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Best Short Story Collections 2011

Silence
Rodney Hall

$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
Tim Richards

$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
Jim Shepard

$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
Geraldine Brooks (Ed)

$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
Steven Millhauser

$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
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
Don Delillo

$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
Ann Beattie

$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
Edited by Black Inc.

$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 


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