The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
Category: Short Stories
A father and son muse on the value of fame and fortune and the path of chujia or receding from the world by becoming a monk. On Christmas Eve a lonely immigrant travels from his deserted outer suburb to the city in search of life. Spouses navigate their adult son's need to 'rebrand' himself with an Engl ...Show more
The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye
Category: Short Stories
The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In ...Show more
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
Category: Short Stories
From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
Category: Short Stories
A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Category: Short Stories
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
The Gorgon Flower by John Richards
Category: Short Stories
These accomplished, gothic-infused stories impress in terms of their range and unexpected twists - this is an exceptional debut collection that includes the title novella, 'The Gorgon Flower'. A young woman is haunted by the disappearance of her grandmother, a brilliant mathematician whose research unco ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
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
Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories by Cho Nam-Joo
Category: Short Stories
FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated ...Show more
After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
Category: Short Stories
From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat: The uplifting tale of wise cats and their humans by the global bestselling author of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES by Hiro Arikawa
Category: Short Stories
A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their o ...Show more
Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed by Mykaela Saunders
Category: Short Stories
From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and c ...Show more
Zero Sum by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Short Stories
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of venge ...Show more