 hours 3 minutes. TB 18245. Twelve of the very best erotic writers have contributed to this anthology of erotic fiction which all have London themes. Contributors include: Marcelle Perks & Kevin Mullins, Francis Ann Kerr, Maxim Jakubowski, NJ Streitberger, Kristina Lloyd, Carrie Williams, C Clique, Matt Thorne, Valerie Grey, Elizabeth Coldwell, Lily Harlem and Justine Elyot. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 18245. Smoke signals: stories of London. 1993. Read by Various, 8 hours 34 minutes. TB10620. An anthology of new short stories, written by London writers, about the city. It includes the winning entries from the 1992 London short story competition, together with specially commissioned pieces from renowned authors. While the stories range in subject from cannibalism to spiritual enlightenment, from bigamy to racism, all are clearly rooted in London and reflect the common experience of a life dominated by journeys across a metropolis grinding to a halt, where meetings can influence lives and where hostility and isolation are matched by excitement. TB 10620. Winter's tales: new series. 1985. Read by Christopher Saul, 5 hours. TB 6096. A new series of contemporary stories by authors who are known internationally: Muriel Spark; James Chatto; Gillian Tindall; Cees Nooteboom; Giles Gordon; Clare Colvin; Rachel Billington; Zulfikar Ghose; Rachel Gould; and Frank Tuohy. TB 6096.

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Women of mystery. 1992. Read by Carmen Lynne Williamson, 9 hours 29 minutes. TB 9439. Cops, private eyes and ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations: here are heroines facing danger and solving crimes with daring and panache. Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler looks for a missing fellow-professor; Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski gets involved in a complicated game; Ruth Rendell's heroine undergoes liberation from her former self; Mary Higgins Clark highlights the heroic side of womankind in her story of a stewardess and a stowaway. TB 9439.

Aickman, Robert Intrusions: strange tales. 1980. Read by Andrew Timothy, 8 hours 52 minutes. TB 3837. Six macabre tales, in which the strange and unexpected happens to ordinary people at the most ordinary times. TB 3837.

Aldiss, Brian W Last orders, and other stories. 1977. Read by Peter Gray, 9 hours 30 minutes. TB 3286. Science fiction stories warning us what we might expect to find if a spacecraft landed in the human psyche. TB 3286.

Amis, Martin Einstein's monsters. 1987. Read by Antony Higginson, 5 hours 2 minutes. TB 7454. A collection of five stories that create perplexing visions of a postnuclear holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 7454.

Anderson, Jessica Stories from the warm zone and Sydney stories. 1987. Read by Rosemary Miller, 9 hours 13 minutes. TB 7493. Stories from the warm zone are told from the point of view of an eight-year-old girl, the youngest in a family of one boy and two sisters. Sibling rivalries and alliances, love and apartness chronicle the subtle interplay of the various members of her family as they establish separate identities at home and in school. Sydney stories

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are set in the adult world but retain the same sureness of vision and sharp dialogue. TB 7493.

Archer, Jeffrey A quiver full of arrows. 1981. Read by Brian Perkins, 5 hours 45 minutes. TB 6863. Twelve short stories with locations as far apart as London and New York, Mexico and Nigeria. In "The Luncheon" a young man learns the dangers of taking out someone who" enjoys a light lunch"; a pleasantly untraditional cricket match is played between Oxford and Cambridge in "The Century" and 'Broken Routine" shatters the incredibly well ordered life of Septimus Horatio Cornwallis with charming ferocity on an unscheduled train from Cannon Street. TB 6863.

Archer, Jeffrey Cat o'nine tales: and other stories. 2007. Read by Anton Lang, 7 hours 32 minutes. TB 17172. These short stories feature the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know as well as some more poignant and telling characters. Many of these stories came to Archer while he was incarcerated for two years in five different prisons, and so they have a prison theme. Others were inspired since he was released. TB 17172.

Asimov, Isaac Nine tomorrows: tales from the near future. 1959. Read by Ian Craig, 7 hours 54 minutes. TB 5745. Stories combining scientific fact with mankind's unscientific unpredictability provide nine glimpses into the not-to-distant future of earth people.

Asimov, Isaac The bicentennial man: and other stories. 1978. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 9 hours. TB 3085. Science fiction stories, written between 1969 and 1975 and dealing with a wide range of ideas, including the author's favourite theme, robotics. TB 3085.

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Atwood, Margaret Dancing girls and other stories. 1982. Read by Pauline Munro, 7 hours 41 minutes. TB 5371. A collection of twelve stories about everyday people who are confronted by unexpected happenings. These include trying to survive at sea after an aircrash, and discovering the harsh reality of childbirth. TB 5371.

Atwood, Margaret Bluebeard's egg, and other stories. 1987. Read by Pauline Munro, 9 hours 3 minutes. TB 7424. A wide range of stories with settings from a remote rural backwater to a frenetic metropolis in which the author reveals her awareness of the despair and anxiety in the human race - and her sense of the ridiculous. She explores the less conventional bonds: that between a political activist and his cat, a woman and her dead psychiatrist and an artist and the men she stalks to use as naked models.

Auchincloss, Louis Skinny island: more tales of Manhattan. 1988. Read by James Tillitt, 7 hours 37 minutes. TB 8476. From the turn of the century to our present urban follies, these stories follow the fortunes of the socially secure and powerful as they try to cope with the changes shaped by the momentous events and growing anxieties of recent decades. Taken together, the tales weave a larger pattern of human strengths and foibles that bemuses the mind and touches the heart. TB 8476.

Austen, Jane Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon. 1974. Read by Norma West, 6 hours 44 minutes. TB 12580. "Lady Susan", with its wicked, beautiful and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama. "The Watsons" is a story whose vitality and optimism centre on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. "Sanditon" is set in a seaside town and its themes concern the new speculative consumer society and foreshadow the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. TB 12580.

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Ballard, J G Myths of the near future. 1982. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 7 hours 3 minutes. TB 4791. Ten somewhat nightmarish and gruesome tales, ranging from the forced colonisation of holidaymakers in the Canaries to solve European unemployment, to the horrific consequences for a Japanese P.O.W. entrusted with the disposal of fifty corpses at the end of the Second World War. TB 4791.

Ballard, J G The disaster area. 1967. Read by Arthur Blake, 6 hours 7 minutes. TB 7728. These nine stories are science fiction at its most thought provoking. They project current trends into the future and explore the psychological traumas of adjusting to their logical conclusions. The agricultural sprays that produce seagulls with 20 foot wing spans; cars which fall to pieces after six months owing to effective road design; a science student trying to invent a flying machine in a city where space is at its premium. TB 7728.

