From Nigeria to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. People everywhere have the same feelings of fear and pain, happiness and sadness. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world, and the eight stories in this book were selected from the winning entries in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. All the stories in this edition are from two previous Bookworms titles: Cries from the Heart and Songs from the Soul.


不管在奈及利亞、紐西蘭、亞買加、馬來西亞、印度，還是南非，感人故事不分國界，人性善惡也不分國界。恐懼、痛苦、喜樂和悲傷乃人之常情。Bookworms World Stories收錄世界各地以英文撰寫的故事，而在本書的八個故事，於2004年評選為全國短篇故事競賽得獎作品。而此版本的所有故事皆與Bookworms標題相關：Cries from the Heart及Songs from the Soul。