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The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

$32.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
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Collected Short Stories

Collected Short Stories

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Savor and Intoxicated: The Billionaire Bachelors Club

Savor and Intoxicated: The Billionaire Bachelors Club

$36.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy's scorching Billionaire Bachelors Club series continues in this 2-in-1: a fiery romance that refuses to be left at the office, and a wedding...
Bugsy & Other Stories

Bugsy & Other Stories

$32.99 AUD$28.04 AUD
From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin's latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five...
Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

$22.95 AUD$19.51 AUD
This work is a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever. Subjects range from an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard...
The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions)

The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions)

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories' Sharon Cameron in...
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. 'Tom was here before the...
A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories

$24.99 AUD
The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller - twenty-one rediscovered early short stories from the legendary global bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett. From one of the bestselling science fiction and...
The Jealousy Man: From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling king of gripping twists

The Jealousy Man: From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling king of

$22.99 AUD$14.00 AUD
A page-turning collection of dark and twisted crime stories from the international bestselling author of the Harry Hole series. **THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR** **Shortlisted for the Crime Writers'...
First Person Singular: mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed author of NORWEGIAN WOOD

First Person Singular: mind-bending new collection of short stories

$24.99 AUD
A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationally bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY...
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth...
Who Among Us?

Who Among Us?

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
A strange love triangle unravels in this masterly study of storytelling, deception and desire They met when they were teenagers. Quiet, poor, perhaps even a little dull, Miguel fell for...
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A...
Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected

$14.99 AUD$12.74 AUD
Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a delightfully dark collection of sixteen stories, each with a startling end. Among the unforgettable characters lurk the homicidal wife and her deadly...
Dubliners

Dubliners

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
With an introduction and notes by Terence Brown Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Offers unexpurgated translation of the best-known tales including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor' The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two

The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
A complete collection of surprising and sinister tales from one of Britain's most celebrated writers. Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular writers, equally at home writing for...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

The Complete Short Stories: Volume One

$35.00 AUD$29.75 AUD
A complete collection of surprising and sinister tales from one of Britain's most celebrated writers Roald Dahl is one of the most popular writers of the modern age, effortlessly writing...
The Vanishing Point

The Vanishing Point

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and "master of the short story" (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection The stories in Paul Theroux's fascinating new collection are both exotic and...
Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
Dazzling new story collection from the prize-nominated Sunday Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy, American Wife and You Think It, I'll Say It, YOUR NEXT READ FROM THE INSTANT SUNDAY...
Table For Two

Table For Two

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF A...
Safe Enough: And Other Stories

Safe Enough: And Other Stories

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

$34.99 AUD$29.74 AUD
A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is...
Hot Little Hands

Hot Little Hands

$29.99 AUD$25.49 AUD
Hot Little Hands contains nine funny, confronting and pitch-perfect stories about stumbling on the fringes of innocence, and the marks desire can leave. Anya, in her fake-leather sneakers and second-hand...
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics paperback This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
With a new introduction by Ali Smith WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole...
The Collected Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent 1920S and 1930s in New York were a time of great...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which...
Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

$27.99 AUD$23.79 AUD
Translated by Sylvia Raphael, this edition fully captures the wit and elegance of the original stories One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter...
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative...
Selected Stories

Selected Stories

$26.99 AUD$22.94 AUD
First time in Black Classics for Lawrence- previously in PMC Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows...
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He

$26.99 AUD
Dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist from the author of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby In these dark, dreamlike love stories with...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly...
Gothic Tales

Gothic Tales

$26.99 AUD
Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling tales of the supernatural Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings,...
Collected Short Stories Volume 1

Collected Short Stories Volume 1

$24.99 AUD$21.24 AUD
The first volume of collected short stories, written by a master of the form This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of...
Night Train to the Stars: beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk tales

Night Train to the Stars: beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk tales

$24.99 AUD
Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark...
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing,...
Normal Rules Don't Apply

Normal Rules Don't Apply

$24.99 AUD
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems... Discover...
Florida

Florida

$24.99 AUD
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX and FATES AND FURIES 'Magnificent . . . Lauren Groff is a virtuoso' Emily St John Mandel 'A blistering collection . . . lyrical...
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories

$24.99 AUD
Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before...
Men Without Women: FEATURING THE SHORT STORY THAT INSPIRED OSCAR-WINNING FILM DRIVE MY CAR

Men Without Women: FEATURING THE SHORT STORY THAT INSPIRED OSCAR-

$24.99 AUD
A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling...
Homesick For Another World

Homesick For Another World

$24.99 AUD
An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen 'Razor-sharp' Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year...
Rural Dreams: Stories From The Bush

Rural Dreams: Stories From The Bush

$24.99 AUD
From award-winning crime writer Margaret Hickey comes a collection of captivating short stories celebrating the Australian countryside. Margaret Hickey's Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke,...
Innocence

Innocence

$24.99 AUD
Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald...
Fear

Fear

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahl these terrible tales...
War

War

$22.99 AUD$19.54 AUD
Roald Dahl's tales of war, conflict and strife . . . In war are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's...
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories

No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories

$24.99 AUD
The complete Jack Reacher short stories from the number one bestseller Lee Child. \"Including a new novella, the clever, twisty tales reveal that even 13-year-old Reacher was a force to...