Life Lessons

From the critically acclaimed author of Oliver Loving and The Story of Forgetting is a short story about friendship, loss and growing up.______________________Life lesson: the most soothing salve avai …

The Hall Chimp

From the Miles Franklin longlisted author of Flames, is a short story that will have you on the edge of your seat, screaming ‘wake up’.___________________The mum and the dad are in bed but the boy is …

Home Remedies

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NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS AND LITHUB____________________’Striking, soulful and ablaze with promise.’ Observer__________________The twe …

Sightseeing

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‘This debut show more than mere promise: it is a fine achievement in its own right.’ — GuardianOne of the most widely talked about debuts of 2005, Sightseeing is a masterful storytelling by an award- …

The Name on the Door is Not Mine

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Gathered from throughout Stead’s career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead’s subtle sense of h …

Trajectory

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RTE Guide’s Book of the Year, 2018Richard Russo’s characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we’re familiar with from many of his novels. In ‘Horsema …

Spring Tide

A thought-provoking collection of contemporary short stories from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award 2013.Chris Beckett’s thought-provoking and wide-ranging collection of contemporary short stor …

Best Served Cold

When Tara farewells her older sister, Cassy, on a trip to New Zealand, she waves goodbye as Cassy calls out, ‘See you in September.’ But it’s many years before Tara and her parents see or even hear fr …

When There's Nowhere Else To Run

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In one way or another, isn’t everyone on the run?A survivor of bushfires takes asylum with old friends. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around Australia to an east-coast rehabilitation cl …

Bream Gives Me Hiccups

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Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor and star of The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg. Known for his iconic film roles but also for …

Goodnight, Beautiful Women

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Anna Noyes has produced a powerful, mesmerizing debut collection of loosely interconnected short stories. Assured and atmospheric and imbued with the luminous beauty of the Maine coastline, these stor …

Small Circle of Beings

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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEDamon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.An exquisite early work by the Booker Pr …

Only the Animals

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Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench o …

Merciless Gods

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A collection of urgent, thrilling and original stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and r …

Blasphemy

Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, fro …

Magical Thinking

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A collection of autobiographical short stories, small vignettes of his life experiences, universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.From the #1 bestselling author of Running wit …