Lost Boy & Other Stories by Estelle Tang
$24.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories submitted to the annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. Twenty-four stories make up this collection that includes works by internationally and nationally prize winning short story writers. The winning story, "Lost Boy" is the story ...Show more
Little White Slips by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The 13 stories in this debut collection showcase a writing that is deeply personal, strikingly feminine, heartbreakingly beautiful, at times fearless and confronting, and frequently hilarious. Whether tackling a troubled marriage using an action figure of Sigmund Freud, celebrating the apparent triumph ...Show more
Dodging the Bull by Mitchell Paul
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Paul Mitchell throws a spanner into daily lives and watches his characters pick up the pieces. From the Bali bombings to the difficulties of unorthodox sexuality in a closed-minded community, Mitchell's stories are socially aware and compassionate, but also confronting and progressive. Shifting with ea ...Show more
Old Growth by John Kinsella
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this luminous book of new stories, John Kinsella drops us seamlessly into the worlds of men, women and children at pivotal moments in their lives. In the title story, a husband who has lost his wife plans to destroy the old-growth bush she loved and escape to the city, with alarming consequences. Els ...Show more
Furphy Anthology 2022 by The Furphy Literary Awards
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Short stories have a way of encapsulating the world around us and within us. While storytelling is a universal thing, it's the images in these sixteen stories that evoke a place and its people. Dead bats hanging on a wire, sport on the TV, figurines by a bed, teacups of yore and reusable coffee cups of ...Show more
Dirty Linen: Stories by Rachel Ward
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
She sat down in front of a movie-star mirror framed with silver light bulbs and felt like her life had taken a sudden lurch. She was more like something just ventured from the depths of a winter burrow than she was a movie star, but now she'd taken those wobbly first steps there was no going back. Somew ...Show more
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: near fine
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner. George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world The 'best sh ...Show more
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail, and the vivid, unsettling clarity they bring to our lives." (Sunday Times). An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is ab ...Show more
Pulse Points: Stories by Jennifer Down
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
It was a hot summer, then it was a hot fall. Thursdays were Lux's night off. We went swimming in the Merced. I have this picture in my head of her, hair dripping wet towel draped over her shoulders and tied under her chin like a superhero's cape; pale thighs, legs like two young shoots, hiking boots. In ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and w ...Show more
Plane Tree Drive by Lynette Washington
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Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"Jennifer lives shrouded in secrets on Plane Tree Drive, stuck in regret that is destroying her marriage. Alice watches on as her husband finally gives up his addictions - and his family in the process. Faraj, haunted by memories from Afghanistan, slips into homelessness yet again. Meanwhile, Maurice re ...Show more