Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
by Alice Munro | 
Vintage Munro
by Alice Munro | 
Traplines
by Eden Robinson | 
The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Stories
by W. P. Kinsella | 
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories
by Mavis Gallant | 
Bang Crunch
by Neil Smith | 
Greedy Little Eyes
by Billie Livingston | 
The Withdrawal Method
by Pasha Malla | 
All the Anxious Girls on Earth
by Zsuzsi Gartner | 
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
by Vincent Lam | 
Overhead in a Balloon
by Mavis Gallant | 
Dressing Up for the Carnival
by Carol Shields | 
The Pegnitz Junction
by Mavis Gallant | 
When She Was Queen
by M. G. Vassanji | 
Small Change
by Elizabeth Hay | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin |
Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father's health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer's quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.