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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  George Eliot

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this Century England assembles more of the world’s territories, people and materials for her own Empire.  The arts also flourish with names in this volume that are bywords for talent beyond the reach of almost all other writers.  An ever hungry audience demands yet more and more. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The English - An Introduction 
  2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 
  3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 
  4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  5 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  8 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  9 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  10 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  11 - Father Giles of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope 
  12 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

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  Maids A Milking - Twelve Days of...

  Stuart MacBride

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  Eighth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  Brian’s about to discover that life as a drug dealer can have hidden benefits. But he might come to wish he’d never taken advantage of them… 
  Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, presents Maids A Milking, a top bestseller. This hard-boiled detective story, filled with black humour, takes us into the thrilling world of a drug dealer, revealing a mystery that is as dark as it is humorous. 
  For fans of Ian Rankin (Standing in Another Man's Grave), Mark Billingham (Cry Baby), and Michael Connelly (The Law of Innocence).

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  Shells on the Beach

  Maria K

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  A new anthology by writer and translator Maria K., including all three "Nightmare Hunters " stories, holiday specials "Yuletide with Meem" and Madam Enigma", and a brand new tale "A Mermaid's Song".

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  The Wing Orderly's Tales

  Carlo Gébler

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  'It's jail,' I said. 'Don't expect better of anybody in jail. Expect worse.' Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Loanend, where inmate Harold 'Chalky' Chalkman – serving twelve for a violent assault, and lucky not to have been done for attempted murder – works as the orderly to 'E' and 'F' wings. Burning with authenticity, The Wing Orderly's Tales is about damnation and redemption, humour and darkness, and the slivers of humanity that survive in even the harshest environments.

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  Electric Dreams: Seven...

  Deborah A. Bailey

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  A collection of speculative fiction stories set in future worlds from Earth to the far reaches of the solar system. At the intersection of technology and humanity, what could happen?  
  Electric Schemes – A frustrated employee plugs himself into his computer everyday in his boring job, but when his micromanaging boss tries to get him fired, his computer decides to take charge by managing his career.  
  Between the Mirror and the Heart – A robot is ordered as a lover for a human woman, and as he adapts to his humanity, he realizes his human buyer is having second thoughts about their relationship.  
  On the Beach – The last caretaker of a lonely space station must stay there alone for three months to shut down the systems, so the station computers come up with a plan so that she’ll have company.  
  Stranger in Town – Desperate to survive in the harsh 21st century dystopia, a mother agrees to be a mail-order bride to rich foreign businessmen, but what will she have to sacrifice in order to provide for her family?  
  When Words Leave Off – During a deep space mission, what else is there for two officers to do except fall in love?  
  Roots of Deception & A Place in the World – On a faraway world, a woman must decide what she’s willing to risk in order to guide her planet to peace after a devastating war and military occupation. Caught between personal sacrifice and self-interest, she discovers that achieving absolute power always comes with a price.

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  Tell the Octopus and other Short...

  Jonathan Day

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  People aspire to make the world a better place in many ways. Some decorate any ugly space that offends the eye, another might take up justice's flaming sword and sally forth to tilt at windmills. 
  All good intentions come at a cost. Some are rewarded, others demand the ultimate price. 
  All these stories are free to read at www.booksfromdodo.uk

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