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At last—at long
last—here is the return
of the short story.
Collections of short
stories, as a genre in
their own right, have
long since disappeared
from publication in the
UK.
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Short Stories
The following collections have been published through the agency of Diadem Books:
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Darkness to
Light
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UK price:
£6.99
US price:
$10.40 Format: Paperback Publisher: Diadem Books Size : 20.3 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm Pages: 138 ISBN: 978-1907294075 Published: Sep-2009 |
A new collection of Beth Richards' inspiring poems and prose pieces (short stories).
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
My aim in this book of poems and prose is to reach out to a number of readers – therefore I’ve written about many different subjects, which will almost certainly touch the hearts of many. Maybe some of the subjects will even help someone with a similar problem in his or her life to find a solution – a form of self-help!
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THE MIRACLE OF PENELOPE JANE & Other Stories  by Lesley Drinkwater |
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UK price:
£8.50 US price:
$23.00 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback:
ISBN: 978-1-4092-7921-1
Publisher: Diadem Books
Edition: First Edition
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FIFTEEN EASY TALES and Strange Stories by Bryan H. George |
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UK price:
£7.99 US price:
$16.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback:
ISBN: 978-0-9559852-2-5
Publisher: Diadem Books
Edition: First Edition
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Humour
and irony combine to
give piquancy to these
15 short stories which
fall into three
different genres—Life’s
Tapestry; Village Tales;
Strange Happenings
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LIFE ON THE FARM by Robert Nice |
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UK price:
£7.98
US price: $13.77 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 4.25 x 6.88 Pages: 84 ISBN: 978-0-557-04271-5 Published: Feb-2009 |
“Big Bob” has big dreams
of retirement income as his intentions to learn
all about Christmas tree farming quickly give
way to the realities of merely coping with
everyday country problems. This book takes the
reader through scenes of hilarity in his naïve
approach to living Life on the Farm.
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LIGHT READING Reflections in Poetry and Prose by Beth Richards |
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UK price:
£8.96
US price: $16.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 140 ISBN: 978-0-9559852-9-4 Published: December-2008 |
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Beth Richards writes:
‘I’ve always maintained
that writing poetry (and
other forms of creative
writing) is a gift from
God.’ Here, again, the
creative muse continues
to inspire Beth—hence
this latest book of
short stories and poetry
entitled Light
Reading.
(Discerning readers
will, of course,
appreciate the pun on
the word Light,
hopefully made clearer
by Beth’s oil painting
of the Baccaro
Lighthouse, in Nova
Scotia, on the front
cover!)
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The Alphabet Wars by Raf Erzeel |
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UK price:
£6.95
US price: $12.95 Format: Paperback Size : 9" x 6" Pages: 128 ISBN: 978-0-9559852-0-1 Published: Dec-2008 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS |
Imagination runs riot in these unexpected tales without human protagonists. Objects and concepts seem more than willing to share their emotions, though.
| A Nation In Flames: Short Stories WITH A GOTHIC, MILITARY & SF FLAVOUR |
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UK price: £6.00
US price: $10.95
Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9 Pages: 118 ISBN: 0-595-47889-1 Published: Nov-2007 |
Startling stories with a Gothic flavour in the tradition of the Hammer House of Horror movies! Vampires, death, pain, darkness, war and a bit of hope combine to make these stories gripping and memorable.
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Swollen Ankles & Blowfish Kisses by Maria Emami |
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UK price: £15.99
US price: $26.95 |
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This is a rich collaboration of personal stories, which will provide some insight, entertainment and information for the all-expectant mothers. These personal baby stories written in the mother’s voice share actual issues of concern and provide recommended solutions and survival tactics.
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Tommy One |
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UK price: £7.99
US price: $12.95 |
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A collection of hilarious tales about the actions and reactions of a ‘cockney kid’ to his imposed life in a rural landscape during his six years of World War Two. His thoughts, fears and imaginings, broken by loss, lust, brutality and learning.
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Tears, Kisses & Goodbyes : A Collective of Tales
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Our price: £7.37
US price: $13.95 |
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A collection of short stories that touch your heart with laughter and tears, delight and despair. A journey through life in one small book.
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by Richard Brock
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Other Formats: Hard
Cover
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A collection of short stories of romance, violence, bigotry, self-discovery and therapeutic genealogy set over a century-and-a-half of British industrial history!
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Life’s not all Wine and Roses! |
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US
price: $9.95
UK
price: £8.99 |
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A Year in Provence was an excellent read, but here are slices of life from a market-town in Southern France, seen from the inside.
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Solomon Had It Easier |
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US
price: $15.95
UK
price: £13.99 |
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The stories in this collection are eminently entertaining and amusing, conveying the considered verdicts of a Yorkshire Judge well past retiring age with a sense of humour that is both exquisitely dry and nicely understated.
Long
Skis // Short Stories
by Kurt
Larson
US
price: $13.95
UK price £11.99
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 204
ISBN: 0-595-23618-9
Publication Date: Jul-2002
These are absorbing stories that crystalize the essence of
skiing, from the spectacular winter wilderness of Upper Michigan, the
Rockies, the Highlands of Scotland
and the Alps.
Rooikraal
Revisited: Farming During Apartheid. Though
Dylan Weston now lives in California, the
colorful and often humorous stories she has written in this collection
come out of her direct experience of life on two farms in South Africa
during the Apartheid years. They are interesting not only for
the characters and situations they describe, but for the light they shed
on an historical era now forever (many will say thankfully!) consigned
to the past. Writers Club
Press.
ISBN 0-595-09180-6 PRICE: $10.95 U.S. £9.41 U.K.
Roy
Holland: News From Parched Mountain: Tales from the Karoo in
the new South
Africa.
Publisher: Writers Club Press 
ISBN 0-595-14612-0 US Price $13.95 UK Price: £9.75
Description: These stories eloquently portray the life of a small Afrikaner town - with humour and pithy comments on the ills of modern society. Holland's style is a combination of P G du plessis and A C Bosman.
Roy
Holland: Pivot of Violence : Tales of the New South
Africa
Publisher: Writers Club Press
ISBN: 0-595-15821-8
US Price $12.95 UK
Price: £11.13
Description: Short Stories highlighting the tensions
and dramatic racial conflicts in post-Apartheid South Africa.
Roy Holland:
Flakes of Dark and Light: Tales from
Southern Africa and Elsewhere
Publisher: Writers Club Press
ISBN: 0-595-17423-X
US price: $14.95 UK Price: £12.85
Description: Pithy stories that cover the England of the Thirties to the South Africa of the Nineties.
Roy
Holland: Just A Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective.
Publisher: Writers Club Press
ISBN: 0-595-15874-9
UK
Price: £8.55
US Price: $9.95
Description: So many of Roy Holland's characters seem to be 'a bit touched', as one of them says of his family. That's why his tales are so colourful, amusing and absorbing. The stories themselves are 'touched' by many perspectives - historical to anti-utopian.
Filton
Hebbard: Memories of Kalgoorlie
Publisher: Writers Club Press
ISBN: 0-595-19134-7
UK
Price: £17.10
US Price:
$19.95
Description: Picaresque and vivid stories told
with humour and pathos, which reveal the stark realities, the swift,
sometimes cruel justice of the bush in the old mining days of Western
Australia.
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