The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May ...Show more
Granta 127: Japan by Yuka Igarashi
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refinement and tradition, and as an embodiment of a shiny, so ...Show more
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Laying on of Hands, the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In, the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on the family of a dying m ...Show more
The Moth: This Is A True Story by Catherine Burns (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a n ...Show more
Bark by Lorrie Moore
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In 'Foes', a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the ev ...Show more
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Winner: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist 2015 Literary Fiction Of The Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015 Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013 Shorlisted: ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writers 2015 UTS Glenda Adams Debut Fic ...Show more
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the Port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the Port of Riohacha' Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshol ...Show more
Collected Stories: Patricia Grace ~ by Patricia Grace
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The collected edition of Patricia Grace's stories brings together all the work contained in her first three books of short stories. It is one of the finest collections of stories by any New Zealand writer. Also available as an eBook
Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Now a major BBC drama starring Timothy Spall, David Walliams and Jennifer Saunders. Published to coincide with the star-filled BBC production of Blandings, this superb new anthology sees these celebrated stories together for the first time. Set in the delightfully dysfunctional mess of Blandings Castle ...Show more
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Jazz Age. A time of opulence and excess. Of boredom and glamour. Of the shifting morals that followed the First World War. The 1920s and '30s were heady decades captured perfectly by Fitzgerald in this collection of short stories. From 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' to 'The Diamond as Big as ...Show more
Live News and Other Stories by Maxine Alterio
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A renowned violinist comes home to a bittersweet family wedding... Lotto saves the day on an aeroplane bound for disaster... Competition mania grips a neglected wife whose husband 'comes out'... A tutu-clad stalker on a unicycle blurs the line between fantasy and reality... Edgy but compassionate, these ...Show more
Queenie by Alice Munro
6.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy ...Show more