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Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In this entertaining collection of stories, Louis de Bernieres introduces us to a man who turns his life around through developing his hobby of collecting cat-food tin labels. We also meet a traveller who embarks on a confusing love affair in Colombia, a dolphin romance and, in 'Gunter Weber's Confessi ...Show more
Friday Black - Stories PB by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice."--Tommy Orange,New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." --George Saunders "Dark and captivating and essential . . . A call to arms and a ...Show more
Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya; Asa Yoneda (Translator)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 'In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors Banana Yoshimoto and Sayaka Murata, but the sto ...Show more
Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
$32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been so magically combined. It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable. Each of these startlingly original stori ...Show more
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
$37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link. In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women's experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers' sle ...Show more
Midsummer Nights (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In celebration of the Glyndebourne Festival, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. Includes an introduction by Jeanette Winterson, Alexander McCall Smith on Cosi Fan Tutte, Ali Smith on Fidelio ...Show more
Girl, Balancing and other stories by Helen Dunmore
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she explores the fragile ties between passion, love, family, friendship ...Show more
Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin (Editor); Haruki Murakami (Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Mura ...Show more
Roar by Cecelia Ahern
$22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Cecelia Ahern at her quirky, magical best' Daily MailFrom international bestseller Cecelia Ahern come thirty stories that speak to us all: the women who befriend us, the women who encourage us, the women who make us brave. From The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared to The Woman Who Returned and Exchanged he ...Show more
All the Names They Used for God - Stories by Anjali Sachdeva
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
"One of the best collections I've ever read. Every single story is a standout."--Roxane Gay "Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments."--Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See "Strange and wonderful . . . delightfu ...Show more
Classic Works from Women Writers by Canterbury Classics Staff (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
A fine collection of classic novels, short stories, poems, and essays from distinguished women writers. Women writers have been making their voices heard for centuries, but their works were not always taken seriously. Over time, as women gained more social and political freedom, these works hav ...Show more
Robots and Artificial Intelligence Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio (Created by); Sara L. Uckelman (Contribution by)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
The promise and the threat of technology, of humankind replaced by its own mechanical creation has long enticed the SF and fantasy imagination. This fabulous mix of new and established writing brings together the top talents of today with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome, E.T.A. Hoffman, L. Frank Baum and ...Show more
