Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

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Discover Alice Munro’s remarkable early stories.

‘Alice Munro’s stories are miraculous’ Sunday Times

The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger, and reconciliation, as they contend with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wasted
Daily Telegraph

About Alice Munro

Alice Munro was born in 1931 and was the author of thirteen collections of stories and the novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro died in 2024.

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