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First Person Singular - Stories by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny - the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken. Prize-winning author Chloe Wilson's stories will pin you to the page. 'Chilling ...Show more
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husb ...Show more
Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler
$36.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
220 dazzling folktales from medieval Japan, selected and edited by the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji
Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014 ROXANE GAY'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2014 AN AMAZON BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF 2014 AN iBOOK BEST OF 2014 Perfectly pi ...Show more
Ghost Stories - Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense by Leslie S. Klinger (Editor); Lisa Morton (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers--including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton--presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Mor ...Show more
Pastoralia by George Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
`Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times' Thomas Pynchon In PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and amplified into a slightly skewed version of modern America. A couple ...Show more
Collisions: Fictions of the Future: an Anthology of Australian Writers Of Colour by Leah Jing McIntosh + Cher Tan et al ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This collection of short stories showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer in this new decade. Featuring work from both emerging and established writers of colour, the stories in Collisions transcend genre and experiment with style. They are necessary reading for everybody ...Show more
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
$19.99 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 friendshi ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Shirley Hazzard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories. Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collect ...Show more