I Walk Between the Raindrops by T. C. Boyle
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neigh ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent ...Show more
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A TIME 'New Books You Should Read'A People magazine 'Book of the Week'A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWith a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric- with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the ...Show more
Metamorphosis by Penelope Lively
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
An exquisite selection of the best short stories from one of our best loved writersWry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long ...Show more
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries: The Most Complete Collection of Yuletide Whodunits Ever Assembled by Otto Penzler
42.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the 100 best Yuletide whodunnits. A Times Book of the Year 2014. This Christmas crime anthology stars Poirot, Marple, Rebus, More, Rumpole, Sherlock, Cadfael and many, many more. Festive felonies, unscrupulous santas, deadly pud ...Show more
We Two Alone - Stories by Jack Wang
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years. Set on five continen ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
34.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The first collection of short fiction from legendary comic book writer Alan Moore Illuminations is a momentous, wildly original collection of short stories from 'the king of comics' (Guardian), each featuring some kind of illumination or realisation. From the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the Boltz ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner. George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world The 'best sh ...Show more
Return to Harikoa Bay by Owen Marshall
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
New work from the master of the short story and author of the story 'Coming Home in the Dark' made into a major feature film. 'Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it's always in a strong wind, and that's blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.' So begins on ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
11.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Evergreens Ser.
On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the parti ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more