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
Cardiff, by the Sea by Joyce Carol Oates
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Seais a bold, haunting collection of four never-before-seen novellas. In the titular novella, a Pennsylvania academic discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has ...Show more
Life Without Children: Stories by Roddy Doyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly writ ...Show more
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller
$44.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the 100 finest short stories ever written. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, t ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2022: A New Collection of Short Fiction From Kill Your Darlings by Suzy Garcia (Series edited by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
New Australian Fiction 2022 is Kill Your Darlings’ fourth annual collection of short fiction and features some of Australia’s best-loved writers alongside exciting new voices. PRAISE FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION 2022: ‘Inventive, poignant, and always captivating, this is a beautifully curated collection ...Show more
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author’s own hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a sc ...Show more
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Short Stories
"Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,"* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible"I really loved all the characters in this book. They're so complex and interesting, and in every story, you'll fi ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, ...Show more
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, visionary blak+black fiction by Rafeif Ismail, Ellen van Neerven
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: 1st
In partnership with Djed Press, Fremantle Press brings 21 emerging and established own-voice writers together to imagine a new future.Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice speculative fiction from First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invis ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more