Kotirouva on väsynyt elämäänsä. Lapset ovat jo lähtemässä pesästä ja käyttävät kaiken aikansa riitelyyn. Mies on etäinen. Nainen on varma, että miehellä on suhde johonkin nuorempaa ...

Jo toukokuun puolivälistä saakka on ollut kuivaa. Ruohikko on muuttunut keltaiseksi, sääennustukset seuraavat toisiaan. Poutaa, aina poutaa. Muuan miehessä kuumuus ja kuivuus herät ...

Mitä tapahtuu, kun saarnamiehen oma tytär sairastuu vakavasti? Onko kuolema edelleen vain matka vapahtajan tykö? Entä kuinka käy vanhan miehen, joka ei ole ikinä oppinut tanssimaan ...

Kun nainen menee mökillä lähteelle, häntä odottaa kamala näky. Ihana lähde on saanut sateenkaaren värit. Miten mökkipihan lähteeseen on voinut päätyä öljyä? Onko joku kaatanut sitä ...

Familjen Greens tillvaro är en kaosartad historia. Att ensam ha koll på fyra barn är för Hanna omöjligt, men hennes make Itzhak är tyvärr av det latare slaget. Det är också därför ...

En samlingsvolym med 34 berättelser i varierande längd (s.k. litterära fjärtar, därav titel på boken). Genomgående mycket humor, som är det gemensamma temat i samtliga historier. ...

One night after a long day of ruler's duties, the young Tsar is visited in his sleep by a mysterious man whom he has never seen before. This man takes him on a dream journey to see ...

Sita dansar är en novellsamling om tio noveller, där författaren Jonny Martinsson skildrar sin bild av Indien, så som han sett och upplevt landet. Vissa av berättelserna är baserad ...

'– Jag har ätit små krokodiler, sade Vinge plötsligt.– Kro-kro, vad är det för något?– Krokodiler. Har Gurli verkligen aldrig hört talas om krokodiler? Tänk! Har Gurli aldrig hört ...

Med stövlarna på och andra berättelser är en novellsamling som utkom 1997. En av novellerna, Veranda för en tenor, filmatiserades 1998 i regi av Lisa Ohlin. ”Absolut gehör, skön ta ...

Jerry has been left in charge of a cable-rig across the Sacramento River when his father is forced to visit San Francisco. He is proud of his new responsibility, but when a surpris ...

Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but reac ...

Rediscover your childhood's favourite fairy tales or introduce a young reader to the magical world of one of the greatest storytellers, Hans Christian Andersen. Nearly two centurie ...

A good fairy tale needs a happy ending, and if he can’t provide one for the rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story of his sixth brother, the barber of Kashgar can at least add one to t ...

There are many ways to make a small fortune; the easiest is to start with a large one. Brought before the Sultan of Kashgar, a barber regales him with stories of his many brothers, ...

How many times can one man die? Surprisingly many, it turns out. Set in what is now the Xinjiang province of China, tensions between Muslims, Jews and Christians lead a series of i ...

Sindbad, now an old man, has finally learned his lesson, and sworn never to leave Bagdad. Yet when the Caliph demands that he return to Serendib (modern-day Sri Lanka), Sindbad has ...

Seized by wanderlust for a sixth time, even Sindbad begins to regret his restlessness when he’s shipwrecked on a seemingly barren island, and has to watch his crew starve to death. ...

Sindbad’s fifth voyage progresses from tragedy to farce when the crew of his ship first discover the egg of a roc – the giant eagles he escaped in his second voyage – and he is lat ...

Sindbad’s fourth voyage may not feature monsters or giant animals, but after being shipwrecked and befriending the hospitable islanders, he faces a different kind of horror: a trad ...

Setting out on the high seas again, Sindbad faces greater dangers in his third voyage than ever before, including pygmy pirates, a giant snake, and a one-eyed monster (based on the ...

After such lucky escapes from disaster as those in Sindbad’s first voyage, most people would probably choose to stay at home – but Sindbad is not most people. Going to sea a second ...

Many legends are told about whales so huge they are mistaken for islands, and wake up when sailors light a campfire on their backs, plunging into the depths and drowning the poor m ...

Sinbad the Sailor is among the most famous heroes of the Arabian Nights; his voyages have been adapted many times, including as Marvel comics and a Dreamworks film starring Brad Pi ...

'Tam o’ the Scoots' is a book that cannot help but stand out from the rest of Wallace’s fiction. In a good way, at that. It is a collection of ten short stories chronicling - in st ...