Short stories
Tangent Books Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 14
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£10.20
The Conrad Press The Discarded Chapter and other stories
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£999.99
Monash University Publishing Verge 2012: Inverse
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£11.39
Monash University Publishing Verge 2014: Everything and Nothing
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£16.14
Monash University Publishing Verge 2023: Defiant
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£17.99
Ford Street Publishing Pty Ltd Borderlands Riding the Slipstream
Book SynopsisBorderlands Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old. It features over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia's best-loved authors, including Ursula Dubosarsky, Steven Herrick, Leigh Hobbs, Barry Jonsberg, Sophie Masson and Shaun Tan.Illustrated by quirky artist Anne Ryan, this unique collection spans a kaleidoscope of genres and themes.
£21.59
Monash University Publishing Verge 2017: Chimera
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£13.29
NeWest Press Paper Teeth
Book SynopsisWinner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize!Shortlisted for the 2017 Alberta Readers'' Choice Award!Finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards!Shortlisted for Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Lauralyn Chow''s debut, Paper Teeth, follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who reside in Edmonton, Alberta. While playing with time and place, from Edmonton in the 1960s and 70s up to present-day Calgary, Lauralyn Chow creates a world of walking dolls, family car trips, fashion and frosty makeup, home renovations inspired by pop culture, and moving up to big, new houses. The interconnected stories found in Paper Teeth are fun, funny, and heart-warming journeys about the pursuit of identity and the crafting of home.With domestic tomfoolery and through deft observation and prismatic-voiced humour-including ironic asides-Lauralyn Chow reveals how family nourishes hope.
£14.39
NeWest Press Lost Animal Club
Book SynopsisRunner-up in the Prose Fiction Category at the 2016 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!Winner of Best Book Cover at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!In his debut story collection, Kevin A. Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks as a menagerie of burdened characters reveal their beast-like traits. In his desperate survival plan, a pre-teen rescues dogs in order to sell them back to their well-off owners; a marathon pacesetter reflects on the pace she sets both on and off the race route, as she navigates her imperfect marriage; a man confronts his drive for alcohol and the deadly and isolating consequences that leave him to risk his last scrap of control; and two kids, for different reasons, execute their plan to capture a bear cub.,Lost Animal Club combines murky sensibilities with finely rendered, precise prose. The writing is gripping and honest, with metaphors and similes as startling as the harsh choices the characters make.
£14.39
Great Plains Publications Ltd Will: Stories
Book SynopsisWill is Shane Neilson’s debut collection of short fiction. The book ranges from straightforward East Coast depictions of alcoholism and frustrated farming told in dense, lyric prose, to experimental works that play overtly with language and form. In Will, a boy is beaten by his father; another father cares for his epileptic son; an anesthetist addicted to sevoflurane ponders the works of Michael Jackson; Vladimir Nabokov takes a writer-in-residence position at Memorial University of Newfoundland; and World War I poet John McCrae dies. And yes, there is a hockey story. Individual stories have appeared widely in magazines including Queen’s Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, Geist, and The Canadian Medical Association Journal, among others.Trade Review"Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." -- Michael Winter"A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" -- Steven Heighton
£16.96
NeWest Press Love at Last Sight
Book SynopsisSo I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained within the homes of ex-lovers, the ones who caught a glimpse and ran away.In the neon-slick streets of Thea Bowering''s imagination, monster girls and femme flâneurs roam, anthropologist''s eyes on barroom denizens, disguising themselves in men''s clothing and embarking on doomed love affairs. Old World meets New World as the cafés and piazzas of Europe''s capitals intermingle with the dust and desolation of the 21st Century modern West.Strikingly modern while also filled with fin de siècle regret, Thea Bowering''s first story collection is shot through with allusion and timeless themes given new life.
£13.29
NeWest Press Some Extremely Boring Drives
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2015 ReLit Award for Short Fiction!Shortlisted for the 2015 Trade Fiction Book Award at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards!From the multi-talented author of Inventory and Open Pit comes a new collection of short stories, filled with lost souls drifting through exotic locales, reinventing themselves on the fly.Marguerite Pigeon''s gifts for quick characterization and muscular dialogue are on full display in this collection, where you will encounter competitors in an endurance race at the edge of the world; the secret lives of stray cats, and those who try to catch them night after night; an interview with a once-famous musician who seems to be losing touch with reality; a date in Mexico City that ends in a kidnapping; a woman who comes face to face with her mirror image and finds that she''s taken another path; and a girl who''s determined to never, ever stand still again.
£14.39
NeWest Press Entropic
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award at the East Coast Literary Awards!Shortlisted for the Book Design Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for the 2015 New Brunswick Book Awards!In this collection of stories, author and filmmaker R. W. Gray (