Barnes, Julian The lemon table. 2004. Read by Timothy West, Read by Prunella Scales, 6 hours 9 minutes. TB 17827. In this collection of stories it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death at the 'lemon table', and each of Julian Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way. Contains strong language. TB 17827.

Bates, H E The wild cherry tree. 1968. Read by Anthony Parker, 6 hours 45 minutes. TB 641. A collection of short stories. TB 641.

Bellow, Saul Mosby's memoirs and other stories. 1968. Read by Marvin Kane, 6 hours 45 minutes. TB 921. The mystery and fascination of human experience are the subjects of these six stories. TB 921.

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Bentley, Phyllis More tales of the West Riding. 1974. Read by Eric Gillett, 7 hours 14 minutes. TB 2706. Short stories set in the West Riding of Yorkshire, telling of the people the author loves and understands so well. TB 2706.

Birmingham, Stephen Heart troubles: short stories. 1969. Read by Marvin Kane, 6 hours 54 minutes. TB 943. Fourteen short stories about people of various ages, all beset by troubles of the heart. TB 943.

Boll, Heinrich Children are civilians too. 1973. Read by Eric Gillett, 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 2671. A collection of short stories written between 1947 and 1951, all portraying the aftermath of the war in Germany as the country struggles to restore its faith in itself after the devastation. TB 2671.

Borges, Jorge Luis Doctor Brodie's report. 1976. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 3 hours 5 minutes. TB 8232. Eleven short stories set in Buenos Aires told with an almost laconic simplicity that occasionally shocks with true Spanish cruelty. In "The Gospel according to Mark" a visitor dallies with conversation and is too successful; in "The Intruder" two brothers fall in love with the same woman and seek, tragically, for a solution; and in the title story David Brodie D.D., a Scottish missionary, tries to understand the customs of the Yahoos. TB 8232.

Borges, Jorge Luis The book of sand. 1979. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 4 hours 46 minutes. TB 7514. All these stories were written in the author's seventies. "Blind man's exercises", he calls them, but although increasing blindness has given his writings a deeper sadness, his way of conjuring with images - an infinite book, a one-sided disc, mirrors, a golden mask, a dagger - is as potent and beautiful as ever. He seems to be incapable of losing his visionary touch. The second half of the book

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consists of poems written in Spanish as well as in translation. TB 7514.

Bowen, Elizabeth The collected stories of Elizabeth Bowen. 1980. Read by Rosalind Shanks, 38 hours 38 minutes. TB 4841. Rational behaviour and social portraiture can be expected in novels but the author reckoned that short stories allowed for 'what is crazy about humanity'. All of them, from early brief sketches in Encounters (1923) to the later 'novellas', have a distinctive, disconcerting edge. TB 4841.

Boyd, William On the Yankee station: and other stories. 1981. Read by Garrick Hagon, 7 hours 45 minutes. TB 8832. Eighteen short stories ranging from adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school to murder in a quiet village in Devon. There are two adventures from the earlier career of Morgan Leafy (anti-hero of "A Good Man in Africa", TB 4053) and the title story is a chilling study of hatred during the Vietnam War. TB 8832.

Boyden, Joseph Born with a tooth. 2001. Read by Mike Morrison, 8 hours. TB 17449. A collection of short stories set in the native reserves in Northern Ontario. The characters include a young woman who falls in love with a wolf, a boy who enters the pro-wrestling ring and takes on the defending champion, a lead singer for an all-girl punk band, a desperado named Painted Tongue, and a town nerd who learns how to literally escape his own ugly skin. TB 17449.

Bradley, Marion Zimmer The best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. 1990. Read by Kate Binchy, 13 hours 44 minutes. TB 8345. Fifteen unearthly tales spanning the whole universe of the imagination. From an alien invasion where death is the key to success ... to a Darkovian Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior... TB 8345.

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Buchan, John The best short stories of John Buchan. 1980. Read by David Geary, 7 hours 24 minutes. TB 3850. Twelve of the many short stories written by Buchan between the 1880's and 1920's.

Burgess, Anthony The devil's mode. 1989. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 12 hours 34 minutes. TB 9856. His first collection of stories, as varied and original as one would expect. At the centre of the collection is a novella "Hun", telling the story of Attila. Eight further stories stretch from a husband and wife's infidelities in Brunei and Malaya, to 17th century Spain, where Shakespeare meets Cervantes and the two men debate their respective modes of writing. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 9856.

Byatt, A S The Matisse stories. 1993. Read by Tom Crowe, 2 hours 54 minutes. TB 10245. Here are three stories, haunted in different ways by the spirit of Matisse. Lives unravel from simple beginnings: a trip to the hairdresser, a cleaning lady's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese restaurant. The everyday is transformed, the ordinary peels back to expose pain, to reveal desire, longing and joy in colour and creation. Even against our will, it seems great art lights the patterns of and meaning to our lives. TB 10245.

Calvino, Italo Adam, one afternoon: and other stories. 1983. Read by Gordon Dulieu, 6 hours 49 minutes. TB 5032. Stories written over twenty years ago in the Italy of the Partisans in which the author describes the anguished alternation between hope and fear of men faced with death, both by Partisan and German. He feels also with a fifteen-year-old the awareness of his parents' condescension and hollow heartiness. TB 5032.

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Carter, Angela Black Venus. 1985. Read by Pauline Munro, 4 hours 33 minutes. TB 6210. A rich, ripe collection of short stories, some of which are based on real people such a Edgar Allen Poe and Lizzie Borden. The title story is about Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome but reluctant muse, who never asked to be called a Black Venus. TB 6210.

Carver, Raymond Beginners. 2009. Read by William Roberts, Read by Jeff Harding, Read by Regina Reagan, 8 hours 41 minutes. TB 17184. Beginners" is Carver's most famous collection of short stories "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". This is the unedited version. A young girl, dancing with her lover amidst the debris of an older man's life, has her first forewarning of the dangers of adulthood, and is filled with an 'unbearable happiness'. A man and woman lock themselves in a motel room and slowly, painfully, acknowledge the end of a relationship, while somewhere else in the lonely Midwest a man is photographed over and over again as he attempts to locate himself in a world that seems utterly without focus. Contains strong language. TB 17184.

Cather, Willa The short stories of Willa Cather. 1989. Read by William Roberts, Read by Helen Horton, 19 hours 4 minutes. TB 9517. In this selection from Willa Cather's work, Hermione Lee presents the reader with a diverse mixture of writings, spanning all her creative life. Cather draws on her observations of black oppression, commercial art, the literary lifestyle and family art in contemporary America. TB 9517.

