Mr Salary: Faber Stories by Sally Rooney
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is on ...Show more
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
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...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
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: good
The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inn ...Show more
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck ...Show more
Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny - the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken. Prize-winning author Chloe Wilson's stories will pin you to the page. 'Chilling ...Show more
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
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Mark Smith, Neil A. White, Kirsten Krauth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy ...Show more
Dark Roots (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 PREMIER'S QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS: AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION OPRAH MAGAZINE 'NEW VOICE OF THE MONTH' In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives -- m ...Show more