Night Side of the River (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A modern and masterful collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'A master of her material' VANITY FAIR 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. ...Show more
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at so ...Show more
Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Named a 'Most Anticipated Book of 2021' by Lit Hub and The Millions 'Sestanovich's elegant prose takes seriously the quiet unrest that can ravage a life' - Raven Leilani, author of Luster 'Astonishing - one of the best story collections I've read in a long time' Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood: Collected Stories by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore th ...Show more
Pale Horse, Pale Rider The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her fiance on his way to war, and "Noon Wine", a haunting story of tragedy and sc ...Show more
Salt: Selected Essays and Stories by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pascoe has been described as a 'living national treasure' and his work as 'revelatory'. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected ...Show more
Seize the Fire: Three Speeches by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers . . . if we are finally to once more go forward as a people it's time our dreamers were brought in from the cold. Richard F ...Show more
Spinoza's Overcoat: Poets by Subhash Jaireth
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
'It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ....' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and othe ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, ...Show more
The Astral Traveller's Handbook And Other Tales: Bedtime Buddha Series by David Michie
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
oWhatever dreams he was having, Jason knew they had nothing to do with his physical body. His eyes were firmly shut and his consciousness withdrawn from his senses when all this was going on. Yet in his dreams he experienced sights, sounds and even visceral sensations much more intensely than when he wa ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
In this deeply intimate and insightful work, Daylight describes how her rich storehouse of reading has nourished her life, and how her life informs her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection - the details - that really matter: what we see when someone close to us dies, w ...Show more
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the height of his power as a writer In the final years of his life, Chekhov produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces, and some of the most highly-regarded works in Russian literature. The poignant 'The Lady with the L ...Show more