Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead: Faber Stories by Milan Kundera
$9.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Lahiri, Jhumpa
$32.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many cap ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry
$24.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Penguin English Library
One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, O. Henry's comic eye and unique, playful approach to the rough material of life's realities are unmatched. These stories, which range from the cattle-lands of Texas to the bars of New York, highlight the joys of avoiding habit and conven ...Show more
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima (Ginny Takemori (Translator); Ian MacDonald (Translator))
$23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Prize-winning Japanese author offers stories haunted by history.
Cutting Edge: Noir Short Stories by Women by Joyce Carol Oates
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love by Huma Qureshi
$25.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'A deft, satisfying and poignant collection of stories . . . I loved it.' PANDORA SYKES'Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman, John Freeman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, th ...Show more
Pet Stories by Kathryn van Beek
$20.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. “Hectic, chatty, very modern New Zealand, very, very readable.”—Steve Braunias“These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sha ...Show more