You Like It Darker by Stephen King
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After LifeIn this first full collection since Not the End of the World, ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee; Heidi Pitlor
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
"Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friends ...Show more
Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts by Claire Donato
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad audience. “Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts is why I want to read. There are few books at all that expand the exploration of family, outsider sex, ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Kirsten Krauth (editor)
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy ...Show more
Night Side of the River (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A modern and masterful collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'A master of her material' VANITY FAIR 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. ...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
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
40.00 NZD
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
How to Gut a Fish by Sheila Armstrong
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
‘Unsettling, unpredictable, and brilliant’ Roddy Doyle ‘In sumptuous and evocative prose, Sheila Armstrong writes stories that are unnerving and unsettling. Stories which make you go, wait, wait, what was that? ’ Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel a ...Show more
Ruin and Other Stories by Emma Hislop
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and sometimes the violence they exact in reveng ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more