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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"I was born with a white spot, or what others call a birthmark, on the cornea of my right eye. That spot would have been entirely insignificant if it hadn't been right in the center of my iris." So begins Guadalupe Nettel's exquisite novel based on her memories of growing up in Mexico in the seventies, ...Show more