Short Stories

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.

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...

The book titled "The Flying Trunk and Other Stories by the author Hans Christian Andersen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'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 JUST SO STORIES by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. In those days the colours were much...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Children's writer and Carnegie medallist Jan Mark has selected 44 stories which include moral tales, fairy tales, ghost stories, adventure stories, and school stories; they are inhabited by good and...

The World's Worst Children 3, from Children's author David Walliams. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your bookshelf, 10 more horrendously hilarious stories about the...

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...

A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine-the godfather of Goosebumps-and some of the most...

The courage of a loyal dog is tragically mistaken for violence in this gripping quick read for seriously struggling readers from award-winning author Tanya Landman. When the prince and his...

The courage of a loyal dog is tragically mistaken for violence in this gripping quick read for seriously struggling readers from award-winning author Tanya Landman. When the prince and his...

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...

'Stories full of wit, irony, wild invention, love and pain - and sometimes shocking power' Paddy O'Reilly 'By turns acerbic, playful and serious, O'Neill is equally at home with satire...

A man treads water in the Swan River, hoping to bring his friend back to shore. Three siblings gaze skyward seeking a comet among the stars. A mother and daughter...

A long-deserted drive-in, waiting for a rerun of the one story that might give it life; a child who discovers his identity in a photograph hidden in his parents' room...

A young woman suddenly confronts the life she walked away from. A loving husband must make a pact with the devil to keep his wife. A passionate collector must choose...

Super-fun stories specially chosen for 6-year-olds! Super-fun stories specially chosen for 6-year-olds! A very old ghost, an accident-prone cousin, a pirate in search of a ship, fish fingers for breakfast,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE 'Dazzling' GUARDIAN 'Blistering' THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS 'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT 'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES An electrifying, hilarious...

"Midalia's skill at presenting big ideas through everyday experience demonstrates how powerful good writing can be" - The West Australian Feet to the Stars, Susan Midalia's third collection of short...

Susan Midalia's second collection of short stories offers us a compelling variety of characters,all of them 'travellers' in search of connection and belonging. Tourists in Moscow and Vienna confronted by...

This entertaining collection includes a romp of a novella called The Rattler, as well as short stories and micro fictions all set in and around contemporary Melbourne. Sometimes serious, sometimes...

From medieval Europe to outback Queensland, from war-torn Bosnia to China and on to the shores of the Aral Sea, The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles...

A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O'Callaghan. The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood...

A man turns up at his daughter's birthday party with a goldfish in an ice-cream container. On the way to collect firewood, a woman and her teenaged neighbour crash in...