Everywhere (Book of Elsewhere 4) by Michael Morpurgo, M.B.E.
$12.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Elsewhere
"Everywhere "is where young adults find elsewhereEverywhere bends the rules and lets imagination run wild through stories, comic strips, and poetry. Features David Almond, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Julia Donaldson, John Fardell, Keith Gray, Barry Hutchison, Elizabeth Laird, Denise Mina, Michael Morpurgo, Ma ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature by Otto Penzler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN. Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; deadly secrets deep in the London Library: who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 15 short storie ...Show more
Collected Stories by James Salter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
With an introduction by John Banville. From his first published story in the Paris Review in 1968, James Salter's stories have been universally acclaimed. Including his two published collections, Dusk and Other Stories (1988) and Last Night (2005), and the previously uncollected 'Charisma', this volume ...Show more
Kimberley Stories by Sandy Toussaint (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
There are a thousand ways to connect to country. Kimberley Stories is one of them. Once known, never forgotten, the Kimberley gets under your skin. Kimberley Stories tunes readers into one of Australia's most intriguing and exotic regions via the work of talented authors and artists. Interweaving fictio ...Show more
The High Priestess Never Marries: Stories of Love and Consequence by Sharanya Manivannan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A Sri Lankan mermaid laments the Arthurian Fisher King; a woman treks to a cliff in the Nilgiris with honey gatherers of the Irula tribe; a painter fears she will lose her sanity if she leaves her marriage, and lose her art if she stays faithful within it; one woman marries her goddess; another, sitting ...Show more
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-siecle by Elaine Showalter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: New International Versio Ser.
At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form, and courageous in its candid literary aspiration, shocked Victo ...Show more
Southerly Volume 76.1 Words Music by "Southerly"
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This issue presents writing by musicians and writers who cross mediums to collaborate and experiment in the spaces between words and music, including Hilary Bell and Phillip Johnston. It includes curator John Murphy's reflections on archiving Peter Sculthorpe's house and Joseph Tolz writes of the experi ...Show more
Letters From Klara by Tove Jansson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good-very good
The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the first time. In these light-footed, beautifully crafted yet disquieting stories, Jansson tells of discomfi ...Show more
War by Janne Teller
$9.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Endorsed by Amnesty International. Imagine if war broke out - not in Iraq or Afghanistan, somewhere far far away, but here, in our country. In War, Janne Teller embarks on a thought-provoking experiment: by simply turning the current crisis on its head, she reveals what it is like to flee your home coun ...Show more
Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess's palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours his food with precious stones. A coterie ...Show more
The Roald Dahl Treasury by Roald Dahl
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 8+
The Roald Dahl Treasuryis a wonderful collection by and about Roald Dahl, the great storytelling genius. Four themed sections - Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and Matters of Importance - introduce some of Dahl's best-loved characters, from Willy Wonka to the BFG, from the Witches to the Twit ...Show more