The (Other) You: Stories *US Ed. by Joyce Carol Oates
$15.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accompli ...Show more
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator); Bryan Karetnyk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust by Patrick McGuinness (editor)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A major new celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries 'Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here...' The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly t ...Show more
Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 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
Best Australian Stories 2015 by Amanda Lohrey (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Some readers are drawn to the promise inherent in a novel, and it's true that the longer form can offer a slow and seductive immersion, but the short story offers pleasure of another kind - the quick fix, a shot of adrenaline to the mind and heart.' -Amanda Lohrey In The Best Australian Stories 201 ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper by Lawrence Block
$36.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"Edward Hopper is surely the greatest American narrative painter. His work bears special resonance for writers and readers." Says Lawrence Block, who has invited seventeen outstanding writers to join him in an unprecedented anthology of brand new stories. The results are remarkable and range across all ...Show more
Hidden Realms Short Stories by Lori Campbell-Tanner (Foreword by); Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) (Created by)
$52.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
With new stories by modern writers and classic tales from many traditions, Hidden Realms Short Storiesdelves into the secret corridors, the hidden doors at the end of the alley, the hole in the trunk of an ancient oak. This new collection of fantasy stories continues the bestselling Gothic Fantasy serie ...Show more
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II vetera ...Show more
A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourself a very hygge Christmas with some of the best Christmas stories from across Scandinavia - old and new This collection brings together the best Scandinavian ...Show more
Turbulence by David Szalay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A woman strikes up a conversation with the man sitting next to her on a plane after some turbulence. He returns home to tragic news that has also impacted another stranger, a shaken pilot on his way to another continent who seeks comfort from a journalist he meets that night. Her life shifts subtly as w ...Show more
Oblivion Stories by David Foster Wallace
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ...He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' ZADIE SMITH A recognised ...Show more