Anthologies & Short Stories
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Add to BasketJack And The Devil's Purse: Scottish Traveller Tales
£7.64
- Paperback - Birlinn
Devil stories are always fascinating, entertaining and disturbing. These 20 tales, re-told by one of Scotland's master storytellers, are a fascinating insight into traveller beliefs about evil, temptation and suffering in which the Devil exists not to punish, but to outwit you in a contest of intelligence and knowledge. -
Add to BasketJekyll And Hyde, The Secret Sharer, And Transformation: Three Tales Of Doubles
£3.99
- Hardback - Longman
From Longman's 'Cultural Editions' series, come three tales of transformation - Mary Shelley's 'Transformation', Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' and Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer'. Each text has been annotated and given a scholarly introduction. -
Add to BasketJimmy Swan, The Joy Traveller
£6.79
- Paperback - Birlinn
Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveller, is another comic character from the pen of Neil Munro. The result of Swan's experiences give an insight into life in the West of Scotland at the turn of the century. -
Add to BasketThe Junk Yard: Voices From An Irish Prison
£5.09
- Paperback - Mainstream
A writer's workshop for young offenders at Dublin's Mountjoy Prison is the source of this collection of 15 original Irish stories. They include Kenno's loss of his parents to drug-related AIDS and Yogi's heroin addiction.
