You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you.You Know You Want Thisis about the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it is about the horrors that a ...Show more
The Near and the Far Volume 2: More Stories from the Asia-Pacific Region by Ian See
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In the outer suburbs of Perth, Australia, a seven-year-old discovers ballroom dancing. In Jakarta, Indonesia, a poet tries to move on with his life after splitting up with his boyfriend. In the Philippines' Quezon City, a nurse reflects on her late mother while caring for a dying woman. And in the Uva p ...Show more
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Makes you shake your head in delight... Her stories feel simultaneously like the poke of a stick and a comforting balm; a smack followed by a kiss. I'm so into it' Bim Adewunmi, Guardian Heads of the Colored People interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing ...Show more
Dirty Linen: Stories by Rachel Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
She sat down in front of a movie-star mirror framed with silver light bulbs and felt like her life had taken a sudden lurch. She was more like something just ventured from the depths of a winter burrow than she was a movie star, but now she'd taken those wobbly first steps there was no going back. Somew ...Show more
The Palace of Angels by Mohammed Massoud Morsi
$32.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Years ago, three young men, fired with idealism for Palestine’s second Intifada and fuelled by hashish, ventured on a clandestine transaction that left just one of them standing. Guns from Israel — bound for Gaza — in exchange for Egyptian hashish. Many years later, the fight for freedom from Israel’s b ...Show more
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: near fine
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...Show more
The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance.From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain come these superbly crafted stories that ex ...Show more
Furphy Anthology 2022 by The Furphy Literary Awards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Short stories have a way of encapsulating the world around us and within us. While storytelling is a universal thing, it's the images in these sixteen stories that evoke a place and its people. Dead bats hanging on a wire, sport on the TV, figurines by a bed, teacups of yore and reusable coffee cups of ...Show more
Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey tes ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A stunning collection of short stories from the author if In Certain Circles. This collection of short fiction from Elizabeth Harrower features a number of previously unpublished works, and Alice which was published for the first time in The New Yorker in 2015. Internationally acclaimed for her five bri ...Show more
Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansi ...Show more