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This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction
A world-first collection of blackfella speculative fiction from well-known and emerging First Nations writers.
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Shit Cassandra Saw
In this collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers --
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Out There
Kate Folk's debut short story collection Out There is a genre-bending look at the human response to the voids in life; internal and external, literal and metaphorical.
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An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form.
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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation - queerness, race,...
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The Burnished Sun
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance.
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Happy Stories, Mostly
A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. A powerful puff of fresh air, the stories talk to each other as pieces of a...
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If You’re Happy
From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world.
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Anonymous Sex
* A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference * Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire * In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be * A...
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Send Nudes
Strange and arresting, dirty but shining, the girls of Saba Sams's extraordinary debut short story collection traverse girlhood and womanhood in all its glorious complications.
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Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And Other Stories
A collection of stories reflecting the ambiguities and twists of fate - the treacherous memory, the useless remorse, the hidden intent, the little misunderstanding that can change the course of events or alter perception. Tabucchi...
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The Teeth of a Slow Machine
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own.
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My Monticello
A searing novel, a powerful call for collectivism, and one of the biggest American debuts of 2021
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Danged Black Thing
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice
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Sarahland
Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists -- almost all of whom are named Sarah.
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Blank Pages and Other Stories
Twelve new stories from the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of Grace Notes and Midwinter Break
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
In gritty, sometimes fantastical stories about Latinx life, women challenge feminine stereotypes and make sense of fractured family histories.
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Five Tuesdays in Winter
By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories.
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Life Without Children: Stories
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage.
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Permafrost
Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ Norman turns their hand to fiction with spectacular results.
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Afterparties
A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life - immersive, comic and unsparing - by an indisputable talent.
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Pure Gold
In this stunning debut short story collection exploring betrayal and longing on an imagined island off the west coast of Ireland, John Patrick McHugh takes us deep into a community of individuals who are lost, yearning, and...
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New Australian Fiction 2021
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia
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Metamorphosis: Selected Stories
An exquisite selection of the best short stories from one of our greatest living writers
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The Souvenir Museum
One of the most acclaimed writers of our day, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date. In these...
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Filthy Animals
A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life.
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
The imaginative and refreshingly original debut short story collection by the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here
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She Is Haunted
You do not know of Paige Clark, but you soon will
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Terminal Boredom: Stories
The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
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Mcsweeney’S Quarterly Issue 62: Queer Fiction Issue
McSweeney's 62: The Queer Fiction Issue collects absurd, bold, bleak, humorous, and astonishing works of fiction and art by queer writers of all orientations.
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Male Tears
In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness.
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Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now
Curated and introduced by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock features luminous storytelling from leading Aboriginal writers, such as Tony Birch, Melissa Lucashenko and Tara June Winch, as well as some of the brightest...
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Hold Your Fire
Dark and dangerous, brilliantly unsettling and chillingly funny, this extraordinary debut shows us what we usually deny - the uneasy truce we make with our ruthless desires and gothic fears, and how easily it can be broken....
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Smokehouse
A man watches a boy in a playground and pictures him in the grey wooden shed he's turned into a home. A woman's adopted mother dies, reawakening childhood memories and grief. A couple's decision to move to an isolated location may...
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Toddler Hunting and Other Stories: With an introduction by Sayaka Murata
A captivating collection of pitch-black tales from one of the most important Japanese writers of the second half of the twentieth century - 'shocking, ominous, and subversive' The Paris Review
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Land of Big Numbers
A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth.
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Born Into This
Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective.
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Hag
Dark folktales retold for modern times by some of the most exciting women writing today, from Daisy Johnson to Eimear McBride
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Ordinary Matter
In 1895 Alfred Nobel rewrote his will and left his fortune made in dynamite and munitions to generations of thinkers. Since 1901 women have been honoured with Nobel Prizes for their scientific research twenty times, including...
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Foreign Soil
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the...
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Features fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves.
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First Person Singular
A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationally bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore.
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Under a Dark Angel’s Eye
Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.
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Homesick For Another World
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious.
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Smart Ovens for Lonely People
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.
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Kink
Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star...
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This Taste for Silence
Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O'Callaghan's stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a...
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Her Body and Other Parties
'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable.' - Roxane Gay - Demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
A collection of short stories from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
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Apple and Knife
Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today's world.
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Broken Rules and Other Stories
These awards-listed, interlinked stories vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light
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Only the Animals
Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by...
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