Cheever, John The stories of John Cheever. 1990. Read by Garrick Hagon, 35 hours 44 minutes. TB 9401. These outstanding stories of American award-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the century. Stories of love and squalor in which momentary glimpses of brightness contend with time, social

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change and the chaos of history. Contains strong language. TB 9401.

Chekhov, A P Five short stories. Read by Simon Cadell, Read by Michael G Cox, Read by Patience Collier, 1 hours 6 minutes. TB 13741. This collection consists of "The Black Monk" and "The Boys" read by Simon Cadell, "The Cobbler and the Devil" and "The Siren" read by Michael Graham Cox, and "The Party" read by Patience Collier. Chekhov wrote these humorous stories to earn extra money while studying medicine in Moscow in 1879.The humour is often tempered with pessimism and there is frequently a twist in the ending. TB 13741.

Chesterton, G K The wisdom of Father Brown. 1914. Read by Peter Bryant, 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 802. Twelve further detective stories. TB 802.

Christie, Agatha Thirteen problems. 1972. Read by Marilyn Finlay, 7 hours 34 minutes. TB 9821. Miss Marple appears in each of these thirteen stories, solving the most amazing mysteries quietly and unobtrusively from her chair by the fireside. TB 9821.

Christie, Agatha Poirot's early cases. 1974. Read by Peter Barker, 10 hours 45 minutes. TB 2659. Eighteen short stories centring on the cases which helped to establish the little Belgian detective's professional reputation. TB 2659.

Clarke, Arthur C The wind from the sun: stories of the space age. 1972. Read by David Banks, 7 hours 34 minutes. TB 9162. Eighteen short science fiction stories written during the 1960s.

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Cloete, Stuart Three white swans, and other stories. 1971. Read by David Strong, 9 hours 21 minutes. TB 1766. Short stories set in Malaya, America, Africa, and England setting out with sometimes brutal realism the emotions, similar in all the countries, which make men act as they do. TB 1766.

Coleman, Jane Candia Moving on. 1999. Read by Kath Taylor-Kemp, 9 hours 44 minutes. TB 15283. A collection of short stories about the American West.

Cooper, Jilly Lisa and co. 1982. Read by Patricia Hughes, 9 hours 28 minutes. TB 7146. Fourteen short stories about Lisa and others who fall in and out of love, finding, losing (and often finding again) the men of their dreams.

Cowan, Judith Elaine Gambler's fallacy. 2001. Read by Phyllis Lowe, 7 hours 28 minutes. TB 18479. A collection of seven stories set in Trois-Rivières, Québec. They feature an erratic cast of ordinarily forgotten folks who have fallen through the cracks. These include a woman called Raymonde, who is anxiously awaiting guests to her lover's book launching, and Jacques, a man of simplicity, observing the often unnoticed and underappreciated aspects of daily life. TB 18479.

Coyote, Ivan E One man's trash. 2002. Read by Nicole Nakoneshny, 2 hours 30 minutes. TB 17868. A collection of stories about being gay and searching out new frontiers on the road and on the home front. Includes stories of Coyote's attempts to get married in Vegas with her girlfriend, her heroic horse-riding aunt, and a family of beaver-eating eccentrics. TB 17868.

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Crace, Jim Continent. 1986. Read by Tom Crowe, 4 hours 3 minutes. TB 6779. In his "Histories" Pycletius wrote: "There and beyond is a seventh continent...and its business is trade and superstition." Seven surprising narratives about this mythical land and its inhabitants explore the irreconcilable forces implicit in all cultures. TB 6779.

Dahl, Roald The collected short stories of Roald Dahl. 1991. Read by Stephen Thorne, 29 hours 21 minutes. TB 9571. This complete collection of Roald Dahl's adult short stories includes all those from his world famous books "Over To You", "Someone Like You", "Kiss, Kiss" and "Switch Bitch", many of them seen in the superb television series "Tales of the Unexpected". In addition, there are eight further stories taken from other sources, including two which have not been published before in book form "The Bookseller" and "The Surgeon". TB 9571.

Dick, Philip K Little black box. 1990. Read by Eric Meyers, 19 hours 52 minutes. TB 9633. Fifth and final volume of collected short stories, covering the period 1963-1981, the year before his death. TB 9633.

Dickens, Charles Christmas stories. 1850-67. Read by George Hagan, 34 hours 30 minutes. TB 696. A collection of short stories written by Dickens, sometimes alone, sometimes in collaboration with Wilkie Collins, for the Christmas numbers of magazines to which he contributed. TB 696.

Donaldson, Stephen R Reave the just and other tales. 1999. Read by Stuart Milligan, 16 hours 55 minutes. TB 17388. A collection of eight short stories rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace. Contains violence and passages of a sexual nature. TB 17388.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 1894. Read by Stephen Jack, 8 hours 45 minutes. TB 1288. Eleven adventures of the Baker Street detective.

Doyle, Arthur Conan His last bow: some reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes. 1917. Read by Andrew Timothy, 6 hours 3 minutes. TB 1243. Dr Watson once again opens his portfoliio to reveal eight strange cases solved by the keen intellect of the master detective. They range from murdering and kidnapping to theft and treachery though on one occasion it is Holmes and Watson who commit the crime of burglary. TB 1243.

Du Maurier, Daphne Not after midnight, and other stories. 1971. Read by Peter Cushing, 11 hours 13 minutes. TB 1764. Five long stories about unremarkable people caught up in situations beyond the boundaries of their experience. TB 1764.

Duncan, Ronald The perfect mistress: and other stories. 1969. Read by Colin Keith-Johnston, 4 hours 30 minutes. TB 1015. A collection of short stories, tender and grim, witty and earnest, in a variety of settings. TB 1015.

Ellison, Harlan Shatterday. 1982. Read by Marvin Kane, 10 hours 56 minutes. TB 4475. Sixteen science fiction stories (one a novella), to freeze the bloodhorror for our own time. TB 4475.

Fleming, Ian Octopussy. 2008. Read by David Rintoul, 2 hours 51 minutes. TB 15638. James Bond series; book 14. Sequel to: The man with the golden gun, TB 1161. In Octopussy, a brilliant major pays a high price when his past catches up with him. In The Living Daylights, bond has a rendezvous with a sniper in Berlin. In The Property of a

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Lady, an auction at Sotheby's is heating up as the bidding starts with fear and ends with terror. Contains strong language. TB 15638.

