Strange Bliss: Essential Stories by Katherine Mansfield
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A beguiling new selection of Katherine Mansfield's finest stories, focused on her mysterious, complex portrayals of relationships between women. Katherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic and the tragic, as calm surfaces are punctured ...Show more
A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories by John Cheever
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most important and influential short story writer. Selected and introduced by Julian BarnesThe first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNESW ...Show more
The Pink Jumpsuit - Short Fictions, Tall Truths by Emma Neale
14.99 NZD
35.00 (57% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Emma Neale’s first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships. There are ...Show more
Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich
37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2021' by Lit Hub and The Millions 'Sestanovich's elegant prose takes seriously the quiet unrest that can ravage a life' - Raven Leilani, author of Luster 'Astonishing - one of the best story collections I've read in a long time' Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author ...Show more
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The secrets people kept, the lies they told.In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty material, ...Show more
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch. How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors a ...Show more
Male Tears - Stories by Benjamin Myers
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
'One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times' David PeaceIn Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
Maeve Binchy's Treasury by Maeve Binchy
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Over 40 delightful stories drawn from The Return Journey and This Year it will be Different, plus eight new autobiographical stories.
Funny Ha Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton (Editor)
37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Sunday TimesHumour Book of the Year. 80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to laugh. Here, award-winning comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton br ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Tenderness Short Stories by Sarah Quigley
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Very Good
A superb collection of stories from a prize-winning writer – some short, some long, set in locations that span the globe, all exploring the theme encapsulated by the title: tenderness. Meet Sadie, the high-flying divorce lawyer who ends up putting marriages back together; the Ice Cream Girl, discovered ...Show more