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Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England. In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Holl ...Show more
Cutting Edge: Noir Short Stories by Women by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...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
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The new story collection from one of our most celebrated masters of the form, Sarah Hall.
Improper Stories by Saki
$21.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Eighteen sharply satirical and deliciously disturbing tales by Saki, the Edwardian master of the short story.
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and other stories by Yann Martel
$23.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A ...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
Secret Lives of Men by Georgia Blain
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION IN THE NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 KIBBLE LITERARY AWARD In these thirteen short stories, Georgia Blain examines human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these ta ...Show more
Night by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering ...Show more
Petit Mal by D. B. C. Pierre
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: General Adult
"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