The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. ...Show more
Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A brilliant Melbourne crime novel, told in ten hardboiled stories. John Dorn is a private investigator. Just like his father used to be. It says 'private inquiry agent' in John's Yellow Pages ad because that's what his old man called himself, back before his business folded, his wife left him and he dra ...Show more
Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines by John Scalzi
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Stories Inspired by Famous First LinesPride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Edited by respected anthologist Gardner D ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
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
The Trouble With Flying by ROSSITER, RICHARD
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Story Fire by Fellowship of Australian Write
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A wom ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2011 by Cate Kennedy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'Great short stories have a power like a depth charge, subtext roiling up to the surface at precisely the right moment.' - Cate KennedyIn The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.These stories take us deep into our past, into strange and ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: STELLA LL 2018
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short story, poetry, essay, journal, myth and fairy tale. This Water is a collection ...Show more
A Short Affair by Simon Oldfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: An Anthology
'A dazzling anthology uniting the written word with the visual' STEPHEN FRY A Short Affair is a vibrant anthology that combines the best of original short fiction with remarkable work by contemporary artists from the Royal Academy Schools. In this visually stunning collection from Pin Drop, the reno ...Show more