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
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.... The author's crisp, imagi ...Show more
Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky by Bryan Karetnyk
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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
Manga Yokai Stories by Lafcadio Hearn; Sean Michael Wilson
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Category: Short Stories
This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblinsThe Screen Maiden A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills ...Show more
The Granta Book of the American Short Story - Volume 2 by Richard Ford (ed)
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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
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
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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
An Unknown Sky and Other Stories by Susan Midalia
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Susan Midalia's second collection of short stories offers us a compelling variety of characters, all of them travellers in search of connection and belonging. Tourists in Moscow and Vienna confronted by the weight of history. A young student teacher discovering her capacity for compassion. A teenage boy ...Show more
Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories by Bette Howland
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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
Born Into This by Adam Thompson
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Category: Short Stories
The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from Indigenous rangers trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and co ...Show more
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
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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
Smokehouse by Melissa Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he's turned into a home. A woman's adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and grief. A couple's decision to move to an isolated location may just be their undoing. A young woman forms an unexpected connection at a ...Show more