All the Unloved by Susan McCreery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Is it a painting? Is it a poem? No, it's a novella as an act of prestidigitation. And it will become a classic. In a fresh, free, engaging style, Susan McCreery explores the histories - tragic, comic, mundane - of lives in a Bondi apartment block. The camera angles of the elegant, sensual prose shift a ...Show more
Anonymous Sex by Hillary Jordan & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity… A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference · Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire · In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be · A young ...Show more
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Erato the Mid-nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty – from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century – is the focus of this impressive volume. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth century novels is in ...Show more
Ayiti - Short Stories by Roxane Gay
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$29.99 (30% off)
Category: Short Stories
From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mo ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Being Various - New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started by the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors Kevin Barry, Deirdre Madden and Joseph O'Connor. Co ...Show more
Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pul ...Show more
Blue in Chicago by Bette Howland
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'One of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow 'Her prose is cooler than a cocktail and sharper than a Japanese knife . . . Nora Ephron meets Lorrie Moore, which is about as good as it gets.' Observer Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland an ...Show more
Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories by Bette Howland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted wr ...Show more
Born Into This by Adam Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from Indigenous rangers trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and co ...Show more
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience. Two fourteen year-old girls steal a baby from a shopping centre to play single mothers for the day. A gangster’s girlfriend wonders what to do with the pa ...Show more
Collisions: Fictions Of The Future:An Anthology Of Australian Writers OfColour by Leah Jing McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This collection of short stories showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer in this new decade. Featuring work from both emerging and established writers of colour, the stories in Collisions transcend genre and experiment with style. They are necessary reading for everybody ...Show more