Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop
57.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Featuring two centuries of women's short fiction, ranging from established Queens of the short story like Alice Munro and Angela Carter, to contemporary rising stars like Miranda July and Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, this is the biggest and most beautiful collection in print today. Handpicked by one of the n ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One by Roald Dahl
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "They are brutal, these stories, and yet you finish reading each one with a smile, or maybe even a hollow laugh, certainly a shiver of gratification, because the conclusion always seems so right". (Charlie Higs ...Show more
Actors Anonymous: A novel by James Franco
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, Actors Anonymous is a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and pure invention in an audacious examination of celebrity, acting and the making of fiction. Actors Anonymous is unsettling, funny and personal - a series of stories told in m ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two by Roald Dahl
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both". (Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction). Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular wr ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
27.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
The Mistletoe Bride and Other Ghostly Tales by Kate Mosse
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired by ghost stories, traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by spirits and ghosts seeking revenge; by grief-stricken women and haunted men coming ...Show more
Astray by Emma Donoghue
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. A sequence of fourt ...Show more
Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
27.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay? NOT THE END OF THE WORLD is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories, Playful and profound, they explore the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneat ...Show more
Two Girls in a Boat by Emma Martin
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Two Girls in a Boat is the eagerly-awaited debut collection by the winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Eleven warm and shapely stories in the tradition of Alice Munro, moving between the author’s native New Zealand, London and other locations.
Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet-where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. A man seeks out the father figure ...Show more
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
27.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
"A collection of wistful, witty stories." --Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." --Harper's Bazaar A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He onl ...Show more
Astray by Emma Donoghue
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, ...Show more