You Like It Darker by Stephen King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, ...Show more
Only the Astronauts: The transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After LifeIn this first full collection since Not the End of the World, ...Show more
Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro
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Category: Short Stories
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary m ...Show more
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
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Category: Short Stories
Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby. A housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. A young girl accepts a lift in a car with a group of strangers. An old friend brings bad news to a dinner party. In these gripping and unsettling stories, the ordinary is m ...Show more
Runaway by Alice Munro
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Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and w ...Show more
Gunflower (Short Stories) by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship plows through the patriarchy. A support group finds sola ...Show more
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories (PB) by Terry Pratchett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A beautifully packaged, illustrated collection of twenty rediscovered early short stories by award-winning and bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett- award-winning and bestselling author, a ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Short Stories
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the North (#0.5 His Dark Materials) (Illustrated HB) by Philip Pullman
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Category: Short Stories
When Lyra is studying at Oxford University, she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting, many years ago, along with much evidence of the adventure that brought them together. She discovers that when a young Texan balloonist Lee came down to earth in the harbour of an ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise! One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Short Stories
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more