Short, sometimes sweet and often strange, here are seven great stories by some of the best writers from around the world...

Anne Enright
Yoko Ogawa
David Szalay
Nadifa Mohamed
Andrey Kurkov
Yael van der Wouden
and Roddy Doyle

The Booker Prizes celebrate the world’s best fiction. In this book, Roddy Doyle, who won in 1993, has chosen a range of brilliant stories written by other winners and nominees. Discover short stories that give us whole worlds.

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