Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy
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Category: Short Stories
Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience. Two fourteen year-old girls steal a baby from a shopping centre to play single mothers for the day. A gangster’s girlfriend wonders what to do with the pa ...Show more
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
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Category: Short Stories
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more
Under the Mountain by Geoffrey Dean
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Category: Short Stories
Master of the short story because he has mastered the art of invisi- bility. Dean lets his characters speak for themselves. You forget there is a writer and watch fascinated as stories unfold and secrets revealed. Under the Mountain was a finalist in the 1994 ANUTEC Prize and Loose Ends in the Carson Go ...Show more
The Boy in Time by Stephen Orr
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Category: Short Stories
A plane in the distance, artillery, his father waiting, and the boy wonders what to do. As with every story in this collection, the child born into a world he can't comprehend, but stands waiting for answers, overcome with possibilities. The Boy in Time charts this child's progress from the Outer Hebrid ...Show more
Black Swans - Stories by Eve Babitz
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Category: Short Stories
"Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitz's collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s--decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. ...Show more
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven
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Category: Short Stories
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
Dark Roots (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
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Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 PREMIER'S QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS: AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION OPRAH MAGAZINE 'NEW VOICE OF THE MONTH' In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives -- m ...Show more
Women I Know by Katerina Gibson
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Category: Short Stories
Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.'My God darling - the women I know.'A young woman tries to cheat her algorithm, creating a wholesome online persona while her 'real' life diss ...Show more
Victim (Faber Stories) by P. D. JAMES
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel ...Show more
Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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Category: Short Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay'A wild thing ... covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence o ...Show more
Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009 by Alice Munro
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Category: Short Stories
Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature **'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, he ...Show more
Last Stories by William Trevor
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Category: Short Stories
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales-nine of which have never been published in book form-that illuminate t ...Show more