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 ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
To Be a Man - Stories 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 ...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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Supper Waltz Wilson and other New Zealand stories by Owen Marshall
$50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Owen Marshall - Selected Stories by Owen Marshall; Vincent O'Sullivan (ed.)
$50.00 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 ...Show more
Author's Choice O/P by Owen Marshall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A quirky, unusual New Zealand short story collection in which 24 of New Zealand's leading writers choose their own favourite story. Each writer supplies a short statement explaining why they regard this story so highly and there is a photograph.
Owen Marshall: Selected Stories by Owen Marshall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A generous selection from New Zealand's foremost writer of 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 per ...Show more
Irish Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart Davies
$14.99 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 ...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 ...Show more
Supporting Cast by Kit de Waal
$24.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
***From the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon*** 'Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly' Stylist_______________________________________________ As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding ...Show more