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Bookworms Collection are themed collections of unabridged and unadapted short stories for advanced readers. Each book contains biographical information about the authors, notes on the texts, help with vocabulary, and language activities.

		AND ALL FOR LOVE Edited by Diane Mowat and Jennifer Bassett Stories by Maeve Binchy, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, H.E. Bates, Graham Greene, Fay Weldon, Patricia Highsmith, John Morrison, Somerset Maugham look at human relationships and some of the sad, appalling, or surprising things that are done in name of love.

		THE EYE OF CHILDHOOD Edited by John Escott and Jennifer Bassett These stories by John Updike, Graham Greene, William Boyd, Susan Hill, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Penelope Lively, Bernard McLaverty, Frank Tuohy, Morley Callaghan explore life from a child's perspective, and show that the world can be a strange, baffling, and sometimes very frightening place.

		A WINDOW ON THE UNIVERSE Edited by Jennifer Bassett Nine science-fiction stories by some of the best-known writers of the genre including Ray Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, and John Wyndham offer some thought-provoking possibilities.

		CRIME NEVER PAYS Edited by Clare West Crime never pays... or does it? Short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L Sayers, Patricia Highsmith, and Graham Greene, where murder is committed... with varying results.

		FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE Edited by Clare West Authors such as Saki, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Dahl, Raymond Carver, and Somerset Maugham look at youth, marriage, parenthood and new relationships in later life, in stories that each have a unique twist.

		A TANGLED WEB Edited by Christine Lindop and Alison Sykes-McNulty Ten stories that ask 'Is deception always wrong? Can hiding or distorting the truth sometimes have good effects, adding to the sum of human happiness?'