The Visitors Book by Sophie Hannah
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this small but perfectly formed collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror. Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend's inner-city home? A ...Show more
A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies) by Herve Le Tellier
$19.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.
Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop
$45.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Featuring two centuries of women's short fiction, ranging from established Queens of the short story like Alice Munro and Angela Carter, to contemporary rising stars like Miranda July and Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, this is the biggest and most beautiful collection in print today. Handpicked by one of the n ...Show more
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane. A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a ...Show more
When There's Nowhere Else to Run by Murray Middleton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The winner if the 2015 Australian/Vogel's Literary Award.
Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer
$59.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: From
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literatur ...Show more
The Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation. In EVIL EYE, Oates offers four dark and compelling tales of love gone horribly wrong. The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay...A shy teenager meets a dazzling kind ...Show more
Night by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Edna O'Brien's classic, rocket of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorably, unhinged characters, Mary Hooligan. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, she recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering ...Show more
Best Australian Poems 2015 by Geoff Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
InThe Best Australian Poems 2015, you will find the who's who of contemporary poets and the pick of new voices. Sometimes satirical, sometimes erotic, covering family, religion, war and mortality, Geoff Page's selection celebrates the vital, the vigorous and the graceful voices that populate our poetry ...Show more
Granta 131: The map is not the territory by Sigrid Rausing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Description: This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulits ...Show more
Here (Book 1 of Elsewhere) by Alan Warner
$12.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Elsewhere
Here is about the elsewhere at home. With insightful new work fromTheresa Breslin, Ali Smith, Alasdair Gray and Miguel Syjuco,Here moves between countries and continents, through families and unlikely encounters to find hope and reconciliation. Naked horseback riding. Being on a carousel for 24 hours. ...Show more