'It was Lucia night and Bella had just arrived by train at Enköping station when a car pulled up in front of her. In the driver's seat sat Lottie with Daniel next to her and Ollie ...

Gabriel is at home with his family for Christmas. As the snow falls outside the window, he and cousins Fabian and Rebecca are in charge of baking all the Christmas goodies. But Gab ...

''His gaze alternated between looking into her eyes, looking at the gap formed at the knot of the towel and at the hand hidden under the terry towel.' Hannah, a successful business ...

'Ciaran is standing up on a stage, the audience is boiling. In front of him are five women, on their knees, with their Lucia headscarves pulled up. His task is to get them all to c ...

'It's just days before Christmas and Jennie has come to Stockholm to look for something. Something that is forbidden and that he might be able to help her with. His name is Franz a ...

'Nils is on his way up to Rovaniemi. It's time for an intense period of work before Christmas, when all the Christmas presents have to be distributed. He is sitting in his train co ...

'It's Christmas time. Just like the first St Stephan once did, Stephan has a tradition of riding around the village with his men to be invited to the farms. This year he will visit ...

''For sin is real. Sin is corruptible. Sin is fleeting. Sin is permanent. Sin is everything.' Regina is tormented by remorse as she lusts after Ethan, her best friend's husband. In ...

All the students have left the corridor and gone home to their families. All except Sandra and Anton. They decide to celebrate Christmas together in the corridor's shared kitchen, ...

'When Susan's son cancels this year's Christmas celebrations for the sake of his partner's family, she decides to take charge of her own happiness. She stumbles across an opportuni ...

'Neah comes home after three years in Australia to a Christmas celebration with her best friends from her youth. Of course, she notices Nadia the most, who is lovelier than ever. T ...

'Olof is about to celebrate Christmas in his hometown and the anxiety is real. His old friend Tess has asked him to go to the homecoming party in town and Olof is terrified of bump ...

Set in Munich, this is a delightful short story from much-loved author Anthony Trollope. Young English bank clerk Herbert Onslow is working for small German banking firm Heine Brot ...

Kosrouschah the Sultan overhears three sisters daydreaming about their future husbands: the eldest wishes to marry the Sultan’s baker so she would never go hungry; the second wishe ...

As the people of Persia celebrate the new year, an Indian stranger arrives at the Sultan’s court, riding a wooden horse. More than just a mechanical marvel, this horse has the powe ...

Before Ali Cogia goes on a pilgrimage to Mecca, he hides a thousand pieces of gold in a jar of olives, and leaves it for safekeeping with a neighbour. But after seven years, the ne ...

Sidi-Nouman is happy with his new wife, Amina, except for one thing: her strange way of eating just a few grains of rice at each meal. One night, hearing her slip out of the house, ...

Baba-Abdalla has worked his whole life to increase the fortune he was born with, and now owns eighty camels. On one of his business trips, he comes across a poor dervish, who revea ...

Haroun-al-Raschid is the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph of Bagdad – and nearly dying of boredom. Looking for amusement, Haroun and his vizir Giafar (a kinder figure than in ...

Everyone knows the story of Aladdin and the genie of the lamp, thanks to the Disney film adaptations starring Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried in the 1992 animated feature, and ...

What makes for an ideal slave-girl: beauty alone, or intelligence as well? Unfettered by political correctness, King Zinebi decides to settle the question by giving his vizir 10,00 ...

Everyone has imagined the boy or girl of their dreams – but what would happen if they appeared in the middle of the night, and disappeared in the morning? Camaralzaman is prince of ...

Vägar och villstig är en novellsamling av den norske författaren Olav Duun. Samlingen består av Duuns överlägset bästa noveller och är ett stort verk i denna genre i norsk litterat ...

Under uppväxten hade det varit en tradition att besöka farbror några veckor under sommarledigheten och njuta av sol och bad vid medelhavet. Men det var inte bara värmen som lockade ...

'Nicks händer sökte sig till Martikas kropp. Smeksamt följde de kurvorna, där hon låg under honom. Sökte sig in under tröjan och fann hennes ena bröst.'Martika är på väg hem till s ...