Black Marks on the White Page by Witi Ihimaera; Tina Makereti
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | 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 ce ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A TIME 'New Books You Should Read'A People magazine 'Book of the Week'A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWith a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric- with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the ...Show more
Return to Harikoa Bay by Owen Marshall
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New work from the master of the short story and author of the story 'Coming Home in the Dark' made into a major feature film. 'Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it's always in a strong wind, and that's blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.' So begins on ...Show more
American Drolleries: Selected Stories by Mark Twain
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In these stories Mark Twain takes us from the sleepy banks of the Mississippi, through frontier towns and across the deserted gold plains of California. We encounter his countryfolk in all their bizzare variety: a cannibalistic ex-senator, a compulsive gambler, phoney travelling salesmen and a bumbling ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationallly bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. In these eight stories, Haruki Murakami explores the world from his unique perspective. From the imaginative to the intimate, he moves from an altern ...Show more
The Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing by Patrick Barkham
45.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The very best of British and Irish nature writing selected by the natural history writer Patrick Barkham.The landscapes of Britain and Ireland, together with the creatures and plants that inhabit them, have penetrated deep in our collective imagination. From Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth to Lauri ...Show more
Middle Distance - Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand by Craig Gamble (ed.)
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America. Longer than a traditional short story and shorter than a novella, the long story is a form that both compresses and spra ...Show more
Granta 161: Sister, Brother by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This issue of Granta tells the story of siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.
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
Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'The god of small stories - A set of polished gems from a master craftsman' Sunday Times'An American master' Daily TelegraphA woman and man, parted a quarter of a century, reunite in a bar in New Orleans as the St Patrick's Day parade goes by. A group of friends, all once promising, reunite for dinner w ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
33.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered cha ...Show more
50 Shades of Weird by Derrick von Orspe
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Have you ever looked up at the stars at night and wondered why of all the planets in all the solar systems in all the galaxies, you got this one? Have you ever considered that the status of a nation is judged not by how civilised or sophisticated its society but on its capability to destroy its neighb ...Show more