Fowles, John The ebony tower. 1974. Read by David Dunhill, 10 hours 45 minutes. TB 2782. Four novellas, varied in style and subject, together with a translation of an early French romance to which the author can trace much of his own need to write. TB 2782.

Gardam, Jane The Sidmouth letters. 1980. Read by Robin Holmes, 6 hours 13 minutes. TB 3658. Short stories in which the author conveys the extraordinary nature of the most ordinary events. TB 3658.

Gardam, Jane The people on Privilege Hill. 2008. Read by Jane Gardam, 5 hours 6 minutes. TB 17352. A collection of stories ranging from a Victorian mansion converted into a home for unmarried mothers to a wartime hospital in the middle of the Blitz, from ghost stories to brilliant observations of love and loneliness in their various manifestations - including, in 'Pangbourne', a woman who falls in love with a gorilla - to reflections on the haphazard nature of intellect and memories in 'The Last Reunion'. TB 17352.

Gellhorn, Martha The short novels of Martha Gellhorn. 1991. Read by Lorelei King, 29 hours 21 minutes. TB 9423. Here are tales of people living with enthusiasm, riding on success and facing failure. All meet their fates in the landscapes described so well by Martha Gellhorn: the great cities of Europe, the colonial enclaves of Africa, the American deep south.

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Gilliatt, Penelope What's it like out? and other stories. 1968. Read by Arthur Bush, 6 hours 45 minutes. TB 959. Nine short stories showing the author's deep understanding of people and their actions. TB 959.

Glennon, Paul How did you sleep?. 2000. Read by Geoffrey Pierpoint, 5 hours 15 minutes. TB 17891. A collection of nineteen short stories on the subjects of madmen, paranoiacs and the allegorically burdened: a husband wonders if his wife has always been made of wood; a scientist suspects his left hand is plotting against him; a tourist visits a museum dedicated to his own failed romance. For the characters in these stories life is a board game to which they have lost the instructions. Contains strong language and violence. TB 17891.

Gordimer, Nadine Something out there. 1984. Read by Norma West, 7 hours 32 minutes. TB 5308. Nine stories: one, the last and longest, in which the menace of an alien creature "out there", stealing food and killing pets, counterpoints the preparations of a guerilla cell for an act of sabotage. The author writes with a compassionate perception of the various moods of love as well as the sorrow that can ensue.

Greene, Graham May we borrow your husband? and other comedies of the sexual life. 1967. Read by Alan Lyne, 4 hours 40 minutes. TB 157. A collection of short stories which leave the reader feeling he has met some unusual but strangely real people. TB 157.

Greene, Graham Twenty-one stories. 2001. Read by Stephen Grief, 7 hours 18 minutes. TB 16738. The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr

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Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered. Contains strong language.TB 16738.

Greig, Francis The bite and other apocryphal tales. 1982. Read by William Abney, 5 hours 42 minutes. TB 4243. Some of the tales are funny, others sinister and most of them would demand some courage to read alone in an empty house at night ... TB 4243.

Hardy, Melissa The uncharted heart. 2001. Read by Geoffrey Pierpoint, 6 hours 36 minutes. TB 17865. Eight stories, describing the unseen or "uncharted" regions of life, set among pioneers and Aboriginal people in Northern Ontario in the early 1900s. In "Traplines" a woman and her child flee from a dangerous man, whom she knows to be a weendigo, a monster with an insatiable appetite for eating humans. A fur trader's discovery, in "The Ice Woman," of an Ojibway woman encased in ice at the edge of a lake leads to his own disappearance. Contains strong language. TB 17865.

Hardy, Thomas A changed man. 1889. Read by Robin Holmes, 13 hours 42 minutes. TB 2640. Twelve short stories.

Hardy, Thomas Wessex tales. 1991. Read by Vincent Brimble, 9 hours 6 minutes. TB 8901. In this series of short stories, Hardy brings out the superstitions and legends of a Wessex which was rapidly passing and the harsh social climate of Dorset in the 1880s. His growing cynicism over personal and sexual relationships also comes through. TB 8901.

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Hasek, Jaroslav The red commissar: including further adventures of the good soldier Svejk and other stories. 1983. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 7 hours 50 minutes. TB 5120. By the time war broke out the author had compromised himself so completely that it came as a relief for him to escape into military duties. In 1918 he was made a Bolshevik Commissar and these stories gently poke fun at bureaucratic idiocy and pomposity while not overlooking the fact that this was a time when it was "as simple to garrotte a human being as to wring the neck of a goose." TB 5120.

Henry, O 58 short stories. 1908. Read by Marvin Kane, 19 hours 25 minutes. TB 1751. Humorous and ingenious short stories.

Heti, Sheila The middle stories. 2001. Read by Aileen Seaton, 3 hours 30 minutes. TB 18455. The Middle Stories is a collection of stories, fables, and short brutalities that are alternately heart-warming, cruel, and hilarious. Finalist for the Writers Craft Award and the Re-Lit Award. TB 18455.

Hill, Reginald Asking for the moon. 1996. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 9 hours 30 minutes. TB 11071. Dalziel and Pascoe series; book 13. In this collection of four short stories, Reginal Hill divulges how Fat Andy and Peter Pascoe met in "The last national service man". "Pascoe's ghost" finds the inspector investigating the fate of a woman who seems to have slipped out the world. And Pascoe isn't the only one having a brush with the supernatural: "Dalziel's ghost" sees him expressing a surprising interest in the 'other side'. "One small step" looks to the future where murder on the moon requires the personal intervention of Commissioner Peter Pascoe of the Eurofed Justice Department... TB 11071.

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Houston, Pam Cowboys are my weakness and other stories. 1993. Read by Liza Ross, 4 hours 29 minutes. TB 9786. Sexy, gutsy, and written in prose reflecting the psychic and geographical wilderness through which its characters roam, these twelve stories tell of the pleasure of dancing the two-step at the Stockgrowers' ball, the pity of stalking beautiful beasts, the comforting companionship of dogs, the challenge of a tetchy horse, and of course, sex, love and loss. Contains strong language. TB 9786.

Howard, Elizabeth Jane Mr Wrong. 1975. Read by Carol Marsh, 8 hours 45 minutes. TB 2826. Nine stories with themes ranging from marital infidelity to the macabre explore the passion, trust, confusion, and betrayal of human sentiments. TB 2826.

