The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisabl ...Show more
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov
$49.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the full arc of his career, rev ...Show more
I Am Heathcliff by Kate Mosse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In a collection of beautiful and arresting short stories 16 modern fiction superstars re-examine a character who lives in literary infamy as a tortured romantic hero - the unforgettable Heathcliff. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In 'Terminus' a young woman hides in an empty Brighton hote ...Show more
Homeland by Fernando Aramburu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain. With limited interest in politics, the terrorist threat posed by ETA seems to affect them little. When Bittori's husband starts receiving threatening letters from the violent group, however ...Show more
Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
"A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Berni res that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was 'an immense lunatic asylum'. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist's inability to stick to ...Show more
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisa ...Show more
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: General Adult
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the sto ...Show more
If You're Happy by Fiona Robertson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world. The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy. A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in ...Show more
Man and Beast by Andrew Rule
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Cavemen tamed fire then they tamed animals, wild ancestors of the domestic breeds that have been with us ever since. From the city beggar sharing a blanket with a bull terrier to oil-sheiks breeding Arabian horses, humans are suckers for animals. Writers are not immune. Les Carlyon has written of horses ...Show more
Nest: The art of birds by Janine Burke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
As an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, art historian and author, has spent many years observing birds. Nest: The Art of Birds is the story of her passion, a personal, wide-ranging and intimate book - part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memo ...Show more
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Autonomy, n. "I want my books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. A nameless couple meet, fall in love, move in together, and then the hard work of loving each begins. Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover's Dictionary is an intimate ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt ...Show more