In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a cl ...Show more
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
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 breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a sc ...Show more
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios an ...Show more
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Fiction The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia for ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | 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
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more