Short Stories

A selection of ever-popular Blyton short stories for the younger reader, with clear text and illustrated throughout Suitable for ages 5-8 years. *

The book titled The Last Good Man by the author Daniel Lyons. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The best-loved girl characters in literature! The Kingfisher Book of Classic Girl Stories brings together all your favourite girl characters in one wonderful volume. Now available in paperback for the...

A collection of nine stories featuring the investigations of Jemima Shore. Settings for the stories range from a Caribbean graveyard to a leafy London square. Other work by the author...

The book titled Culprit: A Crime Writers' Annual: 2nd by the author Liza Cody. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Paper Windows is an outstanding and very popular selection of short short stories. Through these entertaining stories and the exercises and activities which follow, students and teachers can quickly and...

This title contains stories including: "The Landlady", "William and Mary", "The Way up to Heaven", "Parson's Pleasures", "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat", "Royal Jelly", "Gregory Progy", "Genesis and Catastrophe",...

Surprise, absurdity, and laugh-out-loud humor are the hallmarks of award-winning, New York Times -bestselling author Andy Griffiths's books for kids--and this time, he has a few bad things on his...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi-the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play...

Stories for One Year Olds is an anthology of five best-selling Little Hare stories. Beautifully illustrated by Australia's finest illustrators, each story has been selected to engage and delight the...

Here are stories from the lives of lesbian couple Renee and Celia and their extended family -- stories about gay-baiting, about the closet, about choices and life's sheer unpredictability. From...

For every woman, there is that one sexual experience that stays on their mind, and fuels their fantasies. In this collection of blistering true stories, women from around the world...

A therapist is jolted to find her lover having an affair with one of her patients. An older Jewish lesbian recounts the story of her first and only love to...

Lesbian Stories Between the Covers A collection of erotic lesbian short stories that simmer with intrigue and lusty encounters, and lots of hot sex between the sheets as well as...

Carol Shields "has a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary" (New York Daily News). And nowhere more than in Dressing Up for the Carnival, which distills all her...

In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein's Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition...

When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a rare...

The words murder and romance seldom appear together. If given a choice, most of us would prefer them to be as far apart as possible. But there is no denying...

This is a collection of short stories set in the goldfields of central Victoria in the 1870s. They are pioneering tales of Aboriginal Yurgama Jacobs and his dingo pet Marakorpa....

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be...

A care worker's unwise interest in a dementia client leads him into a dark labyrinth. A man intent on suicide happens on his doppelganger. An abandoned woman wonders whether her...

Jack and Mark's latest batch of wisdom, love and inspiration will warm your hearts and nourish your souls, whether you're "tasting" Chicken Soup for the first time, or have dipped...

The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways of their place in their world, of power, virility, love of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger....

frog guts, shark shock, snake fright, boys' farts, girls' germs, alien trouble, surfing the wheat, surviving the storm, finding spooky treasure. Startling stories from a bold new Adelaide writer.

In rich, ironic and revaeling prose Ginu Kamani depicts the lives of Indian women ranging accross class, age and attitude. JUNGLEE GIRL is a compelling and stimulating collection by a...

By The Award-Winning Author Of "The Last Crossing "And "The Englishman's Boy" Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death...

The unwashed man woken by kookaburras at first light and his unlikely friendship with Benny, whose life on the street started when he was ten years old; the young woman...

A collection of von Kleist's haunting, unsettling stories In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this...

Third in the series about Jerry Flack and his ill-fated attempts to become a Cool Guy! Now the class president, Jerry decides to put on an Elizabethan festival to raise...

Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career, the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck, and two...

Pavilion's Children's Books have gathered together the favourite tales from master-storytellers Terry Jones and Nanette Newman in one enchanting volume, illustrated throughout in the magically vivid watercolours of Michael Foreman....

Take The Return Journey and travel a magical road with Maeve Binchy. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother, Freda, about who and what she's...

This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or...

Helen Dunmore writes poetry, short stories and novels both for children and adults and she has received widespread acclaim for work. All ten books of her adult fiction have been...

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...