The Great Automatic Grammatizator: And Other Stories by Roald Dahl
17.95 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Thirteen of Roald Dahl's most unexpected tales. Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about the landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? These compelli ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; "Cruise" s ...Show more
Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Beautiful girls. Crime lords. Assassins. Deadly secrets! It's all in a day's work for Bond. Whether he's making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Cuban hit-man in wild country, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoyin ...Show more
Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories by Ian Fleming
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
To celebrate the release of the new James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace", all Ian Fleming's short stories are being published in one volume for the first time. From a "View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico The Hildebrand", "Rarity Octopussy", "The Living Daylights", "The Pr ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield: The Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
34.99 NZD
40.00 (12% off)
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good-very good
Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes, ...Show more
First Love and Other Novellas by Samuel Beckett
22.95 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Includes the novellas "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled".
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
29.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation. 'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent ...Show more
Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'As good as anything he has written...one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' - "Financial Times". 'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells o ...Show more
Rumpole at Christmas by John Mortimer
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be...Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed: exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed (a tie for him; lavender water for her) be ...Show more
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Whilst her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that she collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topp ...Show more
Gabriel Garcia Marquez : Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Short Stories
"Collected Stories" brings together many of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Marquez is known for. Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelli ...Show more