The Beauties - Essential Stories by Anton Chekov; Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpie ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
$21.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Roald Dahl - the grand master of the short story - turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies. Seven superb stories, full of Roald Dahl's usual magic, mystery and suspense: meet the boy who can talk to animals, the man who can see with his eyes cl ...Show more
Kerrin P Sharpe - Hoof by Kerrin P Sharpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around ?tamahua in sledges, and a woman named Johanna living in a small village in Greenland. She writes about ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Kirsten Krauth (editor)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths, and is the perfect stocking stuffer for Christmas 2023. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a ven ...Show more
The Penguin New Zealand Anthology: 50 Stories for 50 Years in Aotearoa by Harriet Allan (editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A milestone collection to celebrate a milestone event - To celebrate 50 years of publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This anthology brings together 50 enthralling stories from some of the country's finest writers. From established authors to new, emerging names, these stories track the changing styles, ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise! One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more
The Muse and Other Stories by Chua Kok Yee
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
An anthology of novella and short stories with supernatural elements based on Malaysia's multi-culture beliefs and myths The Muse and Other Stories is a collection of dark stories from the author of Not A Monster and Without Anchovies. An elderly editor discovers the secret of an author and his muse, an ...Show more
Bordering on Miraculous (Korero Series) by Saskia Leek; Lynley Edmeades
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Korero Series 4 | Reading Level: near fine
In this luscious collaboration poet Lynley Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek explore ideas of the quotidian and its everyday miracles. Their close, intense domestic observations merge with the philosophical, in a quest for deeper meaning. Leek's high-colour palette and symbolic investigation of the domes ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more
Signs of Life by Amy Head
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol, and boomer Carla ...Show more