Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
$29.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
The Siren's Lament - Essential Stories by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
Te Awa o Kupu by Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Kiri Piahana-Wong (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Through poetry and short stories, over 80 contemporary Maori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. Chosen for their verbal dexterity, originality and insight, they express compassion, ...Show more
Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes by Nora Shalaway Carpenter (Editor); Rocky Callen (Editor)
$47.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save his town by (gulp) working with people. As p ...Show more
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories (PB) by Terry Pratchett
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A beautifully packaged, illustrated collection of twenty rediscovered early short stories by award-winning and bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett- award-winning and bestselling author, a ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise! One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who ...Show more
Dream Girl by Joy Holley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she wants Lena to rescue her from a rat, but really she wants Lena to make out with her. Eve wants to get Wallace alone at the strawberry farm. Olivia just wants to leave the haunted boarding school and go ho ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Since the publication of Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-fo ...Show more
The Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing by Patrick Barkham
$45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The very best of British and Irish nature writing selected by the natural history writer Patrick Barkham.The landscapes of Britain and Ireland, together with the creatures and plants that inhabit them, have penetrated deep in our collective imagination. From Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth to Lauri ...Show more
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne
$45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share great triumphs and deep despairs; to praise the virtues of their lover, extol their loneliness and proc ...Show more