Orange World by Karen Russell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerising talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives are on display in these exuberant, unforgettable stories. In 'The Bad Graft', a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accid ...Show more
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant; Francine Prose (Introduction by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of ...Show more
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl pla ...Show more
A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Short Stories
"Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,"* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible"I really loved all the characters in this book. They're so complex and interesting, and in every story, you'll fi ...Show more
Fabulous Lives by Bindy Pritchard
$27.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Fabulous Lives is a collection of short stories spanning Australia and other continents. It embraces people with all their frailties and strengths, failures and hopes, as they reach critical junctures in their lives.Both funny and heart-rending, these 16 stories follow the struggles of life's outsiders- ...Show more
Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Short Stories by Kevin Wilson
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Wildfire Johnny' is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time. 'Scroll Through the Weapons' is about a couple taking care of their underfed and almost feral nieces and nephews. 'Signal to the Faithful' follows a boy as he takes a tense road trip with his prie ...Show more
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America.From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, hau ...Show more
When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: UQP Short Fiction Ser.
Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher's new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country - it is a cameraman's role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabo ...Show more
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman
$4.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and ...Show more
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
It is a cold day in January, and J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. He is old and frail, entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer Sally. The day begins slowly as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirring memories of his late wife Eileen and his dis ...Show more
Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more