It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times London]) A Penguin Classic "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have." --The New York Times Book Review In It A ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Winner: Sydney Morning Heral ...Show more
Beautiful Days - Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike o ...Show more
Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: General Adult
Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere and forged new lives in exile. Much of their subsequent work, published in Russian-language magazines and books, is entirely unknown in the West and has only be ...Show more
The Burnished Sun by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance.From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain come these superbly crafted stories that ex ...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
Slinkies 2023 - New Writers Under 30 by Emma Wortley (Editor); Ch'aska Cuba de Reed (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
How do Millennials deal with age-old issues like break-ups? Will a visit to your childhood hometown open your eyes to your adult life? What would the natural world actually say if it were given a voice?Welcome to this diverse collection of contemporary stories from exciting new writers under 30 years of ...Show more
Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompass ...Show more
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Fiction The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia for ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Lahiri, Jhumpa
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many cap ...Show more
This Taste for Silence by Amanda O'Callaghan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: UQP Short Fiction Ser.
The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda ...Show more
Best Summer Stories by Aviva Tuffield
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Brilliant short fiction from some of Australia's most talented storytellers A woman suspects her partner of murder. A father seeks to save his son from a looming disaster. A boy finds love in the heat of summer as a dust storm transforms his city and his fortunes. A guard in a detention centre causes t ...Show more