This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which go on resonating in the reader's mind long after the story is finished. From the awkward strain of dissolving relationships to the revealing vagaries of chance occurrences upon ordinary people, the voices that inhabit these worlds speak eloquently of the hidden motivations that propel us all, finally, to act. Often without realising it, these characters hold in their hands both the consequences of small decisions and – sometimes – the power of life and death.
Specific stories deal with the risks that are taken and the compromises that are made both in forging and in escaping relationships; with the traumas – whether related to illness or to loss – that incite us to desperate measures; and with the everyday coincidences that drive our lives. Each story slowly builds to its climax and invariably has a sting in its tail.
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The Thing Around Your Neck
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Granta, and won the International PEN/David Wong award in 2003. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, ... Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
$25.00 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblan... Buy or find out more →
Mothers And Sons
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
"T ib n is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity... These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted" (Literary Review)
Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding t... Buy or find out more →
Dark Roots
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which go on resonating in the reader's mind long after the story is finished. From the awkward strain of dissolving relatio... Buy or find out more →
New Australian Stories
$0.01 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This eclectic anthology of new stories showcases some of our finest short-story writers and proves that the short story is alive and well in Australia. From seasoned practitioners of the form through to rising and emergi... Buy or find out more →
The Turning
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with ... Buy or find out more →
Cate Kennedy
The World Beneath
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists, part of a world-famous blockade in Tasmania to save the wilderness. Now, twenty-five years later, they have both settled into the uncomfortable compromises of middle-age ... Buy or find out more →
Dark Roots
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which go on resonating in the reader's mind long after the story is finished. From the awkward strain of dissolving relatio... Buy or find out more →
Dark Roots
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This collection of prize-winning short stories opens up worlds of small, finely observed detail, which go on resonating in the reader's mind long after the story is finished. From the awkward strain of dissolving relatio... Buy or find out more →
Love And Desire Four Modern Australian Novellas
$24.95 – Paperback book / The Five Mile Press
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Sing, And Don't Cry: A Mexican Journal
$27.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
Sing, and Don't Cry is Cate Kennedy' s sensual and touching evocation of her time spent working as a volunteer in small town Mexico. The people she comes to love in Tequisquiapan, and their gusto for celebration, pilgrim... Buy or find out more →
Joyflight
$0.00 – Paperback book / Interactive Pubn
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