The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Mura ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
Public Library and other Stories by Ali Smith
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Category: Short Stories
This is a richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries ...Show more
A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: Personal Essays by LOWRY, BRIGID
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Category: Short Stories
If you're struggling to maintain grace and good humour amidst daily potholes and pitfalls, Brigid Lowry may be just the warm, wise and witty companion you need. Informed by contemporary psychology and Zen Buddhism, Brigid's essays offer reflections on everything from friendship to grief, and from gratit ...Show more
How to Fake Being Tidy: And Other Things My Mother Never Taught Me by Fenella Souter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Funny true stories about the everyday dramas that can make or break friendships, cooking, housekeeping and the domestic chaos that always threatens to get the upper hand, written in the tradition of Nora Ephron. 'A glorious account of how the little things of life are, of course, the big things' - Richa ...Show more
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II vetera ...Show more
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women by Lyse Doucet; Lucy Hannah (editors)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream"A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies nursing ...Show more
Sadvertising by Ennis Cehic
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form. A man grows tired of his open-plan office and builds a fort made of stationery. A woman's euphoria at finally achieving Desktop Zero is quickly replaced with despair. A group of c ...Show more
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, visionary blak+black fiction by Rafeif Ismail, Ellen van Neerven
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Category: Short Stories | Series: 1st
In partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future.Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice speculative fiction from First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invis ...Show more
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the dev ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman, John Freeman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, th ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more