Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A debut collection of stories in the tradition of George Saunders or Kelly Link that announced the arrival of a major new storytelling talent. Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated ...Show more
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage 'Genius' Alice Walker 'Rigorous, convincing, ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the ...Show more
Maeve Binchy's Treasury by Maeve Binchy
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Over 40 delightful stories drawn from The Return Journey and This Year it will be Different, plus eight new autobiographical stories.
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Opening Little Boxes by Kees Lodder, Cathy Casey, Manuela Bertão, Alex Casey
19.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Opening Little Boxes is a series of reflections by three generations of a family living in one home during the COVID-19 lockdown. Each chapter is written from the perspective of a different family member (including two pets). The characters reveal their inner concerns and feelings and find their way ...Show more
Gothic Short Stories by David Blair
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ...Show more
SHORT STORIES FOR CREATIVE LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS by Joanne Collie
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of powerful, unabridged stories, accompanied by activities for creative language classrooms. Short Stories includes eleven vivid and memorable short stories written by a variety of authors from different backgrounds between the nineteenth century and the present day. Due to their powerful i ...Show more
All the Way to Summer - Stories of Love and Longing by Fiona Kidman
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy. Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love ...Show more
Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Characterised by its own brand of pleasingly unsettling magic, Naomi Ishiguro's ESCAPE ROUTES matches the inventiveness of David Mitchell with the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter. A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother's airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a floc ...Show more
The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The prize-winning Irish short story writer and author of the highly praised novel My Coney Island Baby delivers his most accomplished book of short fiction to date. A poignant story collection that "grips from the opening page" (Bernard MacLaverty).Twelve poignant, quietly dazzling and carefully crafted ...Show more