Intermissions - Original Stories Selected by Grattan Street Press by Grattan Street Press (Curated by, Arranged by, Selected by, Compiled by, Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Intermissions is an anthology of over 60 original short stories, exploring the complexity of the human condition. The collection brings together musings on love and loss, experimentation, isolation, suffering, intimacy and connection, environmental collapse and the Anthropocene. Carefully curated by Gra ...Show more
The Boat by Nam Le
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
Mixtape - Stories and Essays about The 1980s by Simon Castles
$22.50 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter, but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world, life, hopes, dreams and love. T ...Show more
Artless by Nick Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Two suites of complementary stories set across two sides. Artless is an album of exploratory and experimental prose, where characters dissolve into shapeless cyphers as fact is rendered indistinguishable from fiction.
Liberation Day by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians by James Patterson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title that highlights the magic of books. To be a bookseller or librarian . . . You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of m ...Show more
The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
$32.99 AUD
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
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...Show more
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot- a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us-or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous ...Show more
High Noon at Starbucks Other Stories: and other stories by Richard Freadman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
High Noon at Starbucks is an eloquent and compelling exploration of human particularity in diverse cultural settings: the author's hometown of Melbourne, Trumpite Florida, post-handover Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Its themes include mid-life experience, identity, mental and physical illness, gender, col ...Show more
Inland Writers Series Limited Edition 3-Pack by Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe; Frank Byrne; Carol Adams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This is a limited edition discounted 3-pack of the Inland Writers Series, short reads from the centre of Australia. Featuring Living In Hope by Frank Byrne with Frances Coughlan and Gerard Waterford, Summary of Small Things by Carol Adams and Campfire Satellites; an inland anthology. Published on the im ...Show more
Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino; Archibald Colquhoun (Translator); Ann Goldstein (Translator); Ben Johnson (Translator); William Weaver (Translator); Peggy Wright (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden ...Show more