The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
$22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murder ...Show more
Funny Ha, Ha: 80 Of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton (ed.)
$42.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Anthos Ser.
The Sunday Times Humour Book of the YearA special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of the funniest stories ever written, selected by comedian Paul Merton.From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to laugh. Her ...Show more
The Time Traveller's Almanac - 100 Stories Brought to You from the Future by Ann VanderMeer (Editor); Jeff VanderMeer (Editor)
$46.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology library of the ultimate collection of time travel stories, from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by i ...Show more
The Exquisite Art of Getting Even by Alexander McCall Smith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The characters in this delightful book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. But how we get even is not always the best road to redemption. On the island of Mull, it takes an incomer to make the locals realise that they need to take matters into their own hands to maintain the commu ...Show more
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
$23.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
.A Vintage Classics edition of a feminist literary landmark- the daring story of a woman's search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author's career.With an effortless, sure-handed artistry, Kate Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young mother and model wi ...Show more
That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written by David Miller
$46.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the 100 finest short stories ever written. Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, t ...Show more
Marple: Twelve New Stories by Agatha Christie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Ea ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
$24.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' GuardianMurderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent by ...Show more
The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022 by Jess Walter
$36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. New York Times bestselling author and "superb storyteller" (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty ...Show more
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