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Profiled by The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and frequently published in the likes of Granta, Harper¿s, The Paris Review, the London Review of Books, and The White Review, Diane Williams is the most significant flash fiction writer in the US today. Literary reviewers, editors, booksellers, and readers will know her name and be delighted that she is finally being published in the UK. For readers of Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, Kathryn Sc...

WARNING ! This book will change your life ! Diane's story is a tribute to the human spirit in the face of adversity. Her remarkable journey grips you from the first page to the last, as she faces the knowledge of a large brain tumour and the truths about herself. BrainStorm is a testament, a poetic story of the courage and indomitable spirit of a woman who recovers amazingly from brain surgery, faces her demons and changes her life. I...

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Diane Williams, “godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant stories.In Williams’ stories, life is newly alive and dangerous, whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally bo...

Have you ever been bullied? Well, it is not a pleasant experience. You could be bullied by someone you know or by a stranger. And this bully may hurt you by saying mean words or by hurting you physically when this bully hits you or pushes you down. Today, our story begins with a boy who is in kindergarten, and he is playing outside during recess. His name is Zane. And Zane is usually a happy five-year-old boy. But today, another boy has taken ...

The profession of life coaching is more necessary than ever in this time of pandemic-related uncertainty, the shift (in some cases, permanent) to remote learning and working, and the constant change that accompanies world events. With his best-selling Therapist as Life Coach, Patrick Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in the first and second editions of Becoming a Professional Life Coach, he and Dian...

Diane Williams, an American master of the short story who will "rewire your brain" (NPR), is back with a collection in which she once again expands the possibilities of fiction.These stories depict ordinary moments-a visit to the doctor's office or a married couple's hundredth dance together-but within the quotidian, Williams delivers a lifetime of insecurities, lusts, rejections, and revelations, making her work equally discomfiting and amusi...

After escaping a world of chaos and anxiety in Chicago, Lena finds herself on Prince Edward Island. As a fugitive from justice, she enters an atmosphere of secrecy and strangeness. She moves into her new home only to find she's not alone. Before she can find happiness, a haunted house and a murder stand in her way. She is desperate to solve the murder mystery alone until she meets a trusted friend and a private investigator named Jack Grant. T...

Follow Tammy as she tries to deal with the death of her mother and begin a life with a new family all in one day. Tammys whole life changes. She has to adapt to a new environment and a new school. She was used to her mom taking care of her, but now she had to take care of herself. Tammy comes from a family who believes in prayer and putting their faith in God to a family that doesnt pray or believe in God. Since Tammy has been with her new fam...

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Welcome to the colorful pond. The Midnight Butterfly is about a butterfly born without wings but learned how to fly out of fear. Read through this wonderful children's book to discover how butterflies fly.

Diane Williams, an American master of the short story who will "rewire your brain" (NPR), is back with a mind-bending new collection.Williams delivers visionary insights into what it means to be human in stories as short as one or two pages. Her startling sentences often function like wake-up trumpet blasts, and her latest collection of ultra-short masterworks is a container for the elliptical, the magisterial, the voluptuous, and the profane....

Seit den 1980er Jahren schreibt die New Yorker Autorin Diane Williams verstörende, ungenierte, feministische Flash Fiction. In extrem kurzen Stories richtet sie ihren ­unverwandten Blick auf Dinnerparty und Ehehölle, Shoppingtour und Psychoterror, Totenbett und Badezimmeridylle. Unmerklich aufgedrehte Alltagssituationen geraten zu grellen Schlüsselmomenten, trivial erscheinende Nebenbemerkungen zu monströsen Geständnissen - bis nach ­wenigen W...

The love, faith and friendship of Ruby Hope Valley continues as the children begin to grow into adulthood. Joseph Levi is determined to become a Veterinarian as Samuel John struggles to walk again. Betty Anne and Sara Jane are always there to help them through the tough times with their support. The adopted children, Jacob, Cindy, and Daisy, love the Amish way of life, and have no doubt where they belong.You will rejoice with the town's people...

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