Retreat - The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Stepping back from the world is an ancient human impulse. Over the last year we have had to retreat. But throughout time, we have chosen to.We were doing it more and more, anyway. Mindfulness and meditation are all the rage. Wellness tourism, yoga breaks, meditation apps, and spiritual boot camps have b ...Show more
The Australian Long Story by Mandy Sayer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this collection, acclaimed writer Mandy Sayer brings together nine of the best Australian examples of the long story - tales that combine the intensity of the short story with the complexity of a novel. In these stories, characters grow up, hook up and break up, endure calamitous loss and discover de ...Show more
Do You Love Me or What? by Sue Woolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A brilliant, critically acclaimed collection of short stories about love and what it means to be loved, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Leaning Towards Infinity, Painted Woman and The Secret Cure 'Elegant and satisfying, and so percipient of human yearning and loss.' Tom Keneally Written i ...Show more
Spring: (Seasons Quartet 3) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Anna Bjerger (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it." -The New York Times "Poignant and beautiful...Even if you think you won't like Knausgaard, try this ...Show more
Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This is a collection of eleven short stories to startle, surprise and satisfy from Roald Dahl - the master of the twist in the tale. How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking? What if you found out the tatt ...Show more
Ox Crimes: Introduced by Ian Rankin by Peter Florence
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
For 2014, Oxfam and Profile have turned to crime in order to raise a further GBP200,000 for Oxfam's work. OxCrimes is introduced by Ian Rankin and has been curated by Peter Florence, director of Hay Festival, where it will be launched in May. The stellar cast of contributors will include Mark Billingham ...Show more
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and i ...Show more
Crow's Breath by John Kinsella
$25.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and Christopher Brennan Award (for lifetime achievement in poetry) and shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Prize for a collection of short fiction, John Kinsella returns with a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of Australia's most original ...Show more
The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari; Robert Hillman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the authors of the bestseller The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif comes their latest book, The Honey Thief. A superb collection of spellbinding tales from Afghanistan that portray a vivid landscape of hardship and brotherhood, catastrophes and miracles. These tales of peasants, poisoners and kings leap ...Show more
The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories suc ...Show more
The Complete Stories by Anita Desai
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of Ind ...Show more
Shoko's Smile by Choi Eunyoung
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In crisp, unembellished prose, Choi Eunyoung paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In 'A Song fr ...Show more