New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 - by ORIA SHELLY
$31.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Enter the world of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, where the characters are as intelligent and charming as they are lonely. A couple discovers the ability to stop time together; another couple lives with a constant loud beeping in their apartment, though only one of them can hear it. A father leaves his daughte ...Show more
Best Australian Stories 2015 by Amanda Lohrey (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Some readers are drawn to the promise inherent in a novel, and it's true that the longer form can offer a slow and seductive immersion, but the short story offers pleasure of another kind - the quick fix, a shot of adrenaline to the mind and heart.' -Amanda Lohrey In The Best Australian Stories 201 ...Show more
This is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Doyle is as good as everyone - from John Boyne to Colm Tóibín - says he is' Daily MailA young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a break-up finds herself taking part in an ...Show more
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The debut short story collection by the author of Eileen, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their f ...Show more
The Burning Ground by Adam O'Riordan
$32.99 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
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
'I will never forget the first time I read Jenny Zhang ...I was stunned, moved and - quite frankly - a little jealous' Lena Dunham These seven startling stories of family, femininity, sexuality and otherness will plunge you into the tender and chaotic hearts of narrators you won't easily forget. Centred ...Show more
We'll Stand in That Place - And Other Stories by Michelle Cahill (Editor)
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The latest collection of short stories from the Margaret River Short Story Competition.
LONG TIME NOW by TAYLOR ALF
$14.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A third book from renowned poet and entrepreneur, Alf Taylor. In these exceptional yarns about people, places and events, Alf has interwoven grace, humour and a raw edge that has yet to be equalled.
High Places by Fiona McFarlane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The Night Guestintroduced an Australian writer 'with the promise of literary greatness' (Los Angeles Times). The High Places delivers on that promise. The dazzling stories in this collection find those moments when people confront the strangeness and mystery of their lives. The revelations of intimida ...Show more
Orange World by Karen Russell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerising talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives are on display in these exuberant, unforgettable stories. In 'The Bad Graft', a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accid ...Show more
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant; Francine Prose (Introduction by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of ...Show more
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl pla ...Show more