Twice Not Shy - One Hundred Short Short Stories by Laura Keenan & Linda Martin (Editors)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Twice Not Shy is a contemporary collection of 100 flash, micro and hybrid stories, each 500 words or less, by rising and established writers. Building on the success of Night Parrot Press's first collection, Once, this anthology showcases the best of Western Australian authors writing in this exciting, ...Show more
Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio&rsqu ...Show more
Drown by Junot Díaz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Junot Diaz Made His Remarkable Debut As A Writer With This Collection Of Stories That Move From The Barrios Of The Dominican Republic To The Struggling Urban Communities Of New Jersey. The Stories Are All Unflinching And Strong And Diaz'S Prose Crackles With An Electric Sense Of Discovery. In 'Ysrael', ...Show more
Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories by Bette Howland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted wr ...Show more
Janette Turner Hospital Collected Stories (New Edition) by Janette Turner Hospital
$27.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This collection brings together in one distinguished volume a range of stories written over twenty-five years by this internationally acclaimed author. Janette Turner Hospital's sensuous prose reveals the inner lives of a fascinating gallery of characters caught between cultures. Some cross borders of c ...Show more
A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: Adult
Before the bushfires--before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills--the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people: in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, on the ...Show more
A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories by Sean O'Beirne
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new Australia - and into a very frightening future. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild ...Show more
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books ...Show more
The New World by Chris Adrian
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
What does love feel like beyond death? Jane's husband Jim has just died - or not quite. For Jim, a mild-mannered chaplain at the hospital where Jane works as a surgeon, has left his body to Polaris, a shadowy cryonics organisation that promises to do away with mortality forever. Stranded in the realm of ...Show more
A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"One day, Alice said, 'Eric Lane wants to take me to - ' For the first time, her mother attended, standing still. Eric was brought to the house, and Eric and Alice were married before there was time to say 'knife'. How did it happen? She tried to trace it back. She was watching her mother performing for ...Show more
The Astral Traveller's Handbook And Other Tales: Bedtime Buddha Series by David Michie
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
oWhatever dreams he was having, Jason knew they had nothing to do with his physical body. His eyes were firmly shut and his consciousness withdrawn from his senses when all this was going on. Yet in his dreams he experienced sights, sounds and even visceral sensations much more intensely than when he wa ...Show more
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is m ...Show more