The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
$16.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Roald Dahl - the grand master of the short story - turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies. Seven superb stories, full of Roald Dahl's usual magic, mystery and suspense: meet the boy who can talk to animals, the man who can see with his eyes cl ...Show more
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.'..W ...Show more
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked ...Show more
Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia by Demet Divaroren, Amra Pajalic
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In this refreshing and fascinating collection, twelve Muslim-Australians - some well known, some not - reveal their candid, funny and touching stories of growing up with a dual identity.
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
Of Lions and Unicorns: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master Storyteller by Michael Morpurgo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A lifetime of tales from the nation's favourite storyteller, and award-winning author of WAR HORSE - the perfect gift for any book-lover. The most comprehensive and definitive Michael Morpurgo collection ever, this gorgeous hardback edition features twenty-five enchanting short stories by the nation's ...Show more
Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
âe~You come away from Murphyâe(tm)s book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novelâe(tm) Entertainment Weekly First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in literary and social history. This book commemo ...Show more
Granta 129 by Sigrid Rausing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Includes contributions by Anjan Sundaram, Andrea Stuart, Fatima Bhutto, Sam Coll, Joanna Kavenna, Joseph Roth, Michael Cunningham, and Will Self.
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America.From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, hau ...Show more
Invisible Blood by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor); Lee Child; Christopher Fowler; Mary Hoffman; Gavin D. Smith; Jeffrey Deaver
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
FEATURING A BRAND-NEW JACK REACHER STORY A collection of seventeen brand-new crime stories from bestselling authors Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Stella Duffy, and more. KILLER SECRETSFEATURING A BRAND NEW JACK REACHER STORY Open the files on an anthology of seventeen new crime stories to probe the ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
The Carnal Fugues by Catherine McNamara
$32.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese sopr ...Show more