A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Adult
Before the bushfires--before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills--the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people: in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, on the ...Show more
The Promise (Short Stories) by Tony Birch
$24.99 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
Wild Fearless Chests by Mandy Beaumont
$29.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Brutal. Uncompromising. Magnificent. Complex. Unforgettable. A timely debut short story collection that breaks open the idea of women from a powerful new Australian literary voice.She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of violence imagined on the sk ...Show more
Florida by Lauren Groff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
'Floridaisa magnificent collection, executed withtremendous depth and precision, unsettling in the best possible way.Lauren Groff is a virtuoso.?Emily St John Mandel, author of Station ElevenIn her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in ...Show more
Power (Vintage Minis) by William Shakespeare
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A selection of Shakespeare's greatest speeches and scenes on the subject that fired many of his plays - power.Selected from across Shakespeare's playsVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in t ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more
Independence: Vintage Minis by Charlotte Bronte
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.'We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determi ...Show more
London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Murder (Vintage Minis) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Sherlock Holmes solved cases of forgery, theft and all manner of mysterious events but worst of all were the cases involving murder. Collected here are the short stories involving the darkest and most sinister of all his cases.Selected from the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MI ...Show more
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
$24.95 AUD
$26.95 (7% off)
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
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A masterful collection of heartbreak, travel and seduction from an internationally acclaimed Australian author. These superbly crafted stories follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are travelling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds. We meet them negotiating reluctant departu ...Show more