A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Short Stories
"Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,"* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible"I really loved all the characters in this book. They're so complex and interesting, and in every story, you'll fi ...Show more
Fabulous Lives by Bindy Pritchard
$27.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Fabulous Lives is a collection of short stories spanning Australia and other continents. It embraces people with all their frailties and strengths, failures and hopes, as they reach critical junctures in their lives.Both funny and heart-rending, these 16 stories follow the struggles of life's outsiders- ...Show more
Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine: Short Stories by Kevin Wilson
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Wildfire Johnny' is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time. 'Scroll Through the Weapons' is about a couple taking care of their underfed and almost feral nieces and nephews. 'Signal to the Faithful' follows a boy as he takes a tense road trip with his prie ...Show more
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America.From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, hau ...Show more
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back by Neil Gaiman
$4.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and ...Show more
Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
It is a cold day in January, and J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. He is old and frail, entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer Sally. The day begins slowly as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirring memories of his late wife Eileen and his dis ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories suc ...Show more
Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed a ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
Wild Fearless Chests by Mandy Beaumont
$28.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: near fine
Brutal. Uncompromising. Magnificent. Complex. Unforgettable. A timely debut short story collection that breaks open the idea of women from a powerful new Australian literary voice.She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the sk ...Show more