Ghost Lover: The electrifying short story collection from the author of THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal comes an electric masterclass in short fiction'Fearless . . . This summer's must-read literary thriller' EVENING STANDARD'Showcases Taddeo's dark imagination, confronting prose and vodka-dry humour' RED----------------Behind anonymous sc ...Show more
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT. A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told she must find a father for her unborn baby or face horrific consequences. A young monster, forced to fight, discovers the extent of his po ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories by Bruce Fulton, Kwon Youngmin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of l ...Show more
Mother Tongue by Joyce Komblatt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
What does it mean when the identity out of which one builds a life turns out to be a lie? What is the impact on one's self and those one loves? Mother Tongue emerges from the fires of shocking loss, betrayal and grief-tested love.'Mother Tongue is a profound and moving novel that asks complex questions ...Show more
Travelling Companions by Antoni Jach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Antoni Jach takes one of the oldest of storytelling forms, the traveller who shares with us the tales of other travellers, and makes new magic from it. Travelling Companions is a joy from start to finish.’ — John Connolly, author of he: A Novel and the Charlie Parker series Solitary travellers and a c ...Show more
Metamorphosis - Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
$45.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing ol ...Show more
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad. "The People Immortal is a remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror of warfare with incomparable understanding and insight" JONATHAN DIMBLEBY "There are always good reas ...Show more
The World of Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Jeeves and Wooster Ser.
A Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus'Jeeves knows his place, and it is between the covers of a book.' This is an omnibus of wonderful Jeeves and Wooster stories, specially selected and introduced by Wodehouse himself, who was struck by the size of his selection and described it as almost the ideal paperweight. ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2020 : new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor); Laura McPhee-Browne; Sophie Overett; K. A. Rees; Mirandi Riwoe; Mykaela Saunders; Laura Stortenbeker; Jessie Tu; Jack Vening; Madeleine Watts; Maame Blue; Claire G. Coleman; Elizabeth Flux; Katerina Gibson; Jack Kirne; Daria Lebedyeva; Donna Ma9780241408513zza
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: FILED UNDER K FOR KILL YOUR DARLINGS
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best.
Dreams They Forgot by Emma Ashmere
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two women drive from Melbourne to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge before it's finished. An isolated fa ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman, John Freeman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, th ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.