Innards by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'A gut punch of a collection...it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.' New York TimesSet in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid. Ric ...Show more
Tenth of December by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot- a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us-or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years ...Show more
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...Show more
The Snow Woman and Other Yokai Stories from Japan by Noboru Wada
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An extraordinary collection of Japanese folk tales, many in English for the first time!This book contains 79 stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu, compiled and edited by award-winning author Noboru Wada. It features traditional tales of yokai, ghosts, mountain witches, demons and appa ...Show more
The Faraway World: Stories by Patricia Engel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023 From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and com ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
The Catch (#2 Slough House novella) by Mick Herron
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: A\Slough House Novella Ser.
If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it's to keep his head down. Especially now, when he's living rent-free in a dead spook's flat.So he's not delighted to be woken at dawn by a pair of Regent's Park's heavies, looking for a client he's not seen in years. John doesn't k ...Show more
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will de ...Show more
The Gorgon Flower by John Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, 'The Gorgon Flower'. A young woman is haunted by the disappearance of her grandmother, a brilliant mathematician whose research unco ...Show more
THE ANTHOLOGY OF COLONIAL ROMANCE FICTION by GELDER & WEAVER
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories