Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered cha ...Show more
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author’s own hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a sc ...Show more
A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël by Various
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourself a very hygge Christmas with some of the best Christmas stories from across Scandinavia - old and new This collection brings together the best Scandinavian ...Show more
The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of stories written by the late Carlos Ruiz Zafan as a thank you to the countless fans of his bestselling The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits books Return to the mythical Barcelona library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, in this posthumous collection of stories from Ca ...Show more
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 by Lisa Morton
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror writers from 1852-1923. While the nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley may be hailed as the first modern writer of horror, the success of her immortal Frankenstein undoubtedly inspired do ...Show more
Life Without Children: Stories by Roddy Doyle
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly writ ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Various
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the ...Show more
Metamorphosis - Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate, and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience. In intimate stories of growing up and growing ol ...Show more
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers by Lisa Morton
49.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Following the success of Weird Women: Volume 1, acclaimed anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers, including George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton. Following the succes ...Show more
The Pink Jumpsuit - Short Fictions, Tall Truths by Emma Neale
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In Emma Neale’s first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships. There are ...Show more
The Piano Girls by Elizabeth Smither
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Three musical sisters honour their mother with a piano recital every year in her memory. They compete with one another, practising in secret to see who can be the best. In other stories, music, food, and restaurants are themes. There is a woman who fends off a seducer by cooking up a storm; Fire Lady pr ...Show more
Strange Bliss: Essential Stories by Katherine Mansfield
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A beguiling new selection of Katherine Mansfield's finest stories, focused on her mysterious, complex portrayals of relationships between women. Katherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic and the tragic, as calm surfaces are punctured ...Show more