Trick of the Light by Laura Elvery
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An art teacher sends four of her students on a guerrilla mission. A young runner struggles to make sense of his best friend's death. A health-food company adopts a farcical promotional strategy. A factory worker spends her days applying radioactive paint to watches, while dreaming of a future with her n ...Show more
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A debut collection of stories in the tradition of George Saunders or Kelly Link that announced the arrival of a major new storytelling talent. Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated ...Show more
Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories by Wan Phing Lim
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a crime. A young girl steals her grandmother's jade bracelet. A Malay man collects the blonde hair of a British teenager he is transfixed with, and a young woman feeds human blood to a frangipani tree.There's right and wrong in this world. Or is there? This co ...Show more
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II vetera ...Show more
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, visionary blak+black fiction by Rafeif Ismail, Ellen van Neerven
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: 1st
In partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future.Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice speculative fiction from First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invis ...Show more
Watching Women & Girls by Danielle Pender
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
When you look at a woman, who do you see?"Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, too hidden, too much, not enough."A wedding day brings back memories of sisterhood and betrayals; a motorway service station burger bar is the site of explosive vio ...Show more
We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter
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Category: Short Stories
A HarperPerennial Paperback Original The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Short Stories
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
What Burns: Stories by Dale Peck
$25.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Award-winning novelist Dale Peck spans twenty-five years of writing, including two O. Henry award-winners and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize The stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality. ...Show more
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Whatever the neighbours insisted would be worth keeping a body for, he always responded that he would still prefer to live as data. A young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transition from an analogue body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a child - her own - from a go ...Show more
Witness by Jamel Brinkley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster ‘A dazzling collection by a masterful storyteller’ Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose ‘Read everything this man writes, and regard the world anew’ Justin Torres, author of We the Animals An electric new collection of stories set in co ...Show more
Women I Know by Katerina Gibson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.'My God darling - the women I know.'A young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her 'real' life diss ...Show more