Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will de ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
Prodigals: Stories by Greg Jackson
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Category: Short Stories
Adrift in lives of possibility and limitation, the flawed, struggling and sympathetic characters of these desperate, eerie stories seek refuge from meaninglessness and boredom in love, art, friendship, drugs, and sex. A journalist is either the guest or captive of a reclusive former tennis star at his m ...Show more
Strangely Enough by Gillian Hagenus (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories
Neglected by society, a group of caravanning 60-somethings encounter a place where time stops. A baby swims in a witch’s cauldron. A statue of Jesus grows fat off fish and chips. An ancient Egyptian God swims through the sewers under a suburban street and a desperate family harvests the fingers they fin ...Show more
The Faraway World: Stories by Patricia Engel
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Category: Short Stories
A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023 From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and com ...Show more
The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
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Category: Short Stories
A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New York, a formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in ...Show more
The O Henry Short Story Collection - by O. Henry
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Category: Short Stories
The O. Henry Short Story Collection - Volume I - Including The Gift Of The Magi and The Ransom Of Red Chief: The Last Of The Troubadours - The Sleuths - Witches' Loaves - The Pride Of The Cities - Holding Up A Train - Ulysses And The Dogman - The Champion Of The Weather - Makes The Whole World Kin - At ...Show more
The Turning by Tim Winton
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Category: Short Stories
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.Here are turnings of all kinds changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours where people struggle against the terrible weight of t ...Show more
The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In ...Show more
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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