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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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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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 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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Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
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A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
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'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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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