A Map Of The Gardens by Gillian Mears
$21.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Collection of short stories examining people, relationships and emotions. Includes stories of Farina the prostitute, Ron and Muriel's friendship garden, and Dr Took and his caged quarrion. Examines themes of love, loss and renewal. Author has previously written a collection of short stories 'Fineflour' ...Show more
Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisherman playing a flute on the banks of the Mekong, and Paganini in the borderlands of e ...Show more
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES expl ...Show more
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror. Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous writer Lafcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories--"delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches"--about his adopted land. Many ...Show more
Touring the Land of the Dead by Maki Kashimada
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A dream-like, emotionally charged tale by a bold new voice in Japanese fiction.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories by Laura van den Berg
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.comAs enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exqui ...Show more
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Full of love, melancholy and magic - the new story collection from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier. 'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer In this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of ...Show more
Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*'Outstanding.' Guardian'Eleven perfect stories.' Irish Independent'Glorious.' The Times'My FAVE collection ever.' Pandora SykesIn eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place ...Show more
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...Show more
Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Grief, loss, pain, love, and the future - an achingly human debut short story collection, from the winner of the 2019 Richell Prize. 'Thrilling, prescient, and deeply moving ... an electrifying new voice in Australian fiction.' Emily Bitto 'clear eyes, sharp intellect and deep sorrow - both lament and p ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more