Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labels | 1993 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
| 2 | Gunter Weber’s Confession | 1998 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
| 3 | The Death of Miss Agatha Feakes | 2011 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
| 4 | The Girt Pike | 2011 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
| 5 | Talking to George | 2011 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
| 6 | Station Jim | 2019 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
| 7 | A Day Out For Mehmet Erbil | 2020 | Louis de Bernieres | Buy |
These individually published short stories and novellas span nearly three decades of Louis de Bernieres’ career. Labels (1993) was an early standalone publication that appeared between his Latin American novels and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Gunter Weber’s Confession (1998) returns to the setting of Cephalonia during World War II, offering a German soldier’s perspective that complements Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
Several of the 2011 titles, including The Death of Miss Agatha Feakes, The Girt Pike, and Talking to George, were released as individual digital shorts. These stories tend toward the English rural settings that also appear in de Bernieres’ collection Notwithstanding. Station Jim (2019) is a novella about a stray dog adopted by a Victorian railway station, with illustrations by the author himself. A Day Out For Mehmet Erbil (2020) returns to the cross-cultural themes of his longer fiction.
These shorter works are distinct from his collected volumes like Notwithstanding and Labels and Other Stories, though some overlap exists. Readers who enjoy de Bernieres’ novels will find the same mix of humor, historical detail, and character-driven storytelling in a more compact form.