Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection

Author: Rendell, Ruth, Boyd, William, Murakami, Haruki, Simpson, Helen, O'Brien, Patrick, McTeer, Janet, Jar

Literature & literary studies

Published on 26 October 2006 by CANONGATE BOOKS LTD (CSA WORD) in the United Kingdom.

With this rich range of unabridged stories we celebrate the very best of contemporary writers and writing.

Among others the collections features thriller writer Ruth Rendell, witty William Boyd, the Japanese literary sensation Haruki Murakami, ever-inventive Helen Simpson, and Patrick O'Brien, world-famous for his nautical series.

Readers include top British actors Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres and Janet McTeer.