An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian "Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse p ...Show more
19 Love Songs by David Levithan
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A resentful member of a high school Quiz Bowl team with an unrequited crush. A Valentine's Day in the life of Every Day's protagonist 'A'. A return to the characters of Two Boys Kissing. 19 Love Songs, from New York Times bestselling author David Levithan, delivers all of these stories and more. Born f ...Show more
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...Show more
Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell
$29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first short story collection Scattered Showers, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high schoo ...Show more
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories ...Show more
Stories From the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
$37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Like Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, Sidik Fofana ...Show more
Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection by Alex Preston (ed.)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination, en ...Show more
Male Tears by Benjamin Myers
$22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'Cracking ... Richly distinctive stories, with unnerving, dark plotlines' Independent' One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times' David Peace In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in ...Show more
Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
When the stars were rhinestones. When your car was a blue Holden god. When kisses spread to your back teeth, marathons of sucking. When we pashed through jokes, through tunes, through homework, through the leftovers we shovelled out our schoolbags. When you let me tattoo you with talk. Thirty-one exhila ...Show more
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at so ...Show more
Ghosts from the Library - Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Tony Medawar (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills.It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives - to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, peop ...Show more