Short stories

From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the...

‘Crook has stepped on to the gore-slicked stage with a deliciously gruesome portfolio of twisty tales’ DAILY MAIL’Plenty of creepy fun to be had’ GUARDIANThere’s a new horror behind every door… Welcome to Silverweed Road – a once quiet suburban street...

‘Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way’ Lena Dunham Maya’s dog is dying, and...

The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer’s block. Divorced, with...

Praised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe...

“A harrowing portrait of race relations in America, as beautiful as it is urgent.”—Entertainment Weekly“Black satire with bite, like Zora Neale Hurston used to do, with a smile and a sharp elbow. A touch of Paul Beatty, a dose of Dolemite, and a...

A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018‘The real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing’ MAX PORTER'She has arrived in a class of her own' SARAH PERRY'Funny, playful and utterly bravura' MELISSA HARRISON The...

In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens...

‘Superb’ THE TIMES‘Joyous’ THE OBSERVERThe beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love – friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts...

Some of Agatha Christie’s earliest stories – including her very first – which show the Queen of Crime in the making… A macabre recurring dream … revenge against a blackmailer … jealousy, infidelity and a tortured conscience … a stolen gemstone … the...

A New York Times BestsellerA sparkling anthology starring Lady Whistledown—the elusive Regency-era gossip columnist popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ...

Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold… And suddenly...

Black Days & Bloody Nights, a collection of Greg Chapman's acclaimed and original fiction: Is the world coming to an end, or is it all in Marion's head? Would you let in a monster to save your child? A writer's son is his most horrifying creation. A...

Come closer, let me tell you a tale or three. Sit nearer the firelight and if you notice the folk in the shadows, best not garner their attention.Beware the gifts, treasures and promises you make along this journey. There are temptations and curses too,...

Seasons have always been connected with the passing of time and the changes of life, inspiring myths, folklore, poems, and songs. In this short collection award-winning J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky have decided to pay tribute to the old tradition of...

An agency that sends social workers into the homes of grieving families to impersonate dead loved ones... The kind old woman who saved a teenager's life but now finds herself haunted by the weight of a cheated suicide... And the daughter of a...

Late Hybrids in these twenty short stories are the second and third generations of Greek Australians who, having a strong sense of their Greek identity and traditions, are not always at ease in the modern Australian world. The stories explore not just...

Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author's own hybridity with...

'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' - The Australian Eleven stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from a Bangla jungle to the...

*Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize**Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022*Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often...

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adas Award for New WritingLonglisted for the Stella Prize 2020Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: FictionThe House of Youssef is a...

Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which...

"Line by line, Cahill's writing is musical, assured: cumulatively, her seriousness is evident, her ambition impressive." - Hilary MantelLetter to Pessoa is the first collection of short stories by award-winning Goan-Australian poet Michelle...

Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. 'I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest,...

A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies.The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ALS GOLD MEDALFora long time Western Sydney has been the political flash-point of the nation,but it has been absent from Australian literature. Luke Carman's first book offiction changeS all that: a collection of monologues and...

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be medicated... I just want to be in Cyprus, why would I want to be in Australia.....

This collection of short fiction is an imagining of the impact - personal, interpersonal, psychological and existential - of our forthcoming colonisation of Mars. It interweaves threads of the isolation, loss and alienation of living on inhospitable...

A man wakes up one morning to find an unknown womanin bed beside him. A failed writer devises an ingenious method of plagiarizingthe work of others. Whole properties in a suburban neighbourhood beginvanishing overnight. An ancient grand piano is...

Ever been arrested for drinking more than three sips of beer while standing up? Is there justice for sausages? How boring is heaven? Would you still rescue a drowning man if you knew the amount of trouble you could get into by saving his life? Intrigued?...

After some time in Western Australia and New Zealand Lawson returned to Sydney in 1898 and published with Angus and Robertson in 1900 the works On the Tracks and Over the Sliprails. Over the...

We're travelling light, without excess, into our future. Gran had been rough as she uncurled my hands from their position, gripped around the open car doorframe, and shoved me into the passenger seat.A man returns from World...

“Martens’ work would be impressive in any era, but it is particularly timely today. It is wonderful to come upon an author who faces into the horrific absurdities of modern life without flinching, a stylist who delivers his most powerful satiric points...

From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness, neurodivergence, sexuality, and self-discovery. Frumkin’s latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre-defying stories that...

The first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad audience.“Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts is why I want to read. There are few books at all...

A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New...

Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing...

Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Katie Fforde. Originally published as novellas, this paperback contains all fours parts of the story from irresistible beginning to heart-warming conclusion. Eve has always lived on Ennisfarne, an idyllic island...

Longlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Awards.Excitable girls rush out to meet life; what could go wrong? A masterful debut about the terrifying thrills of innocence from a voice of experience.   Teenagers sneak out to the creek for a wild New Year's...

Unpicking the stitches of gender and genre, the stories in this searing, funny, haunting debut explore how our ideas of womanhood shape us, and what they cost us.Winner of the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ...

Classic tales of fairies and princesses, ducklings and dancing shoes from the master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.  All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” “The Red Shoes,”...

Winner of the 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award's UTS Glenda Adams Award for New WritingShortlisted for 2022 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary AwardChosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in the Sydney Morning Herald and Kill Your DarlingsDark and...

Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...

Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing...

A beautifully illustrated book of ghost stories, written and illustrated by film artist and screenwriter Iain McCaig, depicting daily life in Smalltown, where Lake Wobegon meets Norman Rockwell, with monsters.Smalltown is a special place, and these 14...