I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories by Laura van den Berg
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.comAs enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exqui ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Open up by Thomas Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023 The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection.
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because ...Show more
Ladies' Lunch by Lore Segal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Five old friends meet to muse on life after ninety. Join their table. Five close friends in their 90s meet - as they have for decades - for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle, and laugh at, the enigmas and affronts of ageing. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspi ...Show more
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Seán Hewitt, Luke Edward Hall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Sean Hewitt and painter Luke Ed ...Show more
When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: UQP Short Fiction Ser.
Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher's new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country - it is a cameraman's role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabo ...Show more
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
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
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Atwood entices us to flip through the photo album of a Canadian woman who closely resembles herself. Come here, sit beside me, she seems to say. Then she takes us on an emotional journey through loneliness, love, loss and old age' Sarah Emily Miano, THE TIMES Short stories that trace the course of a lif ...Show more
Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
$11.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a stat ...Show more