Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
So here we go, into the dark. Some things can't be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not. The characters in this collection find their aspirations for h ...Show more
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unim ...Show more
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: this collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect present for any fiction lover.
Elegy for Easterly (Faber Stories) by P. GAPPAH
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be dest ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Shirley Hazzard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected ...Show more
The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of stories written by the late Carlos Ruiz Zafan as a thank you to the countless fans of his bestselling The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits books Return to the mythical Barcelona library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, in this posthumous collection of stories from Ca ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman, John Freeman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, th ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah,Sara Saleh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures. Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, an ...Show more
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by Lyse Doucet; Lucy Hannah (editors)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream"A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies nursing ...Show more