Born for You by Magdalena McGuire
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from child to adult, from certainty to uncertainty. In twelve distinct but spiritually interwoven stories, we meet women at the crossroads of change. A new mother learns about love in a pandemic ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short cen ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent by Susan Wyndham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The loss of a parent is an experience that we all face without any training - relating to a parent through old age and illness; going through the actual death in different circumstances and whether we can help parents to have a good death; the emotional aftermath - shock, grief, relief, the effect on fa ...Show more
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The fortieth anniversary edition of McEwan's first published work, beautifully re-jacketed for a new generation of fans. Now with an Afterword from the author.Forty years on from when they were first published, these stories show McEwan's dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, th ...Show more
What Fear Was by Ben Walter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From vanishing islands to talking flathead and nightmarish bushfires, Ben Walter’s visionary Tasmanian fictions are unique in the landscape of Australian writing. An unemployed man chooses only to apply for jobs advertised in The Economist; a failed mountain expedition is mocked by the dead bodies of pa ...Show more
Burning Angel and Other Stories by Lawrence Osborne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The first collection of stories by 'The bastard child of Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene' (Metro) perfectly showcases Osborne's talent for tension, atmosphere -- and characters out of their depthA naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ...Show more
Goddess Stories: Discover their mythology. Channel their power. by Alison Davies
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Stories Behind... Ser.
Channel your inner goddess with this unforgettable book of mythology, perfect for lovers of Circe, The Silence of the Girls, and Great Goddesses.
Elsewhere by Yan Ge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star - nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing. 'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' - SARAH HALL 'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' - DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN 'Preci ...Show more