Being Various - New Irish Short Stories by Lucy Caldwell (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Edited by prize-winning author and playwright Lucy Caldwell, Being Various brings together original stories from Ireland's current golden age of writing with some exciting new voices, never before published. Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the si ...Show more
The Memory Pool: Stories from Australian Childhoods at the Pool by Therese Spruhan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool. Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chl ...Show more
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"Sarah Hall is one of those rare writers whose short fiction has the same luminosity as her novels. But the short form allows her more room to probe and roam, to experiment with form, to sink her fingers into the earth."--The Observer (London) Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and e ...Show more
Animal Wife by Lara Ehrlich
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks," said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are unified by girls and women who cross th ...Show more
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
$34.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Pantheon Modern Writers Ser.
Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
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
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
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