The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unim ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook by Christopher Sequiera (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
It is the year 1890. Sherlock Holmes' fame has spread even to the colonies as he and his stalwart chronicler, Dr. John Watson, are swept up in an array of mysteries "down under." They find themselves summoned from location to location, traversing all corners of the strange island continent of Australia, ...Show more
Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups by Ben Holden (ed.)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, challenges how we think ...Show more
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: this collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect present for any fiction lover.
Flight or Fright - 17 Turbulent Tales by Stephen King (ed.); Bev Vincent (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
$32.99 (15% off)
Category: Short Stories
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hil ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Mura ...Show more
Return to Paradise by Steve (INT) James A.; Berry Michener
$33.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
James A. Michener, the master of historical fiction, revisits the scenes of his first great work, Tales of the South Pacific, the Pulitzer Prize winner that brought him international acclaim. In this sequel collection, Michener once again evokes the magic of the extraordinary isles in the Pacific--from ...Show more
Fabulous Lives by Bindy Pritchard
$27.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Fabulous Lives is a collection of short stories spanning Australia and other continents. It embraces people with all their frailties and strengths, failures and hopes, as they reach critical junctures in their lives.Both funny and heart-rending, these 16 stories follow the struggles of life's outsiders- ...Show more
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah,Sara Saleh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures. Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, an ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' TelegraphThis landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musician ...Show more
Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
So here we go, into the dark. Some things can't be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not. The characters in this collection find their aspirations for h ...Show more
Being Various - New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Edited by prize-winning author and playwright Lucy Caldwell, Being Various brings together original stories from Ireland's current golden age of writing with some exciting new voices, never before published. Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the si ...Show more