Hunter, Aislinn What's left us: stories and a novella. 2001. Read by Aileen Seaton, 6 hours 19 minutes. TB 18099. Set in London, Dublin, Vancouver and southern Ontario, the six stories and novella explore love, loss and family relations. The characters include a woman who believes she has a Divine calling to work at Dublin's xxx-rated cinema; a pregnant and unwed young woman who spends the month before her child's birth searching for her family's mysterious origins; and a woman whose marriage to a carpenter is in such a state of disrepair that she commits a very public act of rebellion. TB 18099.

Innes, Michael The Appleby file: detective stories. 1975. Read by Andrew Timothy, 7 hours. TB 2939. Sir John Appleby series; book 33. A collection of short stories about the varied adventures of Sir John Appleby, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. TB 2939.

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Irving, Washington The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 2006. Read by Jeff Harding, 15 hours 41 minutes. TB 17332. 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle' are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with the masterpieces in miniature collected here: travel essays, tale of romance, biographical discourses and literary musings. TB 17332.

Ishiguro, Kazuo Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall. 2009. Read by David Thorpe, Read by Matt Addis, Read by Peter Brooke, 6 hours 9 minutes. TB 16880. In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Contains strong language. TB 16880.

Jacobs, W W Light freights. 1901. Read by Jon Curle, 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 1305. Stories of old salts, introducing some of the author's best comic characters, Bob Pretty, Ginger Dick and Old Sam Small. TB 1305.

Jameson, Storm Women against men. 1982. Read by Vivien Creegor, 11 hours 21 minutes. TB 5501. Three short novels about very different women, examining their relationships with men and with other women. TB 5501.

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer East into upper east: plain tales from New York and New Delhi. 1998. Read by Multiple narrators, 13 hours 10 minutes. TB 11825. The stories in this collection span two worlds - the restless, aspiring society of New York's Upper East side, and the world of India's capital city, New Delhi, where the old India is giving way to

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one powered by industry and property development. A rich cast of characters inhabits these stories - Indian businessmen, holy women, students, society hostesses and ambitious young politicans; New Yorkers preoccupied with money yet in search of meaning, struggling with their longings and failures and complicated sex lives. TB 11825.

Joseph, Marie The way we were. 1994. Read by Carole Boyd, 8 hours 30 minutes. TB 11014. A collection of Marie Joseph's short stories, previously published in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. The stories include the husband who has spent his life surrounded by women and longs for a son and companion; a couple who are brought together with unexpected help from a feline source; and a younger sister's wedding which brings faint misgivings and memories from the past. All are told in the sepia of nostalgia and tinged with the irony that are Marie Joseph's hallmarks. TB 11014.

Kafka, Franz The metamorphosis and other stories. 2007. Read by Thomas Eyre, Read by Steve Hodson, Read by Damian Lynch, 9 hours 27 minutes. TB 17462. A collection of short stories. In the main story "The Metamorphosis" - A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. TB 17462.

Kennedy, Lena Ivy of the angel. 1993. Read by Joe Dunlop, Read by Carol Marsh, 7 hours 6 minutes. TB 9651. Eleven vivid and compelling stories. The title story reveals why an elderly bag lady becomes the centre of attention in an Oxford Street store; there is a tale of thwarted love in London's East End, and a number of examples of how the smooth surface of a buried past can be disrupted by the intrusions of the present. With her customary freshness and directness, Lena Kennedy explores the enduring power of love, the triumph of hope over adversity, the problems of illness and racial prejudice, and the quirky kindness of fate. TB 9651.

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Kiely, Benedict A letter to Peachtree: and nine other stories. 1988. Read by Philip O'Sullivan, 7 hours 48 minutes. TB 7415. Ten short stories in which the tragic and comic sides of life rub shoulders in the west of Ireland. In the title story a trip on the train out of Dublin becomes something much more by the time the occupants return, more off the rail than on. In Secondary Top, the local name for the part of the school where the older girls go, letters of complaint have been received from the mothers of the teenagers alleging the intimate attentions of one of their teachers. TB 7415.

King, Stephen Four past midnight. 1990. Read by Adam Henderson, 28 hours 54 minutes. TB 9598. This collection of four novellas tells of a terrifying airline journey to a dead world, of a lonely man who suddenly finds himself very much not alone, of a new camera which takes terrifying pictures and of evil at work in Iowa. Contains violence. TB 9598.

Kinsella, W P Japanese baseball and other stories . 2000. Read by Jim Rodger, 6 hours 5 minutes. TB 17451. A collection of baseball short stories that will delight all lovers of engaging storytelling and fans of the sport Kinsella chronicles in "Shoeless Joe," "Field of dreams," and "The thrill of the grass." Kinsella weaves his characters into the thrill of the game, be it in Japan, Central America, Canada or the U.S., with a variety of comic, tragic, and mystical results. TB 17451.

Kipling, Rudyard The man who would be king and other stories. 1987. Read by Michael Elder, 4 hours 13 minutes. TB 8946. A collection of stories features the tale of two ex-British soldiers who try to establish their own kingdom. TB 8946.

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Kipling, Rudyard Mrs Bathurst and other stories. 1991. Read by Jon Cartwright, 11 hours 10 minutes. TB 9357. In this selection of his late stories, some unforgettable women tell, or conceal, the secrets of their lives. There are ghosts, hauntings and psychological studies. One of the earliest radio signals comes crackling through the dark, a pioneer motorist rejoices in his newfound freedom, and the English find themselves threatened from the air. Here are Kipling's considered views on writing and artists. TB

Klassen, Sarah The peony season. 2000. Read by Anne Glatt, 9 hours 15 minutes. TB 18225. From Zaire to Winnipeg to Ukraine, these short stories provide an assortment of characters who transcend various circumstances to explore personal experiences. They reflect a recurring tension between a desire for solitude and the needs of companionship; between wanting to enter other people's stories and lives and wanting to remain separate, a stranger. TB 18225.

Le Guin, Ursula K The compass rose.1983. Read by Malcolm Ruthven, 9 hours 30 minutes. TB 5155. A compass of spatial dimensions as well as the usual four directions give a framework to twenty new stories ranging from science fiction to fantasy and a magical realism. The author finds comedy as well as tragedy as her satire stretches from a wellknown TV series to a totalitarian America of the future. TB 5155.

Leach, Christopher Scars and other ceremonies. 1980. Read by Brian Perkins, 4 hours 58 minutes. TB 3779. Twelve short stories with hidden resonances of fear and violence.

Lee, Nancy Dead girls. 2002. Read by Gillian Hart, 7 hours 31 minutes. TB 18071. A hand model's strange and troubled bond with her ailing father is revealed though an inventory of her body parts. A marriage is

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tested as a mother struggles to cope with the disappearance of her prostitute daughter, while two angry women in a mini-van search for catharsis as they rampage through the night. Linked by the background narrative of a serial killer's arrest in Vancouver, these dark short stories of emotional wagers, discovery and loss reveal the desires and delusions that compel us to do the things we do. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. TB 18071.

