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
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
$42.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt's short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will d ...Show more
Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2021' by Lit Hub and The Millions 'Sestanovich's elegant prose takes seriously the quiet unrest that can ravage a life' - Raven Leilani, author of Luster 'Astonishing - one of the best story collections I've read in a long time' Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2021: A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A son becomes enthralled in his father’s quest for treasure. A young woman is blamed for an unfathomable act. Teenagers break into an airfield. Strangers meet in the night. The world is thrown into chaos when people spontaneously combust.New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct ex ...Show more
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
Punishment: The gripping international bestseller by Ferdinand von Schirach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Psychologically raw . . . icily effective' Financial Times 'One of the most distinctive voices in European literature' Daily Telegraph A young lawyer puts aside her sense of justice to succeed at her new firm. A man who values silence is driven to murder by his noisy neighbours. A cheated wife seeks ...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
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Winner: Sydney Morning Heral ...Show more
The Book of Tea : Little Black Classic by Kakuzo Okakura
$4.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...Show more
Stories of Manhood by Steve Biddulph (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The bestselling author of Raising Boys brings together an eclectic range of stories of men's experiencesBy turns powerful, heartbreaking, wise, and funny, these essays and other works of nonfiction break down the narrow stereotypes associated with manhood. contributors include Peter Carey, Bill Bryson, ...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.