Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed a ...Show more
A Short Affair by Simon Oldfield
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'A dazzling anthology uniting the written word with the visual' STEPHEN FRY A Short Affair is a vibrant anthology that combines the best of original short fiction with remarkable work by contemporary artists from the Royal Academy Schools. In this visually stunning collection from Pin Drop, the ...Show more
Zebra and other stories by Debra Adelaide
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The PM stretched out a hand. The black and white head extended, and as the zebra walked down the ramp and into the morning, her first in her new land, and a particularly bright morning as well, the PM realised that Mr Beamish was a marvel, a genius. A stranger, half a world, a continent, away, and yet h ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Basket of Deplorables by Tom Rachman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and high-end canapUs to watch the Trump-Clinton results come in, expecting a smooth victory for Hillary. As the outcome shifts and they descend into panic, the host stands abruptly before her guests, confessing a shocking cri ...Show more
After the Carnage by Tara June Winch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: General Adult
"A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a better future. A recently divorced man starts a running group with members of an online forum for recovering addicts. Ranging from New York to Istanbul, from ...Show more
Egyptian Myths by Garry J. Shaw
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
This handy guide to Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the origins of life, the creation and evolution of the world, and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the manifestations of Egypt_s deities in the natural e ...Show more
The Royal Game: A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
$12.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A new edition of this classic Zweig story - an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner during WW2 unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
As a companion volume to The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, a further six of P. D. James's ingenious short stories are published here together for the first time.As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their come ...Show more
Birthday Girl by Haruki Murakami
$3.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's a ...Show more
Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernieres
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power. The collection includes 'Gunter Weber's Confession' which revisits characters from Captain Corelli. Full of wit, warmth and charm, Louis de Bernières' Labels and Other Sto ...Show more
Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Stories that start like delicate webs and finish like unbreakable wire traps' Neil GaimanNaomi Ishiguro's fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story collection merges the inventiveness of David Mitchell and the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter to form its own powerful magic.Witness what ...Show more