The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
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Category: Short Stories
A father and son muse on the value of fame and fortune and the path of chujia or receding from the world by becoming a monk. On Christmas Eve a lonely immigrant travels from his deserted outer suburb to the city in search of life. Spouses navigate their adult son's need to 'rebrand' himself with an Engl ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
The Best Japanese Short Stories Works by 14 Modern Masters Kawabata, Akutagawa and More by Lane Dunlop
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutaga ...Show more
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT. A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told she must find a father for her unborn baby or face horrific consequences. A young monster, forced to fight, discovers the extent of his po ...Show more
Complete Short Stories of A. A. Milne by A A Milne
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Category: Short Stories
The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley by Elizabeth Bowen
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Category: Short Stories
A beautiful paperback edition of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley.'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl ...Show more
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
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Category: Short Stories
'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in years' Sinead GleesonA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe secrets people kept, the lies th ...Show more
Ink and Daggers by Maxim Jakubowski, Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler, Lavie Tidhar, Christine Poulson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans 400 years, taking the ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Short Stories | Series: VMC
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...Show more
Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
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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
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