Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...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 ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familia ...Show more
The Lonely Sea by Alistair MacLean
23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career and the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck. THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT... Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable and unrivalled skill in writing about the sea and it ...Show more
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Picador Collection
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all ...Show more
Twice Cursed: An Anthology by Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Sarah Pinborough, M.R. Carey, Marie O'Regan
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fourteen more tales of terrible curses from the depths of the forest and beyond from the masters of dark fairy tales. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise and many more. In this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology are a further eleven original tales and thre ...Show more
Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. In the luminous title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece ...Show more
19 Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)
33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
On hearing her neighbour's body plummet on to her patio, a woman's comfortable life seems to split open. A cab driver's perfectly manicured nails may be concealing grisly secrets. A woman whose partner has left her begins to act out an increasingly deranged set of instructions.In these tense, macabre st ...Show more
Sinister Spring by Agatha Christie
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
An all-new collection of spring-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.The days are growing warmer and the nights are growing shorter... It's the perfect time to relax in the garden with this spring-themed collection from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Blossoming flowers and countrysid ...Show more
Wild Women: A collection of first-hand accounts from female explorers by Mariella Frostrup
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys under perilous circumstances. Whether escaping constricte ...Show more