Paradise (Faber Stories) by Edna O'BRIEN
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich. 'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.' Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure ...Show more
Mostly Hero : Faber Stories by Anna Burns
$9.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with. Even before he discovered she had a spell on her he was distrustful of her. He didn't want to be, but that's just how it goes. Written by Anna Burns before she ...Show more
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: RC
"Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title ...Show more
Carried Away by Alice Munro
$42.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Set in her native southwest Ontario, they include "Royal Beatings", in which a young girl, her father and her stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; "Friend of My Youth", in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so ...Show more
Cat Person and Other Stories/You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'If you enjoyed Cat Person, this is for you' Evening Standard The truth was that if a woman bit a man in an office environment, there would be a strong assumption that the man had done something to deserve it . . . From the creator ofCat Person- the first short story to go viral - comes Cat Person and O ...Show more
After Australia by Sweatshop Anthology
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: edited Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
The Art Of The Glimpse - 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinead Gleeson (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpseis a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld (Editor); Heidi Pitlor (Editor)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year. New York Times best-selling author of five novels and a short story collection Curtis Sittenfeld, called "one of the finest observers of human nature writing today" by Glamour, guest edits The Be ...Show more
Selected Stories Volume One: 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle ...Show more
Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy
Grief, loss, pain, love, and the future - an achingly human debut short story collection, from the winner of the 2019 Richell Prize. 'Thrilling, prescient, and deeply moving ... an electrifying new voice in Australian fiction.' Emily Bitto 'clear eyes, sharp intellect and deep sorrow - both lament and p ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer
$35.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent ...Show more