Short Stories

Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marriage to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely...

On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh...

The stories in this collection include the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit , in which little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing,...

Laughable Loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but was then banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather...

Join Moose-a big, friendly puppy with a superpower-on a magical adventure to find the rest of his pack! Siblings Moose, Sparkle, Rocky, and Tobey are superpuppies. Each pup has a...

WINNER - Indie Book Awards 2015 (Best Debut Fiction Book) WINNER - The ABIA Award (Literary Fiction Book of the Year) 2015 WINNER - Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian...

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans...

On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript everytown. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its...

Nine haunting fairy tales: The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The...

From seven masters of historical fiction-including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn-comes a richly imagined anthology of stories which bring the epic tale of the Trojan War to life. Troy:...

In Winter Stories, we meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow, a young single mother struggling to provide adequately for...

The book titled Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by the author Patricia Highsmith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Orange Tree by the author Carlos Fuentes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Longlistedfor the Stella Prize 2018 ThisWater is the lastwork of fiction by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists,and a pioneer of women's writing in this country. It is...

In their collections 'The Returning' and 'Playing Dead', Mihaela Nicolescu and Nadine Browne illuminate the complexity of the everyday with compassionate but unflinching accounts of the ways in which people...

A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page A place of myths, rumours...

Super-fun stories specially chosen for 7-year-olds! Super-fun stories specially chosen for 7-year-olds! Lulu Bell and an injured penguin, a school play spectacular, holidays at Pop's farm, scary fairies, a lost...

With the publication of his first story collection, Thirst -- also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- Ken Kalfus made "a dazzling debut," emerging as "a...

The book titled Dresses of Red and Gold by the author Robin Klein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Breaking Beauty puts one of the greatest obsessionsof our time under the spotlight and shows that beautyrarely exists without its grubby underbelly. There is nolight without darkness.Our writers-sparkling talents both...

'.eros, like art involves risk, the risk of pregnancy, the risk of disease - or commitment, the greatest risk of all. And like art, it will bring you to the...

The book titled Knitting Emily Bridget by the author Elizabeth Stead. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a...

Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two...

In these fourteen stories, Cameron Raynes traverses landscapes of regret, joy and redemption. In a country town, a woman plots to ruin her rival with an act steeped in racism....

A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wife's voice. A poet...

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 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...