This Taste for Silence by Amanda O'Callaghan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: UQP Short Fiction Ser.
The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda ...Show more
Returning to Carthage by Ben Sharafski
$16.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From its shimmering emergence in infatuation and betrayal to the looming threat of irrevocable loss, Ben Sharafski's debut collection Returning to Carthage explores the myriad traces love leaves upon our psyches and our lives. Through perspectives that span generations and cross continents - from WWII M ...Show more
Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed by Mykaela Saunders
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and c ...Show more
The Gorgon Flower by John Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, 'The Gorgon Flower'. A young woman is haunted by the disappearance of her grandmother, a brilliant mathematician whose research unco ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the a ...Show more
If You're Happy by Fiona Robertson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world. The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy. A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2023 by Suzy Garcia (Editor)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best.
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familia ...Show more
Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In 1895 Alfred Nobel rewrote his will and left his fortune made in dynamite and munitions to generations of thinkers. Since 1901 women have been honoured with Nobel Prizes for their scientific research twenty times, including Marie Curie twice. Spanning more than a century and ranging across the world, ...Show more
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners Volume 2 by Olly Richards
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Teach Yourself Foreign L Ser.
Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley,PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersThis second volume of the ...Show more