Short Stories

Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island , Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of...

Travel back in time to Australia's most glorious era - the era of squatters, gold rushes, shearers, Cobb & Co. coaches, bushrangers and, of course, swagmen. The swagmen of this...

A host of Australia's best genre fictioneers - and one bold Kiwi - were invited to submit stories to the first anthology of adventure stories commissioned by Clan Destine Press....

Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. You never...

Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories-some of which have appeared in The...

Another hilarious collection of four of the most revolting and funny stories you're ever likely to read. Gathered together for the first time are stories about: Jellyfish Undies;Foot Rot;Pigeon Poo;Deadly...

Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday...

Wet foot. Dry foot. Low foot. High foot! Early readers will enjoy marching in time to the beat of many, many feet with Dr. Seuss's fun exploration of opposites. Left...

These twenty-five new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision...

An electrifying short story collection from 'one of America's most important novelists' ( New York Times ); the twice Orange Prize-shortlisted author of the bestselling The History of Love A...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'These three novellas in a single volume show...

Ripper stories specially chosen for 6 year olds! Authors include Robin Klein, Sophie Masson, Victor Kelleher and more! A very bossy robot, hats in the playground, a scary garden gnome,...

In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and...

The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With The Sandman, Gaiman created the most sophisticated, intelligent and...

Quests, treasure troves, sidekicks, sworn enemies, daring deeds, unbelievable escapes... and so much more! Fourteen young editors, mentored by children's author Rebecca Lim and publishing industry professionals, have put together...

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an...

A collection of short fiction including stories set in the same worlds as the author's novels "Fairyland", "Pasquale's Angel" and "Eternal Light".

This book is intended for interest age: all ages.

The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of O'Brian's short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant O'Brian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate...

In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange - and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical,...

A thief steals the air from a room. Children invent a nursery rhyme to make sense of their fate and a band of girls rot from the outside in. These...

Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island. It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote...

InThe Best Australian Stories2015, Amanda Lohrey, winner of the Patrick White Award and author of the acclaimed novelA Short History of Richard Kline, curates twenty pieces of exceptional short fiction....

An enterprising young man on the verge of losing his home in Addis Ababa pursues an improbable opportunity to turn his life around. A woman visiting her country of origin...

Black Adam brings old world justice to Kahndaq as Hawkman seizes control of the JSA and brings them to the turbulent Middle East for an epic battle! Black Adam brings...

`An Indiscretion in the Life of a Heiress', is one of ten stories - three collaborative, all uncollected - that are brought together in this volume. `Indiscretion', derived from Hardy's...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The...

These ten stories offer a stunning vision of contemporary American suburbia, littered with tension, heartbreak and revelations. Andrew Porter's stories take readers across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to...

New editor is Robert Drewe, author of Grace , The Shark Net , Our Sunshine and Walking Ella . Past contributors include- J.M. Coetzee, Janette Turner Hospital, Tara June Winch,...

The mystery of the light in Vermeer's famous painting illuminates a writer's love for his mother; a travelling lingerie salesman is helped miraculously by a rock musician as he waits...

'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers will be transported to a fabulous fantasy land of such opulence that...

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...

A thrilling anthology of short stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy and Uprooted, spanning each of her realms and including a sneak peak into the...

With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating...

The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal 'Poignant and impressionistic . . . highly readable and...

'There's nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat' Kate Saunders, The Times Christmas: a time of year when emotions...

I hear someone coming. It has happened before. I pause and listen but no longer hear anything. I sigh. As always, hope is snatched away before it can take root....

A collection of stories that celebrate the humour, darkness and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that's not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception and...

This anthology gathers up the energy, dynamism and raw talent from the past 10 years of theNational Young Writers' Festival, an annual creative bender that hosts Australia's brightestwriters and literary...

12 legendary sports stories for kids! 12 legendary sports stories for kids! Meet a champion swimmer who loses his swimmers in the pool. Experience the most amazing handball rally of...

"Warning- Super-adventurous stories for boys within!" "Warning- Super-adventurous stories for boys within! Featuring stories that boys will be falling over themselves to read and re-read, Stories for Boys is a...