The Moth: Occasional Magic - True Stories of Defying the Impossible by Catherine Burns (Introduction by, Editor); The Moth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$45.00 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 th ...Show more
Lust by Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
"Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor, a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband . . . Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, ...Show more
Daddy by Emma Cline
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present. 'Taut, beautiful and savage' GuardianA man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a viol ...Show more
The Empathy Exams : Essays by Leslie Jamison
$21.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students t ...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
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping by Derek Jarman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Written in 1971 and published here for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only piece of narrative fiction; a surreal, fable-like, lyrical tale which echoes throughout his later work.
Common People by Tony Birch
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation. This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda, takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to chara ...Show more
For The Patriarch by Angelo Loukakis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this provocative and wide-ranging collection of stories, Angelo Loukakis set the bar for a generation of Australian writers to come. These finely crafted and sensitive fictional explorations of lives led on the outer or on the edge continue to challenge cherished myths and expectations in literature ...Show more
Tall Tales Short: the Novella Project III by Julianne Schultz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated, ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days). And this child is the means by which many first know our greatest writers...' Ian McEwan In 2012, Griffith Review 38: The Nove ...Show more
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'This land is a forever land. The clock ticks to a different time.'Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, Storyland is a remarkable and moving novel about who we are and our connection to this land.Telling the stories of five very different people, Storyland weaves together a co ...Show more