The Snobs
by Muriel Spark | 
Runaway
by Alice Munro | 
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami | 
The Thing Around Your Neck
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 
Stone Mattress
by Margaret Atwood | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
Dear Life
by Alice Munro | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro | 
Forty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel | 
The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Short Cuts
by Raymond Carver | 
Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Fierce and Beautiful World
by Andrey Platonov | 
City Solipsism: A Short Story
by Zack Love | 
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
by Margaret Atwood |
From the cruel irony of 'A Member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability.