Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. In the luminous title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece ...Show more
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A wom ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (HB) by Shirley Hazzard
$39.99 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short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.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 Collect ...Show more
Turbulence by David Szalay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A woman strikes up a conversation with the man sitting next to her on a plane after some turbulence. He returns home to tragic news that has also impacted another stranger, a shaken pilot on his way to another continent who seeks comfort from a journalist he meets that night. Her life shifts subtly as w ...Show more
Fly Already: Stories by Etgar Keret
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the worl ...Show more
Funny Ha, Ha by Paul Merton (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to have a laugh. Here, award-winning comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton brings tog ...Show more
My Son the Fanatic by Hanif Kureishi
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house. When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Pa ...Show more
Red Can Origami by Madelaine Dickie
$14.99 AUD
Category: Sale items
Ava has just landed a job as a reporter in Gubinge, a tiny tropical town in Australia's north.Gubinge has a way of getting under the skin. Ava is hooked on the thrill of going hand-to-hand with barramundi, awed by country, and stunned by pindan sunsets. But a bitter collision between a native title grou ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
What You Might Find - Short Stories by Richard Holt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Richard Holt's flash fiction has been selected for three National Flash Fiction Day anthologies published by Gumbo Press. His work combines unique storytelling voices, finely crafted stories and an appreciation of the particular constraints and possibilities of flash fiction.' CALUM KERR, Director of N ...Show more
Good Will Come from the Sea by Christos Ikonomou; Karen Emmerich (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Seeking to escape the paralysing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian friends move to an Aegean island in the hopes of starting over. Viewed with suspicion and disdain by the locals, they soon find themselves enmeshed in the same vicious cycle of money, power, and violence they thou ...Show more