Anthologies: general

This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West is the second entry in the Divide anthology series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality, and sense of transience alive in the American West. In this collection legends, myths,...

A charming little instant classic for all ages. For the first time ever, years of comic-book and MAD magazine creator, Wally Wood's never-published personal Christmas card art plus Wood's rare Christmas cartoons and comicstrips collected into one...

"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement." -DAVID MALOUF, author of Ransom: A Novel and The Happy Life: The Search...

A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous.If...

A child discovers the terrible secret of the garden shed. New housing estates become battlefields. A werewolf returns to the loving arms of their family. Australia's colonial history is recast with zombie penguins and contemporary life is haunted by...

Cri Fi, Sci Fi, Noir, Rom Com, Lit Fic, Western, Horror, Gothic, Fantasy, Fairytale... In Spineless Wonders' latest anthology of microlit, writers were invited to play with genre.  Here you will find some of the well-worn tropes from...

A woman whocarries her fate and that of her community in her hair is beguiled by the deceptivedesigns of Europeans out to colonise her most prized possession. A man findshappiness in the reincarnation of a lost love. A young woman risks her life...

Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of...

The thirteen letters collected by Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, give us intimate glimpses into her life in Bath and Chawton and on visits to London, many details finding echoes in her fiction. Brought together in this book, these artefacts make...

Epitaphs are words to be remembered by, short poems or phrases literally written in stone. They can be practical, carrying some variation of the familiar "Here Lies," but they can also be brilliantly creative with personally meaningful quotes or words...

Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story through the remarkable prose, poetry and illustration that...

'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the love of food' wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets,...

Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter explores...

No work has challenged its readers like Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His 'Proverbs of Hell' have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of these...

The fifteenth anniversary of the hit science fiction podcast Escape Pod,featuring new and exclusive stories from today's bestselling writers.Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary ofcutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod...

Named as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian.A mind-bending short-story collection from award-winning science fiction author Nina Allan.A collection of short stories from the award-winning author of The Rift and The Dollmaker, Nina...

An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre.The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears kicking and screaming into the light in this second collection of brand-new tales of terror...

The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge's religious writings.Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge's religious...

An examination of Thomas Keneally's work and receptionBooker Prize winner and Living National Treasure, Thomas Keneally still divides critical opinion: he is both a morally challenging stylist and a commercial hack, a wise commentator on society and a...

Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing...

An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally...

Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and people, A.B. Mitford - who lived...

A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shouldersis a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work...

A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream.Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. It...

The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 19761991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself - a mausoleum of lovers - comes to take its place. The...

A classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike.Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty and revenge and the basis for a Hollywood feature film starring Keanu Reaves 47 Ronin is the epic tale of a...

Japanese Folktales is Yei Theodora Ozaki's classic collection of twenty-two traditional Japanese stories. The book introduces the reader to the rich world of the Japanese imagination, a world of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings;...

Winner of the Big Other Award in Translation Winner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of...

If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a 28-year-old, having just returned home to the States...

All over the world traditional tales were told at the fireside until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down...

While exploring in the forbidden area near Old Mill Road, Bizzee Bear and Rascal and Rowdy Raccoon discover a worried Nester, after a fall maroons him in the woods. Nester is different from the other woodland animals. He has feathers but can't fly and he...

Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition ofBest Canadian Essaysshowcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2021."Our current, tumultuous age" writes editor Mireille Silcoff, "is an important time for essayists, because in...

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it?Good Mom on...

Forty influential and diverse Canadians with expertise in subjects such as Indigenous rights, climate change, social justice and race, gun control, higher education and poetry reflect on everything Canada is getting right-and what still needs to change...

What can a microbial gravesite on a moon teach us? Why is a group of scientists risking their lives to safeguard a seed bank? How does a virus detective story show us why we need to be vigilant about the next disease outbreak?Great science writing has...

Age range 10+You don't need to be an adult to break news and change the world. You can start your career as a young reporter right now! Fun, informative and easy to use, Kid Reporter is packed with inspiring stories from young people who've already...

From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a book about the art of reading. In Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace, Yiyun Li invites you to travel with her through Tolstoy's novel - and with fellow readers...

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It isedited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Juryand Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the...

Tree With Golden Apples is a collection of twelve evocative stories drawn from world myths that reveal both the beauty and truth offered to humans by the plant kingdom. Susan Strauss, a renowned professional storyteller, and educator, begins each section...

These poems and short stories you are about to engage in, are inspired and based on true events. Experiences and inner thoughts are dazzled with a sprinkling of the esoteric occult and fiction. When you read these poems and short stories, try to find...

A fun mystery and adventure fiction about three regular hardworking accountants taking on the challenge of finding a lost treasure within the walls of the HBCU where they work. Will they let time, fear, or work keep them from what could be the best...

Daenerys Moonbeam (Dana) is a black lab that shares her adventures while prompting children to share their own. Dana is an advocate for inclusivity and gratitude. She shares experiences and themes that children can relate to while providing support,...

Surprising events unfold as an earthly messenger is asked by Spirit to deliver a message during her own extraordinary experience in a Peruvian Ayahuasca Center. Her journey coincides with the message she has been asked to deliver, this realization coming...

In Imperfect Equilibrium is a collection of written work by 22 student writers that provides a glimpse into the minds of today's youth and the growing pressure placed upon them. Whether it be pressure from relationships, social norms, climate change, or...

"Cantina Psalms" main characters include penthouse politicos, icy homegrown drug czars, and a mysterious redhead who creates havoc for everyone. Caught in the middle, is the Mayor's bodyguard, who has to protect himself from good trouble and bad,...

Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Storiesaims to bring the riches of contemporary Ukrainian literature-and of contemporary Ukraine, too-to the world. While Ukraine is under sustained attack, many in the West have marveled at the nation's strength in...

Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology edited by James Aquilone and featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others.Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr...