The Forester's Daughter: Faber Stories by Claire Keegan
$8.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord. She watches the dog licking the bowl clean. This dog will break her daughter's heart, she's sure of it. Claire Keegan's mesmeric story takes us into the heart of the Wicklow countryside, and of the farming family of Victo ...Show more
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
$24.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Fiction The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia for ...Show more
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China by Michael Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After fi ...Show more
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An outstanding array--52 pieces in all--of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James. A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginat ...Show more
The Promise (Short Stories) by Tony Birch
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Outstanding new fiction from the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Blood In this breathtaking new work, Tony Birch affirms his position as one of Australia’s finest writers of short-form fiction. Using his unflinching creative gaze, he ponders love and loss and faith. A trio of amateur thieves are le ...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
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In Trigger Warning, global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction, which includes a Doctor Who adventure, the David Bowie-inspired The Return of the Thin White Duke and a never-before publi ...Show more
Welcome to Normal by Nick Earls
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This collection of stories showcase the calibre and versatility of Nick Earls at his perceptive best. An Australian wine-maker tries to crack the Taiwanese market. Two holiday-makers in Spain decide to tell a lie about each other every meal. A man drives home from work trying not to dwell on what he has ...Show more
Well-Behaved Women by Emily Paull
$27.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A woman grapples with survivor's guilt after a body is found in her garden bed; an ageing beauty queen contemplates her past; a world champion free-diver disappears during routine training¿In moments disquieting or quietly inspiring, this collection considers the complexity of the connections we make-wi ...Show more
What Fear Was by Ben Walter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From vanishing islands to talking flathead and nightmarish bushfires, Ben Walter’s visionary Tasmanian fictions are unique in the landscape of Australian writing. An unemployed man chooses only to apply for jobs advertised in The Economist; a failed mountain expedition is mocked by the dead bodies of pa ...Show more
When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson by DATLOW ELLEN
$37.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in trib ...Show more
Who's Loving You - Love in Full Colour by Sareeta Domingo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of short stories from some of the UK's most talented established and emerging writers, celebrating love and desire in all its guises, written by and reflecting the experiences of women of colour. Forbidden love. Lost love. Unrequited love. Love so powerful that it can transcend co ...Show more