Short Stories

The words `love story' suggest the kind of story beginning with a glance and ending with a sunset or an aisle. What such stories celebrate is the harnessing of desire...

A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker....

The path to true love doesn't always run smooth - sometimes you have to brave dangerous passions to get there. This collection of stories explores the darker side of love...

Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see...

From the very first story in the very first book of Christopher Milne's series of NAUGHTY STORIES FOR GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS the tales of naughty kids are told in...

Back at dinner, somebody said that the goose thinks it's a dog. No, it doesn't. It doesn't think it's a dog. The goose doesn't think. The goose just is. And...

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...

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The Elf on the Shelf has been given their own mystery to solve. On Christmas Eve, a letter arrives at the North Pole from a little girl called Sofi. She...

On the Night Before Christmas, Scout Elf has everything perfectly prepared for Santa's arrival ... or has he? The children are nestled, the stockings hung. Elf is ready to say...

The book titled Soldiers Omnibus: One That Got Away AND War Dogs by the author Chris Ryan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Jana Wendt, the much-loved Gold Logie superstar of TV journalism for nearly three decades, feature writer and role model for young career women, has now turned her hand to fiction....

Graham Greene's best short stories, selected and introduced by the novelist and uber-fan, Yiyun Li. Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here the some...

A collection of wintery crime and mystery stories by thirteen of the most exciting and diverse authors in children's books today! Co-edited by Serena Patel, the award-winning author of the...

In these five stories, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Cupid and Psyche, Penelope, Oedipus, Icarus and Odysseus inhabit the consciousness of characters who wrestle...

Set mostly in the American South, at the crossroads of a world both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men...

In his latest collection, master storyteller John Edgar Wideman offers a collection of complex, charged pieces. His stories weave together historical fact, imagined conversation, philosophical kernels and deeply personal vignettes....

'Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that's what he did. It's a given. It's the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is:...

Explore life in the surreal times of COVID19 through the curious, unorthodox eyes of young Australians. Eighty-three young teenage writers, from Byron Bay to Hobart, use fiction, non-fiction, poetry and...

For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating...

A dozen stories- a dozen ways of looking at love, or the lack of love. Over five previous collections, A. L. Kennedy has shown herself to be a master of...

Seventeen stories selected from the sixth annual Margaret River Short Story Competition. A truly national competition, contributors this year come from Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Queenslander...

The book titled Making Connections: Six Australian Short Story Writers by the author Brian Keyte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

The book titled Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century Women Writers by the author Susan Koppleman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

It is the twenty-first century and a young girl travels into a virtual maze; the Prime Minister of Australia is blackmailed by her daughter; a mysterious old women befriends a...

Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.

The book titled Collected Short Stories: Vol 1 by the author W. Somerset Maugham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Way We Lived Then. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Has any other filmmaker become so famous that he has also become an adjective? A collection of brand new stories directly inspired by the master of suspense. The Sunday Times...

In New American Stories , the beautiful, the strange, the melancholy, and the sublime all comingle to show the vast range of the American short story . In this remarkable...

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...

Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts,...