Supper Waltz Wilson, and other New Zealand stories by Owen Marshall

$50.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

To Be a Man: Short Story Collection by Nicole Krauss

$33.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

Deftly weaving from one end of life to another o from ageing parents to newborn babies, from a young girl's coming-of-age to an old woman's unexpected delivery of a strange new second youth, from mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss's stories illumina te the moments in the lives of women in which the forces of sex, power and violence collide. With sons and lovers, seducers and friends, husbands lost and regained, or husbands who were never husbands at all, how many men does can a woman's lifetime hold? What does it mean to be a man and a woman together; or a man and a woman, once together and now apart? Beautiful, taut and dark, spinning across the world, from Switzerland, Japan and New York to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, To Be a Man delves with originality and timeliness into questions of masculinity and violence, regret and regeneration, control and desire; and shines a fierce, unwavering light onto men and women, and into the uncharted gulfs that lie between them.   ...Show more

The Garden Party (Penguin English Library) by Katherine Mansfield

$20.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories | Series: The\Penguin English Library

They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. ...Show more

Pet: Stories by Kathryn van Beek

$20.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

Pet is a dark and humorous short story collection that explores our relationships with children, lovers, and other animals. “Hectic, chatty, very modern New Zealand, very, very readable.”—Steve Braunias“These beautifully crafted stories about humans and their animals and animals and their humans are sha rp, taut, brilliantly written exposés of our untamed behaviour to each other. Kathryn’s writing is intense and merciless but totally entertaining and gripping from start to finish.”—Stuart Hoar ​ ...Show more

The Daylight and the Dust: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame; Michele S. Roberts (Introduction by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.

'The Daylight and the Dust' is a comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's short stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection 'The Lagoon and Other Stories', right up to 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'.

The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings by Gabriel García Marquez

$26.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a repr esentative selection from across the first four decades of his career - years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. The Scandal of the Century brings together the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fiction-like reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El Pa?s. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world. ...Show more

Irish Ghosts Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart Davies

$20.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ve and treasure. Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with their wonderful facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales. This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters of the art of raising as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within the pages of this collection you will find strange accounts of haunted houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful spirits, all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the blood.Selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.Stories in this edition: Sheridan Le FanuThe Room in Le Dragon VolantMadam Crowl's GhostSquire Toby's WillThe Child that went with the FairiesAn Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier StreetGhost Stories of ChapelizodThe Vision of Tom ChuffW. B. YeatsThe CurseHanraham's VisionBram StokerThe Judge's HouseThe Secret of the Growing GoldOscar WildeThe Canterville GhostMrs J. H. RiddellThe Old House in Vauxhall WalkA Strange Christmas GameFitz-James O'BrienWhat was It?The Pot of TulipsThomas Crofton CrokerThe Haunted CellarJeremiah CurtinSt Martin's EveDaniel CorkeryThe Eyes of the DeadRosa MulhollandThe Haunted Organist of Hurly BurlyThe Ghost at the Rath ...Show more

Essential New Zealand Short Stories by Owen Marshall (ed)

$40.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

The short story has been the forte of distinguished New Zealand writers from Katherine Mansfield and Frank Sargeson through to fresh young talents such as Eleanor Catton and Craig Cliff. There could be no better guide to a sampler of their best work than Owen Marshall, who has been called New Zealand's best living writer of short stories. Marshall's indispensible collection features fifty arresting and significant stories that show why short fiction has been so important in the development of our literature, and also why it continues to appeal. First published in 2002, this new edition of the collection features five new stories from writers who excel at a magnificent national genre: perfectly polished stories peopled by perceptive, quirky and intriguing characters. First published 2002. ...Show more

Victim: Faber Stories by P. D. JAMES

$10.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.

'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel any grievance?" I had been expecting this question. I knew exactly what I would say.' The late, great P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. ...Show more

Blue in Chicago - And Other Stories by Bette Howland

$28.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

'The work of a woman who has invested her life in her art, and who will, I think be remembered as one of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow Blue in Chicago collects together the sharp, bittersweet stories of Bette Howland and restores to our bookshelves an extraordinarily gifted wr iter, who was recognized as a major talent before all but disappearing from public view for decades, until nearly the end of her life. Bette Howland was an outsider: an intellectual from a working-class neighborhood in Chicago; a divorcée and single mother, to the disapproval of her family; an artist chipped away at by poverty and perfection. Each of these sides of her life plays a shaping role in her work. Mining her most precarious struggles for her art in each of these stories, she chronicles the fears and hopes of her generation. Blue in Chicago, and other stories introduces readers to a wry, brilliant observer and a writer of great empathy and sly, joyous humor. Published in the US under the title Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. 'If there's a Howland bandwagon (and there should be), hold me a seat, or I'll stand. No problem, I'll stand.' Paris Review ...Show more

Owen Marshall : Selected Stories by Owen Marshall (ed Vincent O'Sullivan)

$45.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers -- generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.' This love is perhaps evoked not just by the superb quality of Marshall's writing but beca use his stories so precisely capture his fellow New Zealanders and their country. From the provinces to the cities, the remote landscapes to journeying overseas, Marshall's stories show a deep understanding of who and where we are. From the substantial body of work created over the last thirty years, Vincent O'Sullivan has selected sixty stories that give a wide representation of Marshall's range. He once wrote that short stories should aspire to a combination of 'intransigence and poetry', both of which are evident in this fine selection. This collection first published September 2008. ...Show more

Grand Union by Zadie Smith

$35.00 NZD

Category: Short Stories

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th e broken shards of his life, unable to move forward into a future that holds no place for him. A teenage scion of the technocratic elite chases spectres through a premium virtual reality, trailed by a little girl with a runny nose and no surviving family. We all take a much-needed break from this mess, on a package holiday where the pool's electric blue is ceaselessly replenished, while political and environmental collapse happen far away, to someone else. Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a sharply alert and slyly prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us. ...Show more