The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: General Adult
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A pair of childhood sweethearts reunite to commit rape and murder. A devoted Mormon ...Show more
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. ...Show more
Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A brilliant Melbourne crime novel, told in ten hardboiled stories. John Dorn is a private investigator. Just like his father used to be. It says 'private inquiry agent' in John's Yellow Pages ad because that's what his old man called himself, back before his business folded, his wife left him and he dra ...Show more
Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines by John Scalzi
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Stories Inspired by Famous First LinesPride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Edited by respected anthologist Gardner D ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In The Best Australian Stories 2016, Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things (winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year), presents twenty pieces of outstanding short fiction. Featuring the work of exciting new voices alongside stories by established favourites, thi ...Show more
Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
Liv, a spontaneous 23-year old graduate and Sophie, a provincial shop girl, both find themselves in Paris and in love. Though living decades apart, Liv and Sophie have a lot in common and they both find that marriage is only the beginning of their love stories ...Beth didn't expect to see Ben's face whe ...Show more
The Trouble With Flying by ROSSITER, RICHARD
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The Best Australian Stories 2011 by Cate Kennedy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Great short stories have a power like a depth charge, subtext roiling up to the surface at precisely the right moment.' - Cate KennedyIn The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.These stories take us deep into our past, into strange and ...Show more
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A wom ...Show more
Do You Love Me or What? by Sue Woolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A brilliant, critically acclaimed collection of short stories about love and what it means to be loved, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Leaning Towards Infinity, Painted Woman and The Secret Cure 'Elegant and satisfying, and so percipient of human yearning and loss.' Tom Keneally Written i ...Show more
This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: STELLA LL 2018
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short story, poetry, essay, journal, myth and fairy tale. This Water is a collection ...Show more
Common People by Tony Birch
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more