The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R. F Kuang, John Joseph Adams
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang and series editor John Joseph Adams. R. K. Kuang, New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel, selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of ...Show more
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka; Alexander Starritt (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two by Roald Dahl
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. "Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he sticks the knife in both". (Anthony Horowitz, from his introduction). Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular wr ...Show more
Big Two-Hearted River: The Centennial Edition by Ernest Hemingway
55.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of a veteran's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean. "A century since i ...Show more
Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand's Best Writers | VUP Classic by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and i ...Show more
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, ...Show more
Off the Map by Scot Gardner
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
By turns dark and light, funny and poignant, this unforgettable collection of stories takes us right to the heart of what it means to be young in today's world, from a CBCA award-winning author. Our home town. Sometimes it feels like the centre of the universe, sometimes it's the bum-end of nowhere. We ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #15
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
38.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...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' Observer Ranging 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, ...Show more