Uncommon Type: Some StoriesA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. Comes with exclusive extras to Goldsboro Books: two postcards and a bookmark. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. A small town newspaper columnist

Van Winkle returns to his village where he recognizes no one

It is a place of beanbags

they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason

Ewan and Colby discover that the creatures from this previous life have not forgotten them

Utterly compelling Peter James

the god of brine and fog

They should leave well alone

In such instances

The day they've all been waiting for is at hand

find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep

And from the far north

ambition and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability