Intermissions - Original Stories Selected by Grattan Street Press by Grattan Street Press (Curated by, Arranged by, Selected by, Compiled by, Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Intermissions is an anthology of over 60 original short stories, exploring the complexity of the human condition. The collection brings together musings on love and loss, experimentation, isolation, suffering, intimacy and connection, environmental collapse and the Anthropocene. Carefully curated by Gra ...Show more
The Boat by Nam Le
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
We Will Live and Then We Will See: Collected Stories: 2024 by Warwick Sprawson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A truck breaks down in an outback town. A son travels to Japan to give away his father's flute. A retired Russian coal miner sells his most valued possession. An aspiring author rages at his publisher. Two Finnish tourists take on the Guatemalan jungle. A Sudanese refugee recounts his harrowing journey ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Mixtape - Stories and Essays about The 1980s by Simon Castles
$22.50 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter, but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world, life, hopes, dreams and love. T ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more
Artless by Nick Clarke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
Two suites of complementary stories set across two sides. Artless is an album of exploratory and experimental prose, where characters dissolve into shapeless cyphers as fact is rendered indistinguishable from fiction.
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
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...Show more
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot- a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us-or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous ...Show more
High Noon at Starbucks Other Stories: and other stories by Richard Freadman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories
High Noon at Starbucks is an eloquent and compelling exploration of human particularity in diverse cultural settings: the author's hometown of Melbourne, Trumpite Florida, post-handover Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Its themes include mid-life experience, identity, mental and physical illness, gender, col ...Show more