(Paperback)
By: Shirley Hazzard
ISBN: 9781844081868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From the award-winning author of The Great Fire.
'Miss Hazzard's mind is a revolving light that picks a scene, holds it in utmost clarity for a moment against the surrounding darkness, and moves on' The New York Times
(Paperback, Film tie-in edition)
By: Annie Proulx
ISBN: 9780007205585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The inspiration behind Life of Pi director Ang Lees Brokeback Mountain is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales.
(Paperback)
By: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099287391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute, and 'The Three Fat Women of Antibes,' an extravagantly sardonic tale of abstention and greed, as well as a host of other brilliant tales.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Anderson
ISBN: 9780864734983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Comprising stories from other volumes as well as never-before-published tales, this collection of short stories mixes wit with warmth. Anderson's rich characters are set against a range of locations and time periods, from New Zealand's country farms of the mid-20th century to contemporary hair salons and everything in between.
(Paperback)
By: Patricia Grace
ISBN: 9780141006093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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This collection brings together all the stories contained in "Waiariki", "The Dream Sleepers", and "Electric City"
(Paperback)
By: Roque Larraquy
ISBN: 9781911231288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2019
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A surprising, engrossing and darkly funny novel that experiments with the idea of what it means to be human, from a powerful new voice in Argentinian fiction
(Paperback, Main)
By: Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 9780571245789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Akhil Sharma
ISBN: 9780571351787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Armed with Cosmopolitan magazine as his bible, Gopal embarks on a quest for suburban romance.
(Paperback)
By: Graeme Simsion
ISBN: 9781922790149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Marie Darrieussecq
ISBN: 9781911231349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Text Publishing
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For fans of Rachel Cusk, Crossed Lines is a critique of a womans midlife, middle-class crisis of conscience, told through the astute and clever voice of one of Frances most prolific writers. Translated by Penny Hueston.
(Paperback)
By: Bora Chung
ISBN: 9781761380525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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(Paperback)
By: Eugen Bacon
ISBN: 9781925760842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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(Paperback, 2nd ed.)
By: Tony Birch
ISBN: 9780702266331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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(Paperback)
By: Sigitas Parulskis
ISBN: 9780720620337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. 'Darkness and Company' is an unflinching and morally complex historical novel about a Lithuanian photographer who agrees to record the murderous actions of the occupying SS and local militia in return for the safe-keeping of his Jewish lover.
(Paperback)
By: Virginie Despentes
ISBN: 9781529430813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A tightly woven epistolary novel set during France's Covid lockdowns as its small cast of characters communicate via emails, Instagram messages, blogs and texts. A perfect encapsulation of our times, touching on gender, addiction, sexuality, consent, #MeToo, feminism, toxic masculinity, ageing, entitlement and privilege.
(Paperback)
By: Alice Munro
ISBN: 9780099578635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories.
(Paperback)
By: Koyoharu Gotouge
ISBN: 9781974732531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
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Complete the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba experience with these exciting novels featuring original stories.
(Paperback)
By: Koyoharu Gotouge
ISBN: 9781974732548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
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Complete the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba experience with these exciting novels featuring original stories.
(Paperback)
By: Mick Herron
ISBN: 9781529371284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From the bestselling and award winning 'master of the spy thriller' comes a collection of riveting short stories
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By: Clarrie Cameron
ISBN: 9781922142146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Magabala Books
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Yan Ge
ISBN: 9780571373116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star - nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing.
(Paperback)
By: SBS Emerging Writers' Competition
ISBN: 9781743799963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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(Paperback)
By: Breton Dukes
ISBN: 9780864739186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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From the author of the acclaimed short story collection Bird North, Empty Bones is a novella accompanied by five equally raw, intense, and comical short stories.
(Paperback)
By: Louise Wallace
ISBN: 9780864739131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Greatly influenced by happenings in poet Louise Wallaces life, this collection encompasses themes of location and family, and of the various journeys people take both geographically and emotionally. The poems span a range of formats and forms, from lines of verse to small prose pieces like miniature stories, and all are told through a clear, direct voice that is both accessible and relatable.
