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For more than ten years, the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have organised a biennial writing competition to promote Maori stories and writers. This is a collection of the best short stories and novel extracts from the 2015 awards. The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English, Best Short Story written in Maori and Best Novel Extract.

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Rupa Maitra's dbut collection of short stories lures us into diverse worlds. Some of her stories spring from her background in music and medicine, some from her Bengali heritage and all from a vivid imagination.

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The people in these stories do not speak very much, these people plant gardens, chop wood, make jam - everyday tasks that go on through grief and pleasure, childhood and old-age, making a framework for endurance. They are 'Ordinary people'. This title presents the stories that echo the precisely observed landscape of the author's poems.

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Zetties fictional story. She stops talking, at age seven, and starts to listen to the worlds she finds in language and books, and to the people and places she encounters as she moves across continents.

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Twenty funny, tender, compassionate, sharply observed stories whose subjects range from a woman cooking up a storm to fend off a lover; a woman who is arrested for drunk driving after attending a wedding anniversary; a meditation on breasts; a cat called Min, and three sisters who commemorate their mother each year with a piano recital.

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Third collection of original writing edited by Marco Sonzogni. 'Visible Cities' features eleven emerging Aotearoa authors under the age of thirty who have each taken a city and written a short story that pays tribute to Italo Calvino and addresses the bigger themes that shape their city in the twenty-first century.

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A poignant and compelling collection of short stories about those whose lives have been marked by the risk of displacement, from the winner of the AKO Caine Prize

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Fourteen stories that explore love, identity, politics, fantasy and a fresh take on an age-old fairy tale, transporting readers into the heart of contemporary writing from Assam.

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Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.

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We asked listeners to be honest, creative, funny, engaging and evocative in their writing to try to make us laugh, cry and think. We never imagined we would get the quantity and quality of entries that we did for A Page from My Life. Ray DArcy

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Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

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Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas tales

Have yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas...

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Three of Chekhov's lesser-known stories, now beautifully rendered into English by novelist David Helwig. Sublimely illustrated by Seth.

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Set around the time of the 2003 Iraq War, Act of Grace contains seven linked short stories about family, violence, fear, and sacrifice.

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Awarded the 2018 Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Fiction, Melanie Chengs Australia Day paints a vivid and absorbing panorama of contemporary Australia

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The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day.

**WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE**


Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby.

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The American Dream is actually a nightmare.

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Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light, Kinsella's haunting collection of stories.