A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
"The Drover's Wife" and Other Stories by Bail Murray
$23.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Here is the updated edition of Murray Bail's remarkable collection of short stories, first published in 1975. In addition to established classics such as 'The Drover's Wife'and 'Huebler', this edition includes a number of new stories. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
$7.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
To Be a Man - Stories by Nicole Krauss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Deftly weaving from one end of life to another o from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illumina ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Bea ...Show more
Lengthening Shadows (Short Stories) by Bob Franklin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The master of creeping unease and unrelenting consequences is back. The vain and the cruel, the indifferent and the excessive, across ten tales of cut corners and grubby compromise, Bob Franklin turns his fairground mirror on contemporary Australia, with a cast of characters navigating modern life and ...Show more
That Glimpse Of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The 100 finest short stories ever written, collected in one volume. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both ...Show more
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...Show more
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage b ...Show more
Byobu by Ida Vitale; Sean Manning (Translator)
$24.50 AUD
Category: Short Stories
a story's existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage, just barely latent, emits vague but urgent emanations. Byobu's every interaction trembles with possibility and faint menace. A crack in the walls of his house, marring it forever, means he must burn it ...Show more
Love in Colour - Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
$23.84 AUD
Category: Short Stories
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on BBC2 Between the Covers 'Beautifully written and full of joy. Bolu Babalola is a star.' Meg Cabot 'Here is love as freedom, love as deep joy. Romance will never be dead, as long as Bolu is writing it.' Jessie Burton Bolu Babalola finds the most beautiful love ...Show more