Standing Her Ground: Classic Short Stories by Trailblazing Women by Various
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
All the stories in Standing Her Ground have been chosen to celebrate the skill, the passion and achievements of women writers spanning one hundred years of innovation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon mar ...Show more
50 Shades of Weird by Derrick von Orspe
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Have you ever looked up at the stars at night and wondered why of all the planets in all the solar systems in all the galaxies, you got this one? Have you ever considered that the status of a nation is judged not by how civilised or sophisticated its society but on its capability to destroy its neighb ...Show more
Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Landfall 246 by Edited by Lynley Edmeades
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. Bringing together a range of voices ...Show more
Sands of Dune: Novellas from the world of Dune by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Collected for the first time, these Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, Sands of Dune is essential reading for any fan of the series. The world of Dune has shaped an entire generatio ...Show more
The Author's Cut - Short Stories by Owen Marshall
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by the author, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination of readers and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful ... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' StylistDRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. ...Show more
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life. In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young adults in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters ...Show more
Granta 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: VMC
How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . 'A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a ...Show more
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R. F Kuang, John Joseph Adams
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | 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