Best Short Story Collections 2011
Silence
$24.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
Silence is an exquisite, poignant collection of ‘fictions’ by one of Australia’s finest writers. Each piece has its own startling imagery. This is a book that constantly surprises with its echoes of famous voices, and wh... Buy or find out more →
Thought Crimes
$27.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In Thought Crimes, Tim Richards takes the reader on a mind-bending ride through a world where nothing is quite as it seems. The lives these stories describe are almost ordinary – but an ambush lurks around every corner.... Buy or find out more →
You Think That's Bad, Stories
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Culling the vastness of experience--from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average--like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once... Buy or find out more →
The Best American Short Stories 2011
$21.95 – Paperback book / Mariner Books
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" ("San Diego Union-Tribune"). With Brooks picking the best o... Buy or find out more →
We Others: New And Selected Stories
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.” —David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning auth... Buy or find out more →
The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'Remarkable. Some of the most moving fiction - on death, marriage, children - of recent years. To read The Collected Stories is to be reminded of the grand, echoing mind-chambers created by Sebald or recent Coetzee. A wr... Buy or find out more →
The Angel Esmeralda
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Picador
The stories here, collected from all five decades of DeLillo's career, show an acknowledged master of the novel in complete command of the short form. In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wi... Buy or find out more →
The New Yorker Stories
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Scribner
Collects every Beattie story published in The New Yorker magazine throughout a 35-year period, in an anthology that offers insight into her precise character creation and insight into modern American family life. By the ... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection
$34.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
The best of the best …
This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matte... Buy or find out more →