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
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
Permafrost: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by SJ Norman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-to ...Show more
Travelling Companions by Antoni Jach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Antoni Jach takes one of the oldest of storytelling forms, the traveller who shares with us the tales of other travellers, and makes new magic from it. Travelling Companions is a joy from start to finish.’ — John Connolly, author of he: A Novel and the Charlie Parker series Solitary travellers and a c ...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
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today. Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from be ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short.' "The Turn of the Screw" tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in t ...Show more
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee; Heidi Pitlor
$36.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
"Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friends ...Show more
You Think It I'll Say It: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD: a dazzling, smart and razor-sharp first collection by the author of American Wife and Eligible. In 'The World Has Many Butterflies', a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I'll say it, putting into wor ...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