Breaking Beauty by Lynette Washington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Breaking Beauty puts one of the greatest obsessions of our time under the spotlight and shows that beauty rarely exists without its grubby underbelly. There is no light without darkness. Our writers-sparkling talents both established and emerging-discover that beauty can be found in the most unusual and ...Show more
Old Growth by John Kinsella
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this luminous book of new stories, John Kinsella drops us seamlessly into the worlds of men, women and children at pivotal moments in their lives. In the title story, a husband who has lost his wife plans to destroy the old-growth bush she loved and escape to the city, with alarming consequences. Els ...Show more
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail, and the vivid, unsettling clarity they bring to our lives." (Sunday Times). An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is ab ...Show more
Pulse Points: Stories by Jennifer Down
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
It was a hot summer, then it was a hot fall. Thursdays were Lux's night off. We went swimming in the Merced. I have this picture in my head of her, hair dripping wet towel draped over her shoulders and tied under her chin like a superhero's cape; pale thighs, legs like two young shoots, hiking boots. In ...Show more
Painting in the Sand by Kim Hughes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George Cross in 2009 following a grueling six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan during which he defused 119 improvised explosive devices, survived numerous Taliban ambushes and endured a close ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and w ...Show more
Plane Tree Drive by Lynette Washington
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"Jennifer lives shrouded in secrets on Plane Tree Drive, stuck in regret that is destroying her marriage. Alice watches on as her husband finally gives up his addictions - and his family in the process. Faraj, haunted by memories from Afghanistan, slips into homelessness yet again. Meanwhile, Maurice re ...Show more
The Burning Ground by Adam O'Riordan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed poet Adam O'Riordan In these eight stories, an English writer focuses his gaze on America's West Coast, moving from fractured lives in remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach. A man visits his lo ...Show more
Labels by Louis de Bernieres
$9.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This limited edition of Labels, Louis de Bernieres' quirkily affectionate short story debut, is being re-released as a facsimile edition to celebrate Hardie Grant's 20th anniversary. The debut publication for Hardie Grant Books 20 years ago, it is a tale of obsession, with tender moments and gristly bit ...Show more
The Hunter and Other Stories of Men by David Cohen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a dementia care facility in Düsseldorf suffers its own identity crisis; a young man's new job requires him to pose as a woodcutter and wave at a trainload of to ...Show more
Pigface and Other Stories - Margaret River Press Short Story Competition 2018 by Ryan O'Neill (Editor)
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In the 2018 Margaret River Story Competition anthology, we take a voyeuristic glimpse into the lives of diverse characters—young and old, unsavoury and righteous, ordinary and bizarre. Although seemingly unconnected, these stories are linked through the commonalities of the universal human experience. T ...Show more
Inner Room (Faber Stories) by Robert Aickman
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncan ...Show more