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
The Body and Other Stories by Hanif Kureishi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Body is a dazzling collection of fiction from Hanif Kureishi, beginning with a novella that delves into the concept of identity, and its root in our physical being. Adam is a middle-aged playwright who accepts a tempting offer to have his mind transported into a younger body for six months. Youth re ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Quick & Dirty Erotica by Maxim Jakubowski
$12.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Mammoth Books
This title features over 130 short, short erotic stories of about 1,500 words each, or over 500 pages of outstanding erotica in bite-sized pieces, exploring the full range of human sensual and sexual experience. Each one of eight sections is devoted to a specific erotic kink, such as spanking, submissio ...Show more
Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of all storie ...Show more
Yours Always: Letters of Longing by Eleanor Bass
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'I'll just go on loving you in my deepest heart as I have done this very long time already.' Loretta Young This is a collection of passionate, deeply personal letters from well-known figures revealing the painful underside of love. Witness Winston Churchill 'growl with anger to be treated with benevolen ...Show more
Bream Gives Me Hiccups - And Other Stories by Jesse Eisenberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"Written in the droll tradition of Woody Allen, Simon Rich and David Sedaris these short pieces from Jesse Eisenberg are hilarious and ironic. The series of stories that gives the book its unusual title are written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy whose mother brings him to expensive Los An ...Show more
The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu
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Category: Short Stories
New York Times bestselling author Marjorie Liu (Monstress) leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her dark, romantic, and spellbinding short fiction you will find dangerous magic and even more dangerous women: a bodystealing sorceress, a bone-collecting apprentice-witch, a princess-turne ...Show more
Life Without Children - Stories by Roddy Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesA brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same ...Show more
The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Two astonishing novellas, by 'Mexico's greatest novelist', in one volume. Hilarious and horrifying, Yuri Herrera's The Transmigration of Bodies is a gritty, feverish novella, written in dazzling prose that is both bawdy and poetic. A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with ...Show more
We Live in Water by Jess Walter
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Category: Short Stories
From Jess Walter, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, comes We Live in Water - a darkly funny, utterly compelling collection of stories about the American family. We Live in Water brings to vivid life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a w ...Show more
Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
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Category: Short Stories
'Wendy Erskine's first collection, Sweet Home . . . is every bit as good as her early stories in the always astute Stinging Fly magazine promised.' Jon McGregor, New StatesmanSet in the author's native Belfast, the ten stories in Sweet Home lay bare the heartbreak and quiet tragedies that run under the ...Show more
The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of stories written by the late Carlos Ruiz Zafan as a thank you to the countless fans of his bestselling The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits books Return to the mythical Barcelona library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, in this posthumous collection of stories from Ca ...Show more