Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is m ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
Born for You by Magdalena McGuire
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from child to adult, from certainty to uncertainty. In twelve distinct but spiritually interwoven stories, we meet women at the crossroads of change. A new mother learns about love in a pandemic ...Show more
Thrillville, USA - Stories by Taylor Koekkoek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Paris Review.An amusement park employee overdoses after eating the gel of a fentanyl patch. Two homeless me ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise! One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who ...Show more
The Penguin New Zealand Anthology: 50 Stories for 50 Years in Aotearoa by Harriet Allan (editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A milestone collection to celebrate a milestone event - To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This anthology brings together 50 enthralling stories from some of the country's finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these stories track the changing styles, ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century’s most influential short story writer. SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNES Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever - variously referred to as ‘Ovid in Ossining’ and the ‘Chekhov of the suburbs’ - foreve ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because ...Show more
Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories by Lauren Groff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Winner: Sydney Morning Heral ...Show more
I Hear You're Rich: Stories by Diane Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'The writer who saved my life - or my soul.' Merve Emre, The New Yorker 'A true living hero of the American avant-garde.' Jonathan Franzen 'One of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt.' Lydia Davis A new collection of stories from th ...Show more