Petit Mal by D. B. C. Pierre
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"If rape or arson, poison or the knife has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!" (Charles Baudelaire). If you are familiar with the explosive End Times Trilogy (Vernon God Little, Ludmila's Broken English, Lights Out in Wond ...Show more
Old Growth by John Kinsella
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this luminous book of new stories, John Kinsella drops us seamlessly into the worlds of men, women and children at pivotal moments in their lives. In the title story, a husband who has lost his wife plans to destroy the old-growth bush she loved and escape to the city, with alarming consequences. Els ...Show more
Best Summer Stories by Aviva Tuffield
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Brilliant short fiction from some of Australia's most talented storytellers A woman suspects her partner of murder. A father seeks to save his son from a looming disaster. A boy finds love in the heat of summer as a dust storm transforms his city and his fortunes. A guard in a detention centre causes t ...Show more
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and his award-winning second book, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short-story writers. In this third collection, That Old Country Music, we encounter a ragbag of west ...Show more
Giacomo Joyce (Faber Stories) by James Joyce
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant ...Show more
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Short Stories
"Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,"* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible"I really loved all the characters in this book. They're so complex and interesting, and in every story, you'll fi ...Show more
The Furphy Anthology 2020 by The Furphy Literary Awards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Joseph Furphy wrote the Australian literary classic, Such is Life, in 1903, under the pen name of ‘Tom Collins’, slang for ‘a tall story’. With its unreliable narrator travelling the countryside and telling the stories of the people he meets, the alias was certainly appropriate. His brother John, a bla ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see' The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its ...Show more
You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you.You Know You Want Thisis about the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it is about the horrors that a ...Show more
Last Stories by William Trevor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller* 'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth StroutIn this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the ...Show more
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$17.98 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) i ...Show more
Do You Love Me or What? by Sue Woolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A brilliant, critically acclaimed collection of short stories about love and what it means to be loved, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Leaning Towards Infinity, Painted Woman and The Secret Cure 'Elegant and satisfying, and so percipient of human yearning and loss.' Tom Keneally Written i ...Show more