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
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
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, visionary blak+black fiction by Rafeif Ismail, Ellen van Neerven
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | 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
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...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
The Burrow and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpubli ...Show more
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
$21.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers f ...Show more
When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: UQP Short Fiction Ser.
Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher's new classroom. Diseased cattle burn in fields around the country - it is a cameraman's role to frame the images for TV. A swagman jumps into a billabo ...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
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
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 an ...Show more
Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 by Sigrid Rausing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent edi ...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