Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A masterful collection of heartbreak, travel and seduction from an internationally acclaimed Australian author. These superbly crafted stories follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are travelling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds. We meet them negotiating reluctant departu ...Show more
Offshore by Joshua Mostafa
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Now in its seventh year, the Viva la Novella prize is Australia's only standalone prize for short novels. Since its inception, we have published surprising, original and brilliant writing from debut and emerging writers. And it's not just us saying so. In 2017 Marlee Jane Ward's novella Welcome to Orpha ...Show more
Fly Already: Stories by Etgar Keret
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the worl ...Show more
A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking- the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion ...Show more
The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The prize-winning Irish short story writer and author of the highly praised novel My Coney Island Baby delivers his most accomplished book of short fiction to date. A poignant story collection that "grips from the opening page" (Bernard MacLaverty).Twelve poignant, quietly dazzling and carefully crafted ...Show more
Life, Bound by Marian Matta
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Free agents or captives of our past? In Life, Bound, characters find themselves caught in situations not of their own making, or trapped by ingrained habits, walking in grooves carved out by past events. An artist's progress is pleasingly channeled into a pattern laid down a century earlier. A solitary ...Show more
Rural Dreams by Margaret Hickey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Funny, heartbreaking and true; the characters in Rural Dreams are the people we know and grew up with. Some of them might even be us. A girl finds strength in poetry, a football coach ponders obsession, a woman grapples with the fall out of an affair and a mother can’t and won’t stop swearing. In ‘Binky ...Show more
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORKER BOOK CRITIC'S FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEAR"Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging...an extraordinary new collection..."--The New Yorker "E ...Show more
Off the Map by Scot Gardner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
By turns dark and light, funny and poignant, this unforgettable collection of stories takes us right to the heart of what it means to be young in today's world, from a CBCA award-winning author. Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of nowhere. We ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Full of love, melancholy and magic - the new story collection from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier. 'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer In this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of ...Show more
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies And Other Writing From The London Review Of Books by Hilary Mantel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, author of The Wolf Hall trilogy. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be mo ...Show more