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Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead : Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
$9.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
$24.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection by Alex Preston (ed.)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination, en ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
Pet: Stories by Kathryn van Beek
$20.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. “Hectic, chatty, very modern New Zealand, very, very readable.”—Steve Braunias“These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sha ...Show more
19 Love Songs by David Levithan
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A resentful member of a high school Quiz Bowl team with an unrequited crush. A Valentine's Day in the life of Every Day's protagonist 'A'. A return to the characters of Two Boys Kissing. 19 Love Songs, from New York Times bestselling author David Levithan, delivers all of these stories and more. Born f ...Show more
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...Show more
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (Editor)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many cap ...Show more
Cutting Edge: Noir Short Stories by Women by Joyce Carol Oates
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder (Translator)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocen ...Show more
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