Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women by BLACK INC. (ED.)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Something Special, Something Rarepresents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering h ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls.In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the eve ...Show more
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
$12.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious; Self-Help forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence which is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago. These stories are modern America at its most real, with characters sharing thoughts and experiences they could have borrowed fro ...Show more
Strange Objects Covered with Fur: 2015 Uts Writers' Anthology by VARIOUS
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The UTS Writers' Anthology is an annual publication produced by the University of Technology, Sydney. Students from the undergraduate, postgraduate and research programs submit their work anonymously, and a student editorial committee selects and edits the Anthology over a period of four months. In 2015 ...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
Lost Boy & Other Stories by Estelle Tang
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories submitted to the annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. Twenty-four stories make up this collection that includes works by internationally and nationally prize winning short story writers. The winning story, "Lost Boy" is the story ...Show more
Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The 13 stories in this debut collection showcase a writing that is deeply personal, strikingly feminine, heartbreakingly beautiful, at times fearless and confronting, and frequently hilarious. Whether tackling a troubled marriage using an action figure of Sigmund Freud, celebrating the apparent triumph ...Show more
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: good
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unim ...Show more
The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories by Cameron Raynes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism. A welfare worker is asked to spy on a colleague. And in the award-winning title story, a taxi driver accepts a fare he knows he ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 by Chloe Brien
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The ninth edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. The collection features over fifty writers and competitions, and includes a foreword by Sam Cooney, writer, editor, lecturer ...Show more
The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A woman who can't swim wades into a suburban pool. An Indian family sits down to an Australian Christmas dinner. A single mother's offer to coach her son's soccer team leads to an unexpected encounter. A recent migrant considers taking the fall for a second generation 'friend'. A wife refuses to let her ...Show more
Dodging the Bull by Mitchell Paul
$19.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Paul Mitchell throws a spanner into daily lives and watches his characters pick up the pieces. From the Bali bombings to the difficulties of unorthodox sexuality in a closed-minded community, Mitchell's stories are socially aware and compassionate, but also confronting and progressive. Shifting with ea ...Show more