Winter - (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughterIn Winter,we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter draws near. In preparation for her arrival, he takes ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Twenty-five years after Jesus' Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson "Ranks with the best fiction published by any American writer during this short cen ...Show more
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
What Fear Was by Ben Walter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From vanishing islands to talking flathead and nightmarish bushfires, Ben Walter’s visionary Tasmanian fictions are unique in the landscape of Australian writing. An unemployed man chooses only to apply for jobs advertised in The Economist; a failed mountain expedition is mocked by the dead bodies of pa ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka; Alexander Starritt (Translator)
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers
My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent by Susan Wyndham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The loss of a parent is an experience that we all face without any training - relating to a parent through old age and illness; going through the actual death in different circumstances and whether we can help parents to have a good death; the emotional aftermath - shock, grief, relief, the effect on fa ...Show more
The Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
An array of original stories from around the world bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction: witches. Witches! Whether you know them from Shakespeare or from WICKED, there is no staple more beloved in folklore, fairy tale, or fantasy than these magical beings. Witches ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more
Tenth of December by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
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Your Utopia by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a boui ...Show more