Kiss Kiss: Short Stories (Adult) by Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister ...Show more
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Sup.. by Alberto Manguel
$37.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life.In this personal reckoning with his favorite ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two by Roald Dahl
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both". (Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction). Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular wr ...Show more
The Book of Tea : Little Black Classic by Kakuzo Okakura
$4.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...Show more
Make Something Up by Chuck Palahniuk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This book includes twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display. In 'Zombies', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from card ...Show more
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
$42.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt's short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will d ...Show more
Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This collection of short stories is about the difficult, serious business of love and hate. Here are characters united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire. Love in a Blue Time charts the growth of a generation, from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of respon ...Show more
Ghost by Louise Welsh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Haunted houses, mysterious Counts, weeping widows and restless souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this beautiful collection of 100 ghost stories will delight, unnerve, and entertain any fiction lover brave enough. ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
Letter from Kalangadoo - The Roly Parks Collection by Bryan Dawe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Roly Parks lives in Kalangadoo, a small in the South East of South Australia. Each week Roly writes a letter to his son, Gene, who lives in London with his partner, Ahmed, a Moroccan ballet dancer, formerly with the Royal Ballet. Roly's letters have been broadcast nationally on ABC radio for over twenty ...Show more
This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: STELLA LL 2018
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short story, poetry, essay, journal, myth and fairy tale. This Water is a collection ...Show more
I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Anne Margaret Daniel (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** 'This belated collection shows us the depths of Fitzgerald's vision and talent. Only now are we beginning to appreciate what was lost' The Pool I'd Die for You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, iconic author of ...Show more