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This collection contains Gogol''s finest tales - from the demon-haunted St John''s Eve and Viy to the surrealism of The Nose, from the trials of the copyist in The Overcoat...

Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection. N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful...

A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. Praise for the world of the Celestial Kingdom duology: 'Epic, romantic, and enthralling...

In The Best Australian Stories 2008 , Delia Falconer brings together the year's most exciting short fiction. Featuring well-known favourites as well as fresh new voices, this sparkling collection is...

A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid 'The Misfit', an escaped convict who's reportedly heading...

A milestone in Hemingway's career, this second collection of short stories brings to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist, from thr Nobel Prize-winning author...

Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America,...

A devious collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, featuring appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw. Amongst the dead ends ... A murder at a crime writers'...

Breaking Beauty puts one of the greatest obsessionsof our time under the spotlight and shows that beautyrarely exists without its grubby underbelly. There is nolight without darkness.Our writers-sparkling talents both...

'.eros, like art involves risk, the risk of pregnancy, the risk of disease - or commitment, the greatest risk of all. And like art, it will bring you to the...

The book titled Knitting Emily Bridget by the author Elizabeth Stead. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a...

Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two...

In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism....

A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wife's voice. A poet...

The stories in this collection explore how characters respond to some of the most intriguing and urgent issues of our time, including genetic experimentation, nuclear fallout, and ongoing and destructive...

A brilliant short story collection by awarded novelist and former Vogel winner Bernard Cohen. Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the...

The book titled The Book of Sei by the author David Brooks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As editor of McSweeney's ('America's most interesting publication' in the words of Time Out), Dave Eggers has been partly responsible for a rejuvenation of short fiction in the USA. At...

The book titled Humorous Stories by the author Henry Lawsson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** 'The greatest living short story writer' A. S. Byatt, Sunday Times **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Born into the back streets...

The stories in this celebrated collection are about ordinary women, men and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, they confront their fates with hard-won optimism,...

The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and...

Set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley, a collection of linked stories that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence, centered on the short life and long...

'Well-served by his excellent translator, Gerald Turner, his beautifully constructed fictions are full of life and colour, of observation as affecting as it is precise, and of a robust sympathy...

The book titled A Model World and Other Stories by the author Michael Chabon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a...

The book titled Bliss by the author Katherine Mansfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an 'accidental', an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary...

These are tales of fugitive lives: dazzling portraits of women and men on the run; from their present, their past, their future - from themselves... Here, finally, is the complete...

This sparkling anthology offers 29 of the best marriages of comedy and fiction. A deliciously varied collection of comic short stories, representing the cream of twentieth century humour.

If you could be anything, what would you be? And what happens to the people you leave behind? In Portalmania , Debbie Urbanski wields sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and realism to...

Located in familiar Australian settings, this collection of stories brilliantly weaves together authentic characters and adverse scenarios. This is the final collection in the Long Story Shorts series.

Are we slaves to destiny or architects of our own fate? Bearings is about challenging the course of our lives as well as keeping a foothold during unpredictable times. In...

Jonathan Lethem again displays his brilliance in this collection of seven short stories, blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery, and thriller. Tales include Light and the Sufferer , in which...

A festive collection of short stories by No. 1 bestseller, Cathy Kelly. The perfect stocking filler! Lose yourself in a warm and wonderful collection of short stories from bestselling Irish...

Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What...

Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light , Kinsella's haunting collection of stories. A man is disturbed by the sight of...

From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple...

Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America,...

The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and...

A young girl flies alone toAntarctica. A man goes on holiday and meets the politician he thinks has ruinedhis life. Here are ordinary characters in unusual circumstances, trying to copewith...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDAL Fora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first...

'With the whip-crack tenacity of a Raymond Chandler novel, we are pushed right into the heart of the action and emerge breathless and bloodied. Hop into the driver's seat alongside...

Shortlisted for the Age Fiction Prize. Shortlisted for the Age Fiction Prize. She finds more ways to be funny than I could count, yet she can cast a light into...