Leonard, Elmore The complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard. 2007. Read by Jeff Harding, 21 hours 14 minutes. TB 16172.

Lessing, Doris The story of a non-marrying man, and other stories. 1972. Read by Norma West, 10 hours 18 minutes. TB 8836. In this collection of 13 short stories Doris Lessing offers a unique, sensitive and sometimes humorous study of humanity from a tale of adultery in "Not a Very Nice Story" to an analysis of self-doubt in "The Temptation of Jack Orkney". TB 8836.

Lessing, Doris The black madonna. 1992. Read by Norma West, 2 hours 52 minutes. TB 9039. A series of short stories with an African setting, exploring the whole range of human emotions, portraying modern woman in all her complexity.TB 9039.

Linklater, Eric The stories of Eric Linklater. 1968. Read by Marvin Kane, 13 hours 30 minutes. TB 498. Eighteen stories from his previous collections with widely varied themes and backgrounds. TB 498.

Listowel, Judith Hare Dusk on the Danube. 1969. Read by Carol Marsh, 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 1013. Six stories set against a background of the author's native Hungary during the changing times from 1920 to the Nazi occupation and Soviet oppression. TB 1013.

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Lovecraft, H P H.P. Lovecraft omnibus 1: At the mountains of madness and other novels of terror. 1985. Read by William Roberts, 20 hours 6 minutes. TB 17021. Gathered together are seven tales of horror in the gothic tradition full of hinted terrors and unholy stenches, supernatural terror and vilest horror. TB 17021.

Lyon, Annabel Oxygen. 2000. Read by Angela Willson, 5 hours 10 minutes. TB 18085. A collection of short stories covering many different elements within the theme of family. Topics include dating, death, relationships between parents and children, and those between friends. Contains strong language. TB 18085.

MacLaverty, Bernard The great Profundo: and other stories. 1987. Read by Denys Hawthorne, 5 hours 9 minutes. TB 7354. The characters in these stories are on the fringes of society, forced to seek consolation as best they can, like the lonely old lady who resorts to posting a monthly letter to herself. In a shabby world, some just suffer unseen, but a young boy manages to lose his shame in the psoriasis on his chest through his friendship with an eccentric duchess, and a poem is the link between two strangers. TB 7354.

Malamud, Bernard The stories of Bernard Malamud. 1984. Read by Maxine Howe, 10 hours 43 minutes. TB 5466. A collection of twenty-five short stories about Jewish Americans, a celebration and an expiation which gently unravels the complexities of human behaviour with both clarity and charity. TB 5466.

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Mansfield, Katherine Collected stories. 1945. Read by Rosalind Shanks, 29 hours 4 minutes. TB 5303. A collection of ninety-one short stories from a New Zealander who spent most of her life in Europe, writing stories and continually seeking higher standards in her writing. Her first book was published in 1911 and, until her early death in 1923 at the age of thirty-four, she wrote continuously, although from 1917 she was also searching for a cure for tuberculosis. Her reputation as a writer stems from the undramatic, sensitive and lyrical quality of her stories. TB 5303.

Mars-Jones, Adam Lantern lecture. 1981. Read by Robert Gladwell, 8 hours 8 minutes. TB 4438. Three stories by a new writer: the title story is an amusing account of the disorders which are the normal occurence of Philip Yorke's life, the last squire of Erdigg driving in his acient Morris Cowley with a bicycle on the roof for lifeboat duty. The second story, Hoosh-mi, is a satire of royalty and the last and longest, Bathpool Park, is concerned with the law. TB

Maupassant, Guy de Boule de suif and other stories. 1880. Read by Robin Holmes, 9 hours 5 minutes. TB 1414. A collection of short stories by one of the masters of French literature.

Mitchison, Naomi Images of Africa. 1980. Read by Robin Holmes, 5 hours 4 minutes. TB 3879. Stories from Botswana and Zambia.

Moggach, Deborah Smile. 1988. Read by Helen Copp, Read by Raymond Sawyer, 4 hours 43 minutes. TB 7800. A series of 11 realistic short stories, written with wit and compassion, in which the author explores modern relationships and everyday human crises. Through her characters, which range from a Brighton waitress to a father to be at an ante-natal class,

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various themes are revealed: women's endeavour to please in love and the compromises people make in life. TB 7800.

Moore, George Celibate lives. 1927. Read by George Hagan, 8 hours 11 minutes. TB 1005. Five stories, each chronicling a life.

Morgan, Bernice The topography of love: stories. 2000. Read by Ann Saunders, 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 17551. A day spent at the home of a movie star leads three fiends to divulge secrets. A woman returns home after many years to find that her childhood friend has led a bleak version of her own life. Morgan's short stories take place in Newfoundland and focus on the bonds between family and friends. Contains strong language. TB 17551.

Mortimer, John Rumpole. 1980. Read by John Westbrook, 14 hours 43 minutes. TB 3774. Rumpole series; book 3. Rumpole is the oldest Junior in Chambers, a barrister who never prosecutes, is apt to quote poetry, and has a wife known as "She Who Must Be Obeyed". The stories in this collection were previously published as "Rumpole of the Bailey" and "The Trials of Rumpole".

Munro, Alice Runaway. 2006. Read by Liza Ross, Read by Garrick Hagon, 11 hours 44 minutes. TB 17168. The runaway of the disturbing title story is Carla, a congenital 'bolter', who has neighbourly fantasies that take on a frightening afterlife... Elsewhere, a stagestruck girl finds life is more Shakespearean than even she imagines; while Tessa, a young country woman with strange powers cannot foresee what will happen if she makes off with a plausible charmer. The stories unravel layers of the past, and different versions of the truth: the characters learn that if you look too closely at anything - the past, the truth - it may crumble. Contains strong language. TB 17168.

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Murakami, Haruki The elephant vanishes. 2006. Read by Multiple narrators, 10:43. TB 15975. In these haunting, hilarious stories the author makes a determined assault on the normal. A man's favourite elephant simply vanishes; a couple suffering midnight hunger pangs hold up a McDonalds; and a woman finds she is irresistible to a green monster that burrows through her garden. TB 15975.

