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Wilkie Collins was one of Victorian England's best-loved and best-selling authors, and a crime-fiction pioneer. His enthralling 'sensation novels' such as The Woman in White paved the way for today's thrillers and his tour de force The Moonstone is one of the first, and greatest, modern-detective stories. This collection features dramatisations of these two masterpieces, with star casts including Toby Stephens (The Woman in White) and John Sharp (The Moonstone). Also included are adaptations of three of Collins' other major novels.

What We Pick Up is the gripping debut story collection from Portland author and screenwriter Stacy Brewster. In these 11 tightly-wound stories, Brewster turns cliches of boyhood and manhood on their heads, revealing the trappings and failures of American masculinity when viewed from any angle, especially a queer one. Brewster's stories of fathers, sons, brothers, and lovers - gay, bi, trans, queer - all manage to mix dark humor, earnest pathos, and a quiet reserve of hope to re-envision a different path forward for all of us.

These 20 short stories were written from 2006 to 2013 by Thomas Leverett, who spent years teaching ESL - thus learning to scorn flourish and pretension in writing. His stories are bold and memorable

A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard. Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens...