Common People by Tony Birch
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more
Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy
Grief, loss, pain, love, and the future - an achingly human debut short story collection, from the winner of the 2019 Richell Prize. 'Thrilling, prescient, and deeply moving ... an electrifying new voice in Australian fiction.' Emily Bitto 'clear eyes, sharp intellect and deep sorrow - both lament and p ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer
$35.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent ...Show more
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only stolen kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2020 by Curtis Sittenfeld (Editor); Heidi Pitlor (Editor)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year. New York Times best-selling author of five novels and a short story collection Curtis Sittenfeld, called "one of the finest observers of human nature writing today" by Glamour, guest edits The Be ...Show more
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books ...Show more
The Hunter and Other Stories of Men by David Cohen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a dementia care facility in Düsseldorf suffers its own identity crisis; a young man's new job requires him to pose as a woodcutter and wave at a trainload of to ...Show more
The True Colour of the Sea by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean's unrelenting power. But what is its true colour?A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hiding brutal scars. Uneasy descendants of a cannibal victi ...Show more
A Chinese Affair by Isabelle Li
$27.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Sixteen exquisite stories exploring recent Chinese migration to Australia and elsewhere, exploring intergenerational and interracial relationships, the search for meaning, and the effects of isolation and the inability to express oneself in a second language. Best-selling author, Debra Adelaide, says Is ...Show more
Madame Zero : 9 Stories by Sarah Hall
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
She is running and becoming smaller, running and becoming smaller, running in the light of the reddening sun, the red of her hair and her coat falling, the red of her fur and her body loosening. Running. Holding behind her a sudden, brazen object, white-tipped. Her yellow scarf trails in the briar. All ...Show more
The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing it can never be is dull. Now Victoria Hislop has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume. Here are Man Booker Prize-winners and Nobel Laureates, feminists and ...Show more
Stone Mattress - Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman bo ...Show more