The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

9 best books like The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (A.S. Byatt): The Baron in the Trees, How to Be a Woman, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Small Island, The Lonely Londoners, Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, The Other Side of Truth, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Under the Pendulum Sun

The Baron in the Trees

Author

Italo Calvino

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms

Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his...

How to Be a Woman

Author	Caitlin Moran
ISBN	0091940737

Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	0007149824

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...

Small Island

Author	Andrea Levy
ISBN	0312424671

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie,...

The Lonely Londoners

Author	Sam Selvon
ISBN	0582642647

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant life in London in the 1950s.

'His Lonely Londoners has acquired a classic status since it appeared in 1956 as the definitive novel about London's West Indians.' — Financial Times

'The...

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

Author	Candace B. Pert
ISBN	0684846349

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system?
In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers...

The Other Side of Truth

Author	Beverley Naidoo
ISBN	0064410021

After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but when they arrive, he is missing and they are abandoned, passed...

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Author

Greta Thunberg

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest...

Under the Pendulum Sun

Author	Jeannette Ng
ISBN	0857667270

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Catherine Helstone's brother, Laon, has disappeared in Arcadia, legendary land of the magical fae. Desperate for news of him, she makes the perilous journey, but once there, she finds herself alone...