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Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories by Bette Howland
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul BellowBlue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted write ...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
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 ...Show more
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 y ...Show more
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
$33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Whatever the neighbours insisted would be worth keeping a body for, he always responded that he would still prefer to live as data. A young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transition from an analogue body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a child - her own - from a go ...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
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 ...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 writi ...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
Poirot's Early Cases - Hercule by Agatha Christie
$20.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Poirot
Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot's early cases from the days before he was famous...Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was alway ...Show more
Haunted Houses by DK
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre authority John Landis. This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; other ...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 ...Show more