Naipaul, Shiva Beyond the dragon's mouth: stories and pieces. 1984. Read by Ian Craig, 18 hours 40 minutes. TB 5643. In 1964 as a young man the author sailed out of Port of Spain harbour, beyond the strait known as the Dragon's Mouth to the escape he had longed for for over 18 years. Two years later, while still at Oxford, a fellow student from Trinidad is found dead and the wholeness of life is broken. A new structure must be built out of the ruins and this construction shines through the collection of writings that make up the main part of the book. TB 5643.

Narayan, R K A horse and two goats, and other stories. 1970. Read by Garard Green, 4 hours 50 minutes. TB 1810. Malgudi series; book 10. Sequel to: The sweet vendor. Short stories full of enchantment by one of India's most important living novelists. TB 1810.

Nin, Anais Little birds: erotica. 1990. Read by Lorelei King, 3 hours 51 minutes. TB 8734. Some passages of a sexual nature may be considered offensive. Glimpses in dream-like fashion of the subtle or explicit means by which men and women are aroused. Each of the thirteen vignettes captures a moment of sexual awakening, recognition or fulfilment. Lust, obsession, fantasy and desire emerge as part of the human condition, as pure or as complex as any other of its aspects. TB 8734.

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Oates, Joyce Carol Last days. 1985. Read by Maxine Howe, 9 hours 22 minutes. TB 6667. Short stories that enter into the private world of each of its characters: Saul Morgenstein who is too smart for any psychiatrist to help, Wendy, who cannot face going to the hospital where her mother was taken after an accident and the glimpse of an ageing lover in the street. The second half of the book leaves America for the cities of Eastern Europe, as seen through the eyes of educated Americans who visit for conferences and are led into less easily expressed experiences.

O'Brien, Edna The love object. 1968. Read by Gretel Davis, 6 hours 15 minutes. TB 1200. Short stories concerned with obsessive love and its disappointments.

O'Faolain, Sean The talking trees and other stories. 1971. Read by Stephen Jack, 8 hours. TB 1660. Short stories set in Ireland.

Okri, Ben Stars of the new curfew. 1989. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 5 hours 59 minutes. TB 9863. Short stories from the 1991 Booker Prize winner. A succession of flights into the grotesque and phantasmagoric: a medicine huckster bedevilled by dreams as he touts a panacea called "Power drug", a hallucinatory horror show, in which a musician is haunted by premonitions of his girl friend's death. Okri's world is one in which nightmares have become the only reality. TB 9863.

Paley, Grace Enormous changes at the last minute. 1975. Read by Stanley Pritchard, 4 hours 35 minutes. TB 2733. A 'splendidly comic and unladylike' collection of short stories from a contemporary American writer. TB 2733.

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Priestley, J B The Carfitt Crisis, and two other stories. 1975. Read by Andrew Timothy, 7 hours 5 minutes. TB 2819. Described by the author as 'entertainments embodying some serious ideas,' and a short horror story. TB 2819.

Pritchett, V S The Camberwell beauty. 1974. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 6 hours 14 minutes. TB 2628. Nine stories, various in mood and circumstance, about those areas where the absurd cohabits with the rational, reality with fantasy. TB 2628.

Rendell, Ruth The fever tree and other stories. 1982. Read by Anne White, 7 hours 22 minutes. TB 4479. Eleven short stories, one a novella, ranging through a variety of reasons for murder and undermining any comfortable assumptions previously held. TB 4479.

Rendell, Ruth The new girlfriend and other stories. 1985. Read by Pauline Munro, 5 hours 22 minutes. TB 6033. A collection of sinister short stories, from "The New Girl Friend's" murderous confusion of identities to "The Convolvulus Clock" where each tick is the tick of guilt. TB 6033.

Rhys, Jean Sleep it off lady. 1976. Read by Vivien Creegor, 4 hours 7 minute4s. TB 5402. A collection of sixteen stories beginning and ending in Dominica, the West Indian island where Jean Rhys was born. TB 5402.

Ross, Bess A bit of crack and car culture and other stories. 1990. Read by Brigit Forsyth, 3 hours 44 minutes. TB 9597. This is a 'village of stories', rooted in the stark shore-line community in Ross-shire: real people engaged in the day to day struggles, joys and vanities of life. TB 9597.

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Sagan, Francoise Incidental music. 1985. Read by Carol Marsh, 3 hours 58 minutes. TB 6120. Twelve tales of love discovered and love lost, love disowned and love betrayed - stories of charm and tenderness with an ironic twist in the tail, most set in the superficial world of wealthy Parisian society. TB 6120.

Saki The chronicles of Clovis. 1911. Read by Andrew Timothy, 14 hours 45 minutes. TB 2462. A selection of stories from the Chronicles of Clovis.

Sayers, Dorothy L Hangman's holiday. 1996. Read by Ian Carmichael, 6 hours 38 minutes. TB 10889. Lord Peter Wimsey, the delightful detective, is a familiar and popular character but, also introduced is the incredible Mr Egg, salesman extraordinaire, whose powers of deduction, if they don't surpass, at least equal those of Lord Peter. This collection of stories is one of the most interesting, for its blend of the new and the old, yet still retaining the essential charm that has captivated her many readers over the years. TB 10889.

Schroeder, Adam Lewis Kingdom of monkeys. 2001. Read by Dorothy Hayward, 6 hours 7 minutes. TB 17691. Charting the jungles and depths of the South Seas, these stories delve into the lives of a Malay boy in 19th-century Singapore, a Dutch painter in wartime Bali, an opium-smoking porter in modernday Thailand, and others, offering an exposé of colonial power in Asia, as well as a voyage across its culture, religion, and landscape. Contains strong language. TB 17691.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis The image and other stories. 1986. Read by Maxine Howe, 9 hours 22 minutes. TB 6387. Another 22 stories, set in contemporary America and pre-war Warsaw, from a Nobel Prizewinner. They tell of miracles and tests

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of faith - "the mad hurricane of human passions and the struggle with them". TB 6387.

Smith, Iain Crichton Murdo, and other stories. 1981. Read by William Abney, 5 hours 45 minutes. TB 4120. A collection of short stories in which the author displays a poetic and anarchic talent. TB 4120.

Spring, Howard Eleven stories & a beginning. 1973. Read by Peter Gray, 9 hours 52 minutes. TB 2188. A collection, published posthumously, of short stories and the beginning of an unfinished novel. TB 2188.

Standish, Robert Elephant law, and other stories. 1969. Read by Marvin Kane, 6 hours 49 minutes. TB 1025. Twelve short stories set in Ceylon, the Far East, Europe and Canada. TB 1025.

