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
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories by Laura van den Berg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.comAs enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exqui ...Show more
Polluted Sex by Lauren Foley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
**Shortlisted, The Barbellion Prize****Shortlisted, The Irish Book Awards**A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK.A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend.Two ungendered characters contest the same female body.A deserted wife takes a lover ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murder ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories by Various
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices ...Show more
The Siren's Lament - Essential Stories by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
The Window Seat (First Nations Classics) by Archie Weller, Ernie Dingo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Runner-up for the inaugural Vogel Award in 1980, Archie Weller is a master storyteller. In these short stories, take a seat and rethink what it means to be Australian.Since Archie Weller was runner-up for the first Vogel Award in 1980 for his novel The Day of the Dog, he has become an important voice in ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories by Sean O'Beirne
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new Australia - and into a very frightening future. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most important and influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Julian BarnesThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNESW ...Show more
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life - immersive, comic and unsparing - by an indisputable talent. Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodia ...Show more