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The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$40.00 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
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and his award-winning second book, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short-story writers.In this third collection, That Old Country Music, we encounter a ragbag of west o ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by Elizabeth Knox & David Larsen (Eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this a ...Show more
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
Pearl City - Stories from Japan and Elsewhere by Simon Rowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (2020) is a collection of short fiction set in Japan, Cambodia, Austria, East Malaysia, New Zealand, France, The Philippines, Hong Kong, and Australia. It is the companion reader to Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (Atlas Jones, 2017) a ...Show more
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere by Simon Rowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Rear cover blurb: Some of the tales told within Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere: A recovering alcoholic mail pilot crashes his plane in the desert with a bottle of gin on board - The Finke River Mail (Australia) A retired taxi driver takes a job driving call girls to pay his debt ...Show more
Under a Dark Angel's Eye: The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith; Carmen Maria Machado (Introduction by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny. Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, this is the most comprehensive collection of Highsmith's short fiction, including two unpublished stories. "Every story by the unparalleled master Patricia ...Show more
To Be a Man: Short Story Collection by Nicole Krauss
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Deftly weaving from one end of life to another o from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illumina ...Show more
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront his past. A walk-on part in a Polanski film finds the narrator searching the ...Show more
Killer, Come Back to Me! by Ray Bradbury
$25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories - tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travellers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, thi ...Show more
Granta 152: Still Life by Sigrid Rausing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new writing and art.
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