I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories by Laura van den Berg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.comAs enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exqui ...Show more
Polluted Sex by Lauren Foley
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Category: Short Stories
**Shortlisted, The Barbellion Prize****Shortlisted, The Irish Book Awards**A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK.A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend.Two ungendered characters contest the same female body.A deserted wife takes a lover ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
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Category: Short Stories
A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murder ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories by Various
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Category: Short Stories
This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices ...Show more
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCraken
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Category: Short Stories
One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date.In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fo ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories by Sean O'Beirne
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This brilliant collection mixes the storytelling originality of George Saunders and Lydia Davis with a sensibility all its own, taking the reader on an extraordinary tour of old and new Australia - and into a very frightening future. A woman on a passenger ship in 1958 gets involved with a young, wild ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
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Category: Short Stories
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most important and influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Julian BarnesThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNESW ...Show more
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life - immersive, comic and unsparing - by an indisputable talent. Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodia ...Show more
All the Unloved by Susan McCreery
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Category: Short Stories
Is it a painting? Is it a poem? No, it's a novella as an act of prestidigitation. And it will become a classic. In a fresh, free, engaging style, Susan McCreery explores the histories - tragic, comic, mundane - of lives in a Bondi apartment block. The camera angles of the elegant, sensual prose shift a ...Show more
Anonymous Sex by Hillary Jordan & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (edited by)
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Category: Short Stories
Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity… A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference · Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire · In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be · A young ...Show more
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Erato the Mid-nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (ed.)
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Category: Short Stories
The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty – from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century – is the focus of this impressive volume. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth century novels is in ...Show more