Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 by Sigrid Rausing
33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent edi ...Show more
Butter - Novellas, Stories and Fragments by Gayl Jones
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' Tayari Jones, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE 'Gayl Jones is a literary legend' - Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of THERE ARE MORE THINGS 'Her prose is intricate, mesmerizing, and endlessly inventive and subversive' Deesha Philyaw, author of T ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more
Kohine ( Kōhine ) by Colleen Maria Lenihan
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Tokyo is a humming backdrop to an array of outsiders: a young woman arrives to work as a stripper, the manager of a love hotel hatches a sleazy plan, a spirit wanders Harajuku, and a mother embarks on a sad journey. Linked through recurring characters and themes, these haunting stories hurtle us into th ...Show more
The Author's Cut - Short Stories by Owen Marshall
36.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Chosen by the author, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination of readers and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they ...Show more
Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
When the stars were rhinestones. When your car was a blue Holden god. When kisses spread to your back teeth, marathons of sucking. When we pashed through jokes, through tunes, through homework, through the leftovers we shovelled out our schoolbags. When you let me tattoo you with talk. Thirty-one exhila ...Show more
The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy ...Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here. The Hound of the Baskervilles sees Holmes and Dr Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confron ...Show more
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edgar Allen Poe
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming ...Show more
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story ...Show more
Deleted Scenes for Lovers by Tracey Slaughter
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
"The knowledge of everyone they're about to hurt is not an element easy to breathe in. They're the lovers. You can blame them now, if you want to. That's your choice: this is the director's cut." Seventeen powerful stories of contemporary New Zealand life from a writer whose penetrating gaze reveals the ...Show more
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the gre ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more