Red Can Origami by Madelaine Dickie
$14.99 AUD
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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
Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. A bickeri ...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
Cosmopolitan (Faber Stories) by Akhil Sharma
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Even her nostrils suggested a frank sexuality. Gopal wanted to put his hands on her waist and pull her toward him. And then he realized that he had. Gopal Maurya's wife has left him, preferring ...Show more
Fairy Tales by Marianne Moore
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2021: A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A son becomes enthralled in his father’s quest for treasure. A young woman is blamed for an unfathomable act. Teenagers break into an airfield. Strangers meet in the night. The world is thrown into chaos when people spontaneously combust.New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct ex ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust by Patrick McGuinness (editor)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A major new celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries 'Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here...' The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly t ...Show more
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary by David Sedaris
$19.98 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the ...Show more
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the hear ...Show more
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe. "Complex, daring, emotional, and unique, with notes of melancholic brilliance and an aftertaste of subt ...Show more