A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$37.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Inspired meditations on storytelling from one of the worlds finest, most accomplished and adored writers. Pullman is a master of fiction and shares his thoughts on the origin of his own stories, the craft of writing and the storytellers who have meant the most to him. The art of storytelling is everywhe ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler, Alexander Pushkin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature - including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, ...Show more
Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway
$38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happened in Elizabeth McCracken's eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumo ...Show more
The Author's Cut - Short Stories by Owen Marshall
$36.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by the author, this latest selection of stories includes 'Coming Home in the Dark', the inspiration for a new feature film. Owen Marshall is regarded as one of our finest living writers. His stories capture the imagination of readers and refuse to let go. From dark to funny, acerbic to warm, they ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
$13.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima (Ginny Takemori (Translator); Ian MacDonald (Translator))
$22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Prize-winning Japanese author offers stories haunted by history.
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