Antarctica by Claire Keegan
24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These. 'Perfect short stories.' Anne Enright'Breath-taking.' Irish Times'Her stories are as good as Chekhov.' David Mitchell A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor. A priest seeks solace from a romanti ...Show more
After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in ...Show more
Elsewhere by Yan Ge
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star - nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing. 'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' - SARAH HALL 'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' - DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN 'Preci ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories by Bruce Fulton, Kwon Youngmin
74.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of l ...Show more
This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Fernanda Melchor blends reportage with her distinctive narrative style in this collection of stories. Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicas-a genre unique to Latin American writing, blending r ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts - in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.The games and rituals performed by Katheri ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust by Patrick McGuinness (editor)
75.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A major new celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries 'Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here...' The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly t ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A poignant and compelling collection of short stories about those whose lives have been marked by the risk of displacement, from the winner of the AKO Caine Prize. 'Witty and wistful, complex and heartbreaking, these stories capture lives caught between cultures and continents, past and present, truth ...Show more
Ghosts from the Library - Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Tony Medawar (Editor)
37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills.It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives - to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, peop ...Show more