Pure Gold by John Patrick McHugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' Sally Rooney ‘Dark, funny, honest and engrossing' Roddy Doyle ‘Refreshing and ambitious' Lisa McInerny ‘Full of stylish brio' Colin Barrett Pure Gold heralds the arrival of a vibrant new literary voice Love. You had to scrap for love. In th ...Show more
New American Stories by Ben Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents the boldest, most innovative and most resonant fiction coming out of the American literary scene. Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea, has here curated an anthology that gives the ...Show more
The Best Australian Bush Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond ...an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
Watermark by Joanna Atherfold Finn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Rising and recoiling like the ocean, Watermark cracks open the coastal idyll of a quintessentially Australian seaside landscape to reveal shifting sands, fractured relationships, and innocence lost against a backdrop that is constantly changing.Meet a boy with dyslexia who finds the right words in the o ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier''s Literary Awards ''Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.'' Christos T ...Show more
This All Come Back Now : An anthology of First Nations speculative fiction by Mykaela Saunders
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘this all come back’: all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the los ...Show more
To Be a Man - Stories by Nicole Krauss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: near fine
Deftly weaving from one end of life to another o from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illumina ...Show more
Desire: 100 of Literature's Sexiest Stories by Mariella Erotic (ed.); Frostrup Review
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of 100 of literature's sexiest stories, chosen by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review. Strict mistresses, naughty maids, handsome gardeners and disarming strangers; literature is awash with love, sex and desire. This collection brin ...Show more
The Teeth of a Slow Machine by Andrew Roff
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own. A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A c ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2020 : new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor); Laura McPhee-Browne; Sophie Overett; K. A. Rees; Mirandi Riwoe; Mykaela Saunders; Laura Stortenbeker; Jessie Tu; Jack Vening; Madeleine Watts; Maame Blue; Claire G. Coleman; Elizabeth Flux; Katerina Gibson; Jack Kirne; Daria Lebedyeva; Donna Ma9780241408513zza
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: FILED UNDER K FOR KILL YOUR DARLINGS
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best.
Lust by Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
"Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor, a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband . . . Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, ...Show more