Publisher Description
This short story collection has the very best in unpredictable endings. Prize-winning authors from Chekhov to Julian Barnes tell stories full of hermits, sacred bogs, werewolves, divine ferrets, and the unexpected.
- Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov read by Helen Bradbury
- Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish read by Christopher Starkie
- The Truck to Berlin by Hassan Blasim read by Raad Rawi
- Bark by Julian Barnes read by Richard Baker
- The Orphan and the Mob by Julian Gough read by Charlie de Bromhead
- Vegetarian in France by Michele Roberts read by Jenny Funnell
- Hermit Wanted by Mick Jackson read by Prunella Scales
- Layla's Nose Job by Nicola Barker read by Louise Ford
- Sredni Vishtar by Saki read by Michael Malarkey
- Dazzle by Scott Bradfield read by William Roberts
- Like Mother Used to Make by Shirley Jackson read by Guy Paul
- A Great Event by Vikas Swarup read by James Russell
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About Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of numerous novels, as well as several books of short stories and collections of journalism. In addition to the Man Booker Prize, his other honors include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; and in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.