Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the critically acclaimed second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These. A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture.That Christmas, the electricity goes out.A forester mortgages his land and ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise! One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who ...Show more
Night Side of the River (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A modern and masterful collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'A master of her material' VANITY FAIR 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. ...Show more
Topographia Hibernica by Blindboyboatclub
$65.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. Thi ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Classic Ghost Stories by Various
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A Vintage Classics selection of haunting tales by some of the masters of nineteenth-century literature. Includes spine-chilling stories by Charles Dickens, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and E. Nesbit.As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying by Roald Dahl
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This title presents ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, from the master of the short story, Roald Dahl. During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and even suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilo ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: General Adult
SUM shows us forty wonderfully imagined possibilities of life beyond death. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different ver ...Show more
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R. F Kuang, John Joseph Adams
$37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang and series editor John Joseph Adams. R. K. Kuang, New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel, selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of ...Show more