Borderlands Riding the Slipstream by Paul Collins (ed.)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A smorgasbord of original stories, poems and art by leading Australian authors, poets and illustrators Age range 11+Borderlands — Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old.Featuring over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia’s best-loved authors — including Ursula Dubo ...Show more
Kindling by Kathleen Jennings
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A fabulous debut of folk tales and fantasies by an award winning author and illustrator. Small fires start in the hearts of Kathleen Jennings's characters and irresistibly spread to those around them. Journeys are taken, debts repaid, disguises put on, and lessons offered - although not often learned - ...Show more
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1 by Patrick McGuinness (ed)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans 400 years, taking the ...Show more
Great Japanese Stories - 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
This hand-picked selection from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates the best literature to emerge from Japan since the twentieth century.From a surreal fairy tale to a heart-rending evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, this vibrant collection provides unique cultural insight ...Show more
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator); Bryan Karetnyk
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
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New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circ ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
This is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pai ...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 Times A young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst's daughter.A police officer's mistress clandestinely cares for his d ...Show more
Remnant - An Anthology of Microlit by Cassandra Atherton (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers reflect on the theme of remnant in contexts ranging from the natural world and the urban environment through to the personal and the political. Each contribution, at less than a page in length, celebrates with concision and creativity the persisten ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A father and son muse on the value of fame and fortune and the path of chujia or receding from the world by becoming a monk. On Christmas Eve a lonely immigrant travels from his deserted outer suburb to the city in search of life. Spouses navigate their adult son's need to 'rebrand' himself with an Engl ...Show more