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Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences - or even a page or two - we may see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than occurs in many much longer narratives.In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness and happiness in thirty s ...Show more
Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
Inner Worlds Outer Spaces by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
What does it feel like to be passionate about your daily work? How do people find their way into fascinating, unusually fulfilling careers, even against the odds? Space lawyers and bibliotherapists; euthanasia activists and women's rugby champions; shark experts and solar power visionaries; a master per ...Show more
Lengthening Shadows (Short Stories) by Bob Franklin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The master of creeping unease and unrelenting consequences is back. The vain and the cruel, the indifferent and the excessive, across ten tales of cut corners and grubby compromise, Bob Franklin turns his fairground mirror on contemporary Australia, with a cast of characters navigating modern life and ...Show more
Women of a Certain Rage by Liz Byrski
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Selected and introduced by Liz Byrski Contributors- Anne Aly, Nadine Browne, Nandi Chinna, Claire G. Coleman, Carrie Cox, Eva Cox, Sarah Drummond, Carly Findlay, Goldie Goldbloom, Rafeif Ismail, Margot Kingston, Jay Martin, Meg McKinlay, Olivia Muscat, Mihaela Nicolescu, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Fiona Stan ...Show more
The Lost Journals of Pedro Piscator and Other Tales by Lachlan Plain (Illustrator)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Here's a powerful imagination at work, making dry dusty history a rich realm of fantasy. We read of mythical seas, but smell their salt.' Geoff Lemon, Going Down SwingingThe Lost Journals of Pedro Piscator and other tales is an illustrated collection of tall tales from across the globe and throughout t ...Show more
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Whatever the neighbours insisted would be worth keeping a body for, he always responded that he would still prefer to live as data. A young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transition from an analogue body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a child - her own - from a go ...Show more
The Furphy Anthology 2020 by The Furphy Literary Awards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Joseph Furphy wrote the Australian literary classic, Such is Life, in 1903, under the pen name of ‘Tom Collins’, slang for ‘a tall story’. With its unreliable narrator travelling the countryside and telling the stories of the people he meets, the alias was certainly appropriate. His brother John, a bla ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Land of Big Numbers depicts the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled--messily, violently, but still beautifully--into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen's stories coalesce into a portrai ...Show more
Homo Irrealis by André Aciman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Desire: 100 of Literature's Sexiest Stories by Mariella Frostrup (Editor); Erotic Review (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
100 of literature's sexiest stories, chosen by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review. Strict mistresses, naughty maids, handsome gardners and disarming strangers; literature is awash with love, sex and desire. This collection brings together 100 of the best examples, hand-picked by Mariella Frostrup a ...Show more