Safe Enough: And other stories by Lee Child
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of h ...Show more
Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the bestselling author of The Porpoise come eight mesmerising stories exploring what, ultimately, makes us human. Mark Haddon weaves ancient fables into fresh and unexpected forms, and forges new legends to sit alongside them. The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching pa ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
Natalie Portman's Fables by Natalie Portman; Janna Mattia (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Academy Award-winning actress, director, producer, and activist Natalie Portman retells three classic fables and imbues them with wit and wisdom. From realizing that there is no "right" way to live to respecting our planet and learning what really makes someone a winner, the messages at the heart of ...Show more
The Hunter and Other Stories of Men by David Cohen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A property developer fears that a burgeoning ibis population will prevent the construction of a high rise apartment complex; a bus stop outside a dementia care facility in Düsseldorf suffers its own identity crisis; a young man's new job requires him to pose as a woodcutter and wave at a trainload of to ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever ...Show more
White Cat Black Dog by Kelly Link
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan. Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitab ...Show more
Great Italian Stories / Grandi Racconti Italiani: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Countless Sleepless Nights: A collection of coming-out stories and experiences by Carina Maggar
$39.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'I'm sorry I can't say this to your face, but words fail me every time I try, even though I know you would be fine (and knowing you, you might have already guessed).'A moving, inspiring and thought-provoking collection of coming-out stories from around the world. From the good, the sad, the surprising a ...Show more
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, Esquire and the New European* Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the g ...Show more
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: Short Stories
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in ...Show more
The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A father and son muse on the value of fame and fortune and the path of chujia or receding from the world by becoming a monk. On Christmas Eve a lonely immigrant travels from his deserted outer suburb to the city in search of life. Spouses navigate their adult son's need to 'rebrand' himself with an Engl ...Show more