That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: this collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect present for any fiction lover.
The Age of Fibs: New and selected by Beth Spencer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
WINNER OF THE 2018 CARMEL BIRD DIGITAL LITERARY AWARDBeth Spencer’s new and expanded edition of her award-winning collection, The Age of Fibs, crosses boundaries of genre, time, history and desire; meditating on how we create ourselves through culture and stories, and why it matters.An Angel is suspende ...Show more
The Art of the Glimpse - 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinéad Gleeson (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Anthos Ser.
The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019. There have been many anthologies of the sho ...Show more
The Art of the Tale - An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985 by Daniel Halpern (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Eighty-one masterpieces by the world's best writers a surprising, irresistible collection of short stories from around the world."
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Good
We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories - stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern- the tales in this book pulse with a vi ...Show more
The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More by Thersa Matsuura
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: World Mythology and Folklore Ser.
Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey th ...Show more
The Burnt Ones - Short Stories by Patrick White
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"Eleven stories to which Patrick White brings his immense understanding of the urges which lie just beneath the facade of ordinary human relationships, especially those between men and women. A girl beset by her mother's influence, who marries her father's friend. . . A young man strangely moved into ma ...Show more
The Butcherbird Stories by A. S. Patric
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
New paperback edition of highly praised collection of stories.'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' The Australian Eleven stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from a Bangla jungle to the deep, blue Danube ...Show more
The Butcherbird Stories by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' The Australian Twelve stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from Belgrade to Dhaka to New York to Melbourne excite and seduce. But what truly draws the reader in are th ...Show more
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'A love letter to Japan and its literature.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan'Beguiling' Elizabeth Macneal_______________In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk o ...Show more
The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind. "This is my attempt to write as painting, not about it; an attempt to replicate thought, struggle, the struggle of thoug ...Show more