Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson by Jack Remiel Cottrell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
With a crisp insouciance and gliding charm, Jack Cottrell's fiery, fey, finely-tuned fictions leap from sci-fi to fantasy, comedy to horror, literary realism to romance, and to hybrids of all of these.Featuring sport, friendship, love, health, family, climate change, artificial intelligence, desire, mag ...Show more
Selected Stories Volume One: 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle ...Show more
Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009 by Alice Munro
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature **'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, he ...Show more
The Commercial Hotel by John Summers
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
When John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life - our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills - he saw something deeper. It was a story about his own life, but mostly about a place and its people. The ...Show more
Male Tears - Stories by Benjamin Myers
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times' David PeaceIn Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, ...Show more
Between the Covers by Jilly Cooper
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'One truth I have learnt, as middle age enmeshes me like Virginia creeper, is that I shall never change-because my capacity for self-improvement is absolutely nil.' A classic collection of journalism from the legendary Jilly Cooper. Wonderfully warm and astonishingly acerbic, Jilly's observations from h ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
Life: Great Short Stories by Women (The Story) by Victoria Hislop (Ed)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The Story
'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in this volume ...Show more
Loss: Great Short Stories by Women (The Story) by Victoria Hislop (Ed)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The Story
'I think few of the stories in Loss will leave readers cold...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in ...Show more
Love: Great Short Stories by Women (The Story) by Victoria Hislop (Ed)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The Story
'Love is, of course, a central preoccupation of literature...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. Love is represented ...Show more
Classic Dog Stories by HALLEY, ED. NED
$25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
From the grit of a frontier man's dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they're all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These be ...Show more
Classic Cat Stories by Becky Brown (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The Collector's Library
Cats, be they much loved pets or inscrutable creatures, lend themselves to stories and literary invention. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited by Becky Brown.C ...Show more