Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki
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Category: Short Stories
Izumi Suzuki had ideas of how things might be done differently, ideas that paid little the laws of physics, or the laws of the courts. In this new collection her skewed imagination is applied to some classic science fiction and fantasy tropes. A philandering husbands receives a bestial punishment fro ...Show more
The Terrible Event by David Cohen
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Category: Short Stories
From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen's most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet. A public memorial’s name is changed to avoid any mention of the tragedy it has been set up to commemorate. Two attention-seeking activists campaign against exclusionary policies ...Show more
God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
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Category: Short Stories
'The best piece of fiction I read this year' COLM TÓIBÍN, New Stateman Books of the Year 'Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a brilliant ...Show more
The Carnal Fugues by Catherine McNamara
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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
The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: Short Stories
A beautiful paperback edition of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley.'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl ...Show more
I Hear You're Rich: Stories by Diane Williams
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Category: Short Stories
'The writer who saved my life - or my soul.' Merve Emre, The New Yorker 'A true living hero of the American avant-garde.' Jonathan Franzen 'One of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something independent, energetic, heartfelt.' Lydia Davis A new collection of stories from th ...Show more
Telling: Stories of Resilience from Nairm Marr Djambana by Nairm Marr Djambana Aboriginal Corporation
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Category: Short Stories
‘Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom through their knowledge. We are forever grateful.’ — Kutcha Edwards The 12 short life stories in Telling are gr ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
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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
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: Short Stories
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
Greek Myths by Robin Waterfield
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Category: Short Stories
The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic and unforgettable stories in all human history. From Achilles rampant on the fields of Troy, to the gods at sport on Mount Olympus, from Icarus flying too close to the sun, to the superhuman feats of Heracles, Theseus and the wily Odysseus, t ...Show more