The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The secrets people kept, the lies they told.In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty material, ...Show more
The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Women by Victoria Hislop (ed.)
$44.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the best 100 short stories written by women, selected by Victoria Hislop, one of the nation's favourite novelists. Witty, heartbreaking, shocking, satirical: the short story can excite or sadden, entice or repulse. The one thing ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories by Henry Lawson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson has become part of the Australian national psyche, and his short stories and verse have come to affect how Australian's view their country.Yet at his best Lawson transcends even the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub ...Show more
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, ...Show more
Ghost - 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On by Louise Welsh (Editor)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on, selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh. Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes b ...Show more
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
$23.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as the ...Show more
Male Tears - Stories by Benjamin Myers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
'One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times' David PeaceIn Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, ...Show more
Madness by Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a cat's curious behaviour comes between a husband and his wife. . . "Madness" highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker. Collected together for the fir ...Show more
Another Australia by Edited by Winnie Dunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Sweatshop
A suburban psychic's ominous warning. A conversation in Yuwaalaraay. A glimpse of a shameful, hidden history. A love that moves a mountain. In this unwavering follow-up to After Australia, twelve more boundary-pushing Indigenous writers and writers of colour show us all that is and could exist in our ve ...Show more
England and Other Stories by Graham Swift
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
These twenty-five new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Meet Dr Shah who has never been ...Show more