Two of the Deadliest by Elizabeth George
38.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Anger, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, lust, greed and pride. The Seven Deadly sins. Doesn't every major crime have one of these deadly sins at its root? This volume selects two of them, lust and greed, as the inspiration for a selection of brand new stories, chosen and edited by internationally bestselling ...Show more
Seven Tales of Sex and Death by Patricia Duncker
26.99 NZD
29.95 (9% off)
Category: Short Stories
Both revealing and disturbing, these eponymous tales explore themes of perversity and power, lust and mortality, offering the reader a disquieting feast of debauchery and decadence. This collection of interwoven stories is a gripping, haunting read, with an edgy tone reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe at ...Show more
Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
27.99 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Short Stories
Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet bec ...Show more
War : Stories of Conflict by Michael Morpurgo
16.99 NZD
19.99 (15% off)
Category: Short Stories
A superb collection of new stories from acclaimed children's writers, compiled by former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.
Cat O' Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer
23.99 NZD
25.00 (4% off)
Category: Short Stories
"Cat O' Nine Tales" is the sixth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle, creator of "Molesworth". These twelve yarns are so satisfying because they are ingeniously plotted, include richly drawn characters an ...Show more
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulti ...Show more
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In 'Fiftieth' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, "What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now bei ...Show more
And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This title presents story telling of the highest calibre. Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favourite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H. H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Archer has wri ...Show more
And Thereby Hangs A Tale by Jeffrey Archer
49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favorite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H. H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Archer has written five bestselling collections over the years and Macmil ...Show more
Pulse by Julian Barnes
49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
The stories in Julian Barnes’ long awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings. In ‘East Wind’ a divorced ...Show more
Beginners by Raymond Carver
42.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: RC
Tim O'Brien once said of Raymond Carver, 'He uses the English language like a whittler's knife, carving stark and unadorned prose-objects, paring away everything but the very core of human emotion'. "Beginners" is Carver's most famous collection of short stories - "What We Talk About When We Talk About ...Show more
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
54.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden dur ...Show more