Heroes Next Door by Samuel Johnson, Hilde Hinton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From bestselling authors Samuel Johnson and Hilde Hinton comes a moving, funny, irreverent, inspiring and big-hearted book that shows us all that resilience and kindness are what make the difference, and that you don't have to travel far to find good people ... often they are right next door. When Samu ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Yarns by Bill Marsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh.
Mothermorphosis by Monica Dux
$1.00 AUD
$27.99 (96% off)
Category: Short Stories
The mythology of motherhood is often reduced to clich . But how do we articulate the complex internal conflicts, the exhilaration and the absurdity of this transformation? Mothermorphosis is a collection of essays on the experience as told by some of Australia's most talented writers and storytellers. I ...Show more
New Great Australian Flying Doctor Stories by Bill Marsh
$12.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
"Where's your thumb?" the doctor asked the injured ringer. "Oh, we stuck it over there on the gatepost, fer safe keepin'." And just as the doctor turned around to the gatepost, he saw a crow heading skyward, thumb and all. From the pilots, doctors and nurses who spread their 'mantle of safety' throughou ...Show more
Old-Timers by Sandy Thorne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In Old-Timers jillaroo cum opal miner cum bush humourist, Sandy Thorne, has assembled 20 vital snapshots of Australian life that tantalise with their energy, originality and genuine pioneering spirit. Meet Jenny Marshall, contract musterer, ex-amateur jockey, known as 'F...kin' Jenny' after her favourit ...Show more
The Best Australian Yarns: And Other True Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia.This collection includes ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
$1.00 AUD
$32.99 (96% off)
Category: Short Stories
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
The Outback by Boolarong Press
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
This collection of short stories about the Outback is the result of the inaugural writing competition for the Outback Writers Festival held in Winton on 21, 22, 23 June 2016.
The Outback: Anthology of Short Stories: Volume 2 by Boolarong Press
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Anthology of short stories about the Outback
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium by Prudence Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales — its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people tha ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: General Adult
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more