Things Could Be Worse by Lily Brett
$19.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"After surviving the Holocaust, Josl and Renia move to Melbourne with their daughter Lola Bensky to start a new life. This poignant yet bitingly funny collection of short stories follows Lola's struggles to come to terms with herself, her place in the local Jewish community and the horrific family histo ...Show more
Fine by Michelle Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The dazzlingly accomplished stories in this collection range from a vivid moment of a young girl counting the 'water hours', to a scorching tale of schoolyard bullying; a sleep-deprived mother; grandparents of a child at risk deciding where their loyalties lie; a young boy searching for his parents afte ...Show more
Knitting and Other Stories by Richard Rossiter ed.
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This is the Ritual by Rob Doyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Doyle is as good as everyone - from John Boyne to Colm Toibin - says he is' Daily Mail A 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
Wild Gestures by Lucy Durneen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A daughter flies into a painting to escape her overprotective mother. An exchange student sees green lights in the sky above South America and fears the worst. Against the backdrop of an Italian bird market, a holidaying teenager makes her first attempt at seduction. And an affair that never happens is ...Show more
Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark by Catherine Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The room rustled as the children looked around. They knew no one had been to the coast but they checked in case for liars, for the too-dumb to know the difference between the real world and the television, for the dreamers. A young boy yearns for a rabbit; a man battles for his father's love; a group of ...Show more
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.... The author's crisp, imagi ...Show more
Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Elena Rubik can't seem to stay dead. She persists: as a set of corneas, as a newsletter subscriber, as a member of fanfiction forums. Her best friend Jules Valentine meanwhile is unwittingly inveigled into an indie-film turned corporate branding stunt. When Jules leaks information about the true story b ...Show more
Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINESittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, env ...Show more
The Art Of The Glimpse - 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinead Gleeson (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpseis a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting ...Show more
Broken Rules and Other Stories by Barry Lee Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
These awards-listed, interlinked stories vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light. An adolescent son and his parents on their annual holiday at a Bournemouth guesthouse become intrigued with the glamour and otherness of an ...Show more
Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pul ...Show more