Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Free Therapy heralds the arrival of a dazzling new voice in the vanguard of contemporary writing 'I ate it up in two sittings' Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes Two teenage girls enter a destructive competition with one another, fixated on each other's bodies; a woman's encounter with her ex forces her t ...Show more
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will de ...Show more
Self-Portraits: Stories by Osamu Dazai
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death-and the ...Show more
Hunter in Huskvarna by Sara Stridsberg
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" Christian House, Financial TimesA young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst's daughter. A police officer's mistress clandestinely cares for his dyin ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers 'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have be ...Show more
Furphy Anthology 2023 by The Furphy Literary Awards
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A glimpse into the lives of others is a tantalising offer, and short stories give us such a window. A slice of someone's life - whether it be in a factory, on a road trip north, the unquestioned love between two people, a child's way of seeing or their passion for art - provides us an escape into their ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Vocal LocalsShort Stories by the Writers on Fire by Danielle Babb
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Honeymoons by Roger Hudson, Rose Baring
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Through Writers' Eyes Ser.
The honeymoon - no other holiday inspires so much anticipation of blissful happiness, nor such potential for catastrophic disappointment. Using extracts from fiction and from real-life diaries and letters, Honeymoons: through writers' eyes takes you on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the he ...Show more