Stern, James The stories of James Stern. 1968. Read by George Hagan, 12 hours. TB 589. Satirical sketches of upper-class behaviour, compassionate gestures towards the under-privileged, and a keen interest in dreams. TB 589.

Stevenson, Robert Louis Short stories. Read by Robert Trotter, 4 hours 29 minutes. TB 14129. "The Misadventures of John Nicholson": the only story set by Stevenson in the Scotland of his own time; the relationship between John and his stern parent reflects his own troubled relationship with his father. "Will O'The Mill": Will wants to live life to the full but stays serenely in the mountains growing old and wise, while time and life slip away. "Markheim": on Christmas Day the dealer lies in his shop, a dagger in his breast. Upstairs, Markheim searches for the money for which he has killed. He hears steps on the stairs, and slowly the door opens ... TB 14129.

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Stoker, Bram Dracula's guest. 1990. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 5 hours 59 minutes. TB 9609. A collection of nine horror and suspense stories from the author of "Dracula".

Stoker, Bram Midnight tales. 1990. Read by Patrick Romer, 7 hours 31 minutes. TB 8301. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Beefsteak room at the Lyceum Theatre was the scene for brilliant and cosmopolitan gatherings hosted by Sir Henry Irving. Irving and his guests told strange tales of far-distant places. Bram Stoker was Irving's manager during these years and these conversations provided him with the inspiration for his classic horror fiction "Dracula". Contains violence. TB 8301.

Swift, Graham Learning to swim and other stories. 1982. Read by Antony Higginson, 6 hours 47 minutes. TB 6455. Graham Swift's 11 analytical, yet enigmatic, stories explore the enclosed worlds in which we confine our lives: sexual and familial enclosures with their tensions and rifts; refuges built of illusion and deception; the traps of obsession and the falsehood of erroneous authority. TB 6455.

Symons, Julian The tigers of Subtopia and other stories. 1982. Read by Tom Crowe, 6 hours 25 minutes. TB 4602. Eleven stories of murder, blackmail and deceit resolved in most cases by an unexpected twist in the tail. TB 4602.

Taylor, Elizabeth The devastating boys, and other stories. 1972. Read by John Richmond, 6 hours 38 minutes. TB 2086. Short stories about people in search of happiness and their vulnerability.

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Theroux, Paul The London embassy. 1982. Read by Marvin Kane, 8 hours 32 minutes. TB 4533. The narrator linking these related short stories and thumb - nail sketches is a forty-year old diplomat, newly appointed as Political Officer to the American Embassy in London. He views the city and its citizens, with a foreigner's penetrating eye, almost as a stage set holding together personalities. TB 4533.

Thurber, James The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze. 1992. Read by William Roberts, 5 hours and 45 minutes. TB 9827. Thirty six short pieces described by the author as "mainly humorous, but with a few kind of sad ones mixed in". First published in 1935, this volume contains some hilarious classic essays about language and people. TB 9827.

Trevor, William Angels at the Ritz, and other stories. 1975. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 08:15. TB 2881. Twelve stories in which ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary situations.

Trevor, William Family sins & other stories. 1990. Read by Marie McCarthy, 8 hours 2 minutes. TB 10311. The intimacy which masks the most significant secrets and motives; the casualties of bereavement; the foibles of human nature; the compromises made for gain; the victims by nature of birth; the poverty of life without love; these are some of the subjects around which William Trevor weaves magic.TB 10311.

Updike, John Pigeon feathers and other stories. 1993. Read by Hayward Morse, 8 hours 43 minutes. TB 10019. The theme of memory runs through this collection of short stories and for many of the characters the past is a miraculous land perpetually in need of rediscovery. The stories concern an America where most are exiles and moving automobiles contain a lot of their lives. They move from comic romance to sombre monologue,

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by way of soliloquies delivered by an angel, an AP clerk and a lifeguard; and dialogues between man and his wife, a man and his child, a boy and his mother, a boy and his minister and several quests and hosts. The setting is generally Pensylvania. TB 10019.

Waugh, Evelyn The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, and other stories. 1989. Read by Michael Lumsden, 6 hours 18 minutes. TB 10264. "The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold" is the terrifying story of a novelist whose imagination turns on and engulfs him. A semiautobiographical depiction of a brief time of insanity, it is one of Waugh's most disturbing pieces and shows what a fragile thing mastery can prove to be. There are also two short pieces "Tactical exercise" and "Love among the ruins". TB 10264.

Weldon, Fay Polaris and other stories. 1985. Read by David Sinclair, 8 hours 18 minutes. TB 5909. Twelve short stories ranging from the wilds of Scotland in "Polaris", where sub-mariner, Timmy, conducts his uneasy marriage, to far away Tasmania in "Oh Mary Don't You Cry Any More" with the strong southern winds bearing away both hope and grief. In "Christmas Lists" the compulsion to make lists takes over the life of the list-maker and everyday suburbia is viewed with a scurrilous elegance. TB 5909.

Weldon, Fay A hard time to be a father.1998. Read by Charlotte Stevens, 7 hours 50 minutes. TB 11745. A collection of nineteen tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire, and necessary restraint; of the near future, the recent past; of old habits, new technology; of won't-be mothers and would-be fathers; and of houses, ancient and modern. Contains strong language. TB 11745.

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Wells, H G Complete short stories. 1927. Read by Michael de Morgan, 30 hours. TB 1621. Stories packed with humour, strangeness, horror and imagination. TB 1621.

Welty, Eudora The collected stories of Eudora Welty. 1981. Read by Marvin Kane, 28 hours 52 minutes. TB 4349. A collection of all Eudora Welty's short stories from the earliest Death of a Travelling Salesman, published in 1936 in `a little magazine', to a couple not yet in the collection. The settings of her stories are wide ranging but all coloured by her life in Jackson, Mississippi, where the present is moulded so often by the past. TB 4349.

Wharton, Edith The ghost stories of Edith Wharton. 1975. Read by Peter Gray, 12 hours. TB 3078. Stories of mystery written by the author over the years 1904 and 1937, inspired partly by the fear of ghosts she experienced as a small child. Set in the bleak mansions of England, America, and Normandy, eleven classic tales depict the terrors of persons confronted by unearthly entities.

Wilde, Oscar Lord Arthur Savile's crime, and other short stories. 2008. Read by Derek Jacobi, 6 hours 44 minutes. TB 16482. Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to a beggar who is not what he seems, and Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman.

Yates, Dornford Berry and co. 1921. Read by Robin Holmes, 10 hours 21 minutes. TB 3115. Bertram "Berry" Pleydell series: book 1. The hilarious incidents in the life of Berry and family.

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