Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
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Category: Short Stories
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more
To Be a Man - Stories by Nicole Krauss
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Category: Short Stories
Deftly weaving from one end of life to another o from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illumina ...Show more
Lengthening Shadows (Short Stories) by Bob Franklin
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Category: Short Stories
The master of creeping unease and unrelenting consequences is back. The vain and the cruel, the indifferent and the excessive, across ten tales of cut corners and grubby compromise, Bob Franklin turns his fairground mirror on contemporary Australia, with a cast of characters navigating modern life and ...Show more
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven
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Category: Short Stories
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy
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Category: Short Stories
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience. Two fourteen year-old girls steal a baby from a shopping centre to play single mothers for the day. A gangster’s girlfriend wonders what to do with the pa ...Show more
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
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Category: Short Stories
Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage b ...Show more
This All Come Back Now : An anthology of First Nations speculative fiction by Mykaela Saunders
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Category: Short Stories
The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘this all come back’: all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the los ...Show more
Dark Roots (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
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Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 PREMIER'S QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS: AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION OPRAH MAGAZINE 'NEW VOICE OF THE MONTH' In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives -- m ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009 by Alice Munro
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Category: Short Stories
Covering the second 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 for Literature **'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, he ...Show more
Joiner Bay and Other Stories: Margaret River Short Story Competition: 2017 by Ellen Van Neerven
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Category: Short Stories
Now in its sixth year, the Margaret River Short Story Competition attracted over 200 entries from both established and emerging writers across Australia. Seventeen stories were selected for publication this year, by authors from Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, and New South Wales.