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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"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
Remnant - An Anthology of Microlit by Cassandra Atherton (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
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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
The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food by Ella Kate; Risbridger Young
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Head of Zeus Anthologies Ser.
A deliciously moreish collection of the 100 finest pieces of writing on food, glorious food. In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find authors, cooks and poets from Laurie Colwin, Salman ...Show more
The Dead of Winter - Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights by Cecily Gayford (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Vintage Murders Ser.
In the dead of winter, the veil between worlds is as thin as ice
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
Old Babes in the Wood 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 the ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and sma ...Show more
Always Will Be: Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed by Mykaela Saunders
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
From the 2022 David Unaipon winner comes an outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and c ...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