Killing Time: Short stories from the long road home by Jimmy Barnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
The Butcherbird Stories by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' The Australian Twelve stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from Belgrade to Dhaka to New York to Melbourne excite and seduce. But what truly draws the reader in are th ...Show more
A Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic. Is what you see all there is? Look again. Playful, frightening, even shocking- the stories in this collection blur the lines between illusion ...Show more
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
$42.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt's short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will d ...Show more
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, NewburyportThe worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers...Things Are Against Us is the first colle ...Show more
Twice Cursed: An Anthology by Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Sarah Pinborough, M.R. Carey, Marie O'Regan
$21.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Fourteen more tales of terrible curses from the depths of the forest and beyond from the masters of dark fairy tales. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise and many more. In this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology are a further eleven original tales and thre ...Show more
Redeployment by Phil Klay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'We shot dogs. Not by accident. We did it on purpose and we called it "Operation Scooby". I'm a dog person, so I thought about that a lot' So begins this unprecedented book about the human cost of war by former marine captain and Iraq veteran, Phil Klay. Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of t ...Show more
The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The prize-winning Irish short story writer and author of the highly praised novel My Coney Island Baby delivers his most accomplished book of short fiction to date. A poignant story collection that "grips from the opening page" (Bernard MacLaverty).Twelve poignant, quietly dazzling and carefully crafted ...Show more
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Nightmare Before Christmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcas ...Show more
Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories by Bette Howland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted wr ...Show more
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage 'Genius' Alice Walker 'Rigorous, convincing, ...Show more
The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 by Richard Ford (ed)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century. In the fourteen years ...Show more