The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman
50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
An outstanding array--52 pieces in all--of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James. A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginat ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
I Walk Between the Raindrops by T. C. Boyle
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A joyful, freewheeling, funny and profound new collection from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver)For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neigh ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Andrew Sean Greer
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent ...Show more
Tiny Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences — or even a page or two — we may see the human heart exposed in a way that is more powerful than occurs in many much longer narratives.In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness and happiness in thirty s ...Show more
The Exquisite Art of Getting Even by Alexander McCall Smith
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The characters in this delightful book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. But how we get even is not always the best road to redemption. On the island of Mull, it takes an incomer to make the locals realise that they need to take matters into their own hands to maintain the commu ...Show more
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene by Jonathan Strahan
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.We are living in the Anthropocene-an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorro ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A TIME 'New Books You Should Read'A People magazine 'Book of the Week'A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWith a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric- with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the ...Show more
The Lost World (Collins Classics) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed." In a bid to win the affection of the woman he loves, Edward Malone of the Daily Gazette sets out to interview Professor Cha ...Show more
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku
33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care.. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collec ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The first collection of short fiction from legendary comic book writer Alan Moore Illuminations is a momentous, wildly original collection of short stories from 'the king of comics' (Guardian), each featuring some kind of illumination or realisation. From the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the Boltz ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner. George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world The 'best sh ...Show more