Million Dollar Baby by F.X. Toole
26.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the flood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever. Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and ...Show more
Open Secrets by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Short Stories
The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout these twelve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexceptional and yet inescapable pain of ...Show more
The Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she committed suicide in 1941. It offers a valuable insight into the writer's development, demonstrating her evolving characterizations, narrative methods and themes.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good
In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro's characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven' ...Show more
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisabl ...Show more
Collected Short Stories Volume 1 - W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
32.99 NZD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Short Stories | Series: Maugham Short Stories Ser.
"This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abst ...Show more
Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
34.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
âI am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.â Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allenâs hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allenâs first new collection in 25 years, features eighteen witty, ...Show more
Mums: A celebration of motherhood by Sarah Brown
34.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This glorious celebration of motherhood is edited by Sarah Brown and features stories and personal recollections by popular writers such as Rosamunde Pilcher, Kate Atkinson, Gervaise Phinn, Meera Syal, Alexander McCall Smith, Joanne Harris and many many more. It is sprinkled with wonderfully touching an ...Show more
Collected Stories 2 - Ruth Rendell by Ruth Rendell
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The new collection from Ruth Rendell comprising of the bestselling short stories "The new Girl Friend", "The Coppper Peacock", "Blood Lines", and "Piranha To Scurfy". 'Murders sometimes seem an afterthought to Rendell's stories: the obvious way to closure but not really necessary to compel our attention ...Show more
Collected Stories by Ruth Rendell
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good
This title features three classic Ruth Rendell stories: "Means of Evil", "The Fallen Curtain" and "The Fever Tree". Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices, from Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all ...Show more