Certain American States by Catherine Lacey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Twelve stories - each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart - from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.
Napoleon's Roads - Short story collection by David Brooks
$23.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Description: 'What are the crimes of love, anyway, but fragments of passion broken from their moorings, evidence of a kind of shipwreck? (But what kind of ship? Where was it? What was its name?) Or crows, a flock of them, high in the air, fighting against a wind that no-one can see.' David Brooks' mast ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and Other Stories by Helen Dunmore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Wisdom and wit shine out from Helen Dunmore's last stories' The Times 'It was her emotional concision that made her so exceptional, a quality on ample display in these posthumous short stories ... some absolute gems' Mail on Sunday 'I couldn't recommend these stories more.' Evening Standard__________ ...Show more
The Boy Who Could See Death by Salley Vickers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
From Salley Vickers, bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel, comes The Boy Who Could See Death, an enchanting and unsettling collection of short stories. Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift. It will shape the course of his whole life but, he learns the hard way, he must keep it hidden f ...Show more
After the Carnage by Tara June Winch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: General Adult
"A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a better future. A recently divorced man starts a running group with members of an online forum for recovering addicts. Ranging from New York to Istanbul, from ...Show more
And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer
$17.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H. H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Archer has written five bestselling collections over the years and Macmi ...Show more
Cruelty by Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences, an unusual painting proves to be more valuable than anyone, especially its owner, could ever have predicted, a husband and wife, unable to get their new baby to feed, hit upon a disturbing solution . . . "Cruelty" highlights a domestic ...Show more
The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A collection of stories written by the late Carlos Ruiz Zafan as a thank you to the countless fans of his bestselling The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits books Return to the mythical Barcelona library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, in this posthumous collection of stories from Ca ...Show more
Island by Alistair MacLeod
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
"Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, these stories are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart. Steeped in memory and myth and washed in the brine and blood of the long battle with the land and the sea, they celebrate a passionate engagement wi ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection by Cate Kennedy (Editor); Black Inc. Staff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Storiesand selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject- there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, ...Show more
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A masterful collection of heartbreak, travel and seduction from an internationally acclaimed Australian author. These superbly crafted stories follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are travelling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds. We meet them negotiating reluctant departu ...Show more