Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh
38.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Presents a collection of stories that reflect the author's vaulting imagination, vernacular ear, dark, scabrous humor and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction.
Paris Metro Tales by Helen Constantine
19.99 NZD
29.99 (33% off)
Category: Short Stories | Series: City Tales
Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck- ...Show more
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories by BYATT A S
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging f ...Show more
Maurice Duggan - Collected Stories by Maurice Duggan
19.95 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oxford Book of NZ Short Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
34.95 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This anthology presents 50 stories by over 40 of New Zealand's best writers. Nineteenth-century writing, which is largely unknown, is represented by Clara Cheeseman and G B Lancaster, as well as by the more familiar Lady Barker and itinerant Henry Lawson. In the early twentieth century Katherine Mansfi ...Show more
The Puffin Treasury of New Zealand Children's Stories (#4) by Jenni Keestra
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Short Stories
Another wonderful treasury of timeless children's stories that will appeal to New Zealand families - adults and children - as has been proven by the success of Volumes 1, 2 and 3. From picture books to poems to excerpts from brilliantly written stories for older children, the appeal of this value-for-m ...Show more
The Man in the Shed - Stories by Lloyd Jones
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl." From Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in "Of Mice and Men," t ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
19.99 NZD
35.00 (42% off)
Category: Short Stories
Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashömon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upsi ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity, and violenceathis magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in two volumesa"Collected Short Stories" and "The Last Word and Other Stories"athese forty-nine stories rev ...Show more
Witi Ihimaera: His Best Stories by Witi Ihimaera
29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In this definitive collection by one of New Zealand's best-loved authors, Witi Ihimaera offers his personal choice of twenty-four stories from throughout his illustrious career. The pieces span more than thirty-five years - since his first collection, Pounamu Pounamu(1972), was published - and showcase ...Show more
Rough Diamonds and Real Gems by R.M. Winn
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This inspiring collection features nine captivating stories about ordinary bush men and women who lead extraordinary lives. There's the island cattleman who swims his herd past toothy sharks and beady-eyed crocs; the pineapple grower who builds a stone church for his community; the timber worker who be ...Show more