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50 extraordinary true stories. From the storytelling phenomenon "The Moth" comes a collection of the best stories told on their stage covering themes of risk, courage and facing the unknown. "The Moth" has presented thousands of stories around the world since 1997 and these are some of the best, ranging from humorous, to moving, to gripping, featuring figures from various walks of life.

First published in 1930, FEAR graphically describes the terrible experiences of soldiers during WWI. It tells the story of Jean Dartemont, a young man called up in 1915. He is not a rebel, but neither is he awed by hierarchical authority. After an exceedingly short training period, he refuses to follow his platoon and is sent to Artois in the trenches. With absolute realism, Gabriel Chevallier depicts what he experienced every day, for months:...

Reminiscent of early John Grisham, this fast-paced novel heralds an exciting new voice in fiction. Big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with Jay Porter, a struggling personal injury attorney down on his luck, who suddenly finds himself in a situation spiralling out of control. After rescuing a woman from the Bayou one night after hearing gunshots and cries for help, Jay soon finds himself in a web that weaves together g...

Celia's mother died bringing her into the world - when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi's second husband Roman, a man so low he could crawl under a snake's belly on stilts. Celia thinks he's the devil, and one day he does something to prove her right, so she runs away to Trinidad and a new life in service. A lyrically beautiful story, Amanda Smyth's writin...

Built on an inverted forest, paved with a tortoiseshell of boulders, Venice is a maze of tiny alleys, bridges and squares. Tiziano Scarpa wanders through the city, recounting the customs and secrets that only Venetians know. Beware the buckets on the Zattere in springtime: the cuttlefish inside will squirt ink on your shoes, men must be prepared to carry their consorts at high tide, all must be able to make the sign of the devil with their toe...

Breakthrough book for a wonderful American writer which is a moving, psychologically acute and gorgeously written tale. This asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family, and how we take measure of our own sorrows in a world rife with suffering. 'Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane chroniclers of the mundane complexit...

From the bestselling author of The Middlesteins comes comes this unique novel about a forgotten heroine of the 1930s.Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery district of New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out the troublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze...

A profound novel tackling themes of unconventional families, adoption and class and racial tensions. Ideal for bookclubs.

Half Chinese and half Canadian, Katherine Goodnow struggles through a 1950´s childhood hostile to all she represents. Then, as a teenager, she discovers jazz, and her life is transformed. Her talent for the piano brings her freedom, adventure, and a sense of purpose, helping her survive unexpected motherhood and her incurable love for the unreliable father of her children. Half American and half Afghani, Mahsa Weaver is only twelve when, after...

A riveting debut novel of fathers and daughters and the conflict between duty and desire, set in Morocco and Barcelona.

Literary fiction following a loss adjuster for a insurance firm coming to terms with personal loss. From the author of "The Semantics Of Murder".

London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties are so popular. Everyone comes to Reggie's on a Sunday: ballet dancers and cabinet ministers, alongside homosexuals like Freddie. And when Freddie turns up dead on the Heath one Sunday night there is no shortage of suspects.

FAR SOUTH is the casebook of Juan Manuel Perez, an investigator in search of Gerardo Fischer, a Uruguayan theatre director who has gone missing. Called in by the community of artists with whom Gerardo lived, Perez quickly becomes enmeshed in the mystery. In searching for another, whether we want to or not, we often uncover knowledge of ourselves. Perez discovers he is no exception...A multi-platform experiment in the possibilities of digitised...