The Carnal Fugues by Catherine McNamara
$32.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese sopr ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Smokehouse by Melissa Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he's turned into a home. A woman's adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and grief. A couple's decision to move to an isolated location may just be their undoing. A young woman forms an unexpected connection at a ...Show more
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love interest by taking revenge over a very F ...Show more
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author’s own hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a sc ...Show more
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
$34.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Ser.
Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
Life Without Children: Stories by Roddy Doyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly writ ...Show more
You Have a Friend in 10A - Stories by Maggie Shipstead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER SHORTLISTED AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING GREAT CIRCLE ... 'Maggie Shipstead combines cinematic scope with a poet's attention to detail' THE TIMES A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring ...Show more
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Goregous' Amy Liptrot'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there ...Show more
I Walk Between the Raindrops by T. C. Boyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neigh ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth ...Show more