Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford

$33.00 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 young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator's sorrow after his father's death.  "Driving Up" follows an American woman's late-in-life journey to Canada to bid good-bye to a lost love now facing the end of this life.  "The Run of Yourself," a novella, sees a New Orleans lawyer navigating the difficulties of living beyond his Irish wife's death.  And "Nothing to Declare" follows a man and a woman's chance re-meeting in the New Orleans French Quarter, after twenty years, and their discovery of what's left of love for them. Typically rich with Ford's emotional lucidity and lyrical precision, Sorry for Your Trouble is a memorable collection from one of our greatest writers. ...Show more

First Flight: A Collection of Stories from Ngati Kahungunu Ki Wairarapa by Maxine Hemi

$15.00 NZD

Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14

This is a collection of short stories for children and young adults about people and events of Ngati Kahungunu, an iwi or Maori tribe of Aotearoa New Zealand. The majority of the stories focus on key events in the life of Ngati Kahungunu chief Nukupewapewa. The other stories in the collection tell abou t Kahungunu himself, the battle with the wheke (octopus) across the Pacific to Aotearoa, and the dolphin kaitiaki (guardians). ...Show more

The Faber Book of Christmas by Simon Rae

$45.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

This is a festive collection of stories, carols, prose and poetry. Over 280 pages celebrate white Christmases, traditional Christmases, carols, family, food, presents, and Christmas legends. This glorious anthology brings together writers from Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin, Evelyn Waugh and Wendy Co pe, Jilly Cooper and John Milton. You'll learn why we kiss under mistletoe and exactly who can claim to hosting The Worst Christmas Dinner Ever. It is a delightful book that is guaranteed to spread Christmas cheer. ...Show more

Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin

$25.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

The chance to join 'the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin' (New York Times)'Raw, elliptical , devilishly funny tales' ObserverRanging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husban ds who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second . . .The publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin's dazzling collection of short stories, marked the rediscovery of a writer whose talent had gone unremarked by many. The incredible reaction to Lucia's writing - her ability to capture the beauty and ugliness that coexist in everyday lives, the extraordinary honesty and magnetism with which she draws on her own history to breathe life into her characters - included calls for her contribution to American literature to be as celebrated as that of Raymond Carver.Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin's remaining stories - a jewel-box follow-up for her hungry fans. ...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 novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne. ...Show more

Huia Short Stories 12: Contemporary Maori fiction

$30.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

This book was either translated or put together by staff of Huia Publishers. The stories in our Huia Short Stories collections are written by various Māori authors who have been selected as finalists in the short story in Māori or English, or novel extract sections in our biennial Pikihuia Awards writing competition. ...Show more

Nelson Noir (STEM Writers) by STEM Writers

$30.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere by Simon Rowe

$22.50 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 s and receives an unexpected gift from a mysterious passenger - Good Night Papa (Japan) A snobbish widow must enlist the help of local cannery workers when an oversize family heirloom arrives by ship from New Zealand - Baby Grand (Fiji) A kung fu master finds a way to channel the creative talent of a recalcitrant student - The Girl Who Made The Kung Fu Master Cry (China) A fugitive seeking redemption realises his fate rests in the hands of a novice Buddhist monk - The Pilgrim (Japan) When an enormous python terrorises a beach resort in Bali, only one man has the ability and business acumen to turn the problem into a tasty success - Tuna Steak (Indonesia) A restaurant waitress uses her wit to have her husband released from prison when her beach resort town is overrun by a tide of seaweed - Weed (Mexico) Two rival gangs with plans to demolish an old neighborhood are brought to their knees by a barbershop full of ninja - The Foonabiki Barbers (Japan) ...Show more

Property: A Collection by Lionel Shriver

$25.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver 'Genius' Stylist'Phenomenal' Observer'Brilliant' The TimesIn her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age's most enduring obsessions: property. A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for he r best friend; a thirty-something son refuses to leave home; a middle-aged man subjugated by service to his elderly father discovers that the last place you should finally assert yourself is airport security. This landmark publication explores the idea of "property" in both senses of the word: real estate, and stuff. Immensely readable, it showcases the biting insight that has made Lionel Shriver one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. ...Show more

Victim: Faber Stories by P. D. JAMES

$10.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.

'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel any grievance?" I had been expecting this question. I knew exactly what I would say.' The late, great P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. ...Show more

Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernieres

$24.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power. The collection includes 'Gunter Weber's Confession' which revisits characters from Captain Corelli. Full of wit, warmth and charm, Louis de Bernières' Labels and Ot her Stories features tales from throughout his career as a masterful storyteller and transports us around the globe, from the London Underground to Turkish ruins to the banks of the Amazon. De Bernières' unlikely and unforgettable heroes are found collecting luxury tinned cat-food labels, posting fish to the President, falling in love with dolphin deities and dining with Brazilian street thieves. And in 'Gunter Weber's Confession', we return once more to the Greek island of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and its much-loved characters. In this worldly and entertaining collection of stories, we are equally enchanted by familiar and fantastical occurrences, by de Bernières' wry sense of humour and powerful imagination. ...Show more

Black Marks on the White Page by Ihimaera Witi; Tina Makereti

$40.00 NZD

Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: Very Good

A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st c entury stories of Maori and Pasifika writers from all over the world. Vibrant, provocative and aesthetically exciting, these stories expand our sense of what is possible in Indigenous Oceanic writing. Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti present the very best new and uncollected stories and novel excerpts, creating a talanoa, a conversation, where the stories do the talking. And because our commonalities are more stimulating than our differences, the anthology also includes guest work from an Aboriginal Australian writer, and several visual artists whose work speaks to similar kaupapa. Join us as we deconstruct old theoretical maps and allow these fresh Black Marks on the White Page to expand our perception of the Pacific world. ...Show more