The Cracks in Our Armor by Anna Gavalda; Alison Anderson (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this collection of short stories, all written in the first person, Anna Gavalda has created an ode to those who confront their vulnerabilities and admit their weaknesses. These tales illustrate the importance of moving beyond the wounds of the past and embracing love, friendship, forgiveness, and fam ...Show more
Being Various - New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Edited by prize-winning author and playwright Lucy Caldwell, Being Various brings together original stories from Ireland's current golden age of writing with some exciting new voices, never before published. Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the si ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Sup.. by Alberto Manguel
$37.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life.In this personal reckoning with his favorite ...Show more
Invisible Blood by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor); Lee Child; Christopher Fowler; Mary Hoffman; Gavin D. Smith; Jeffrey Deaver
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
FEATURING A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY A collection of seventeen brand-new crime stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Stella Duffy, and more. KILLER SECRETSFEATURING A BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STORY Open the files on an anthology of seventeen new crime stories to probe the ...Show more
The Memory Pool: Stories from Australian Childhoods at the Pool by Therese Spruhan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool. Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chl ...Show more
Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection by Alex Preston (ed.)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination, en ...Show more
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"Sarah Hall is one of those rare writers whose short fiction has the same luminosity as her novels. But the short form allows her more room to probe and roam, to experiment with form, to sink her fingers into the earth."--The Observer (London) Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and e ...Show more
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In 'The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate', a portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second c ...Show more
Collisions: Fictions Of The Future:An Anthology Of Australian Writers OfColour by Leah Jing McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This collection of short stories showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer in this new decade. Featuring work from both emerging and established writers of colour, the stories in Collisions transcend genre and experiment with style. They are necessary reading for everybody ...Show more
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks," said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are unified by girls and women who cross th ...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