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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
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most influential writers, this is the most comprehensive collection of Highsmith's short fiction, including two unpublished stories.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
Pearl City - Stories from Japan and Elsewhere by Simon Rowe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
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
The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig; Anthea Bell (Translator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Perfectly paced and brimming with passion - twenty-two tales from a master storyteller of the twentieth century.
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
Supporting Cast by DE WAAL KIT
$24.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
***From the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon*** 'Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly' Stylist _______________________________________________ As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his weddin ...Show more
People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
$28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it w ...Show more
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
$20.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Poirot
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond...then came the 'suicide' that was murder...the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat...a suspicious death in a locked gun-room...a million dollar b ...Show more
A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi
From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his latest science fiction and fantasy stories over the last five years--sixteen of his best--plus a new ...Show more