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On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh...

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather...

WINNER - Indie Book Awards 2015 (Best Debut Fiction Book) WINNER - The ABIA Award (Literary Fiction Book of the Year) 2015 WINNER - Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian...

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans...

On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript everytown. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its...

A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man...

' Now's the time to curl up with a ghostly tale - and this collection should be your go to!' Fabulous 'This cracking collection of spooky tales is perfect for...

'McBride at his brave and joyous best' New York Times Book Review 'A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places' San Francisco Chronicle An antiques dealer...

From seven masters of historical fiction-including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn-comes a richly imagined anthology of stories which bring the epic tale of the Trojan War to life. Troy:...

In Winter Stories, we meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow, a young single mother struggling to provide adequately for...

The book titled Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by the author Patricia Highsmith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Orange Tree by the author Carlos Fuentes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Piercing, inventive, and darkly humorous, the fifty-two stories in Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies explore the persistent and pervasive sexism faced by women in modern-day Japan. The normalization of violence...

Longlistedfor the Stella Prize 2018 ThisWater is the lastwork of fiction by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists,and a pioneer of women's writing in this country. It is...

In their collections 'The Returning' and 'Playing Dead', Mihaela Nicolescu and Nadine Browne illuminate the complexity of the everyday with compassionate but unflinching accounts of the ways in which people...

The rediscovered magical-realist classic by a bestselling poet for fans of Banana Yoshimoto and Kawaguchi's BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD Who doesn't want a second chance at life? Read the...

A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page A place of myths, rumours...

The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...

New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Joyce's seminal story collection about ordinary Dublin lives Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for...

With the publication of his first story collection, Thirst -- also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- Ken Kalfus made "a dazzling debut," emerging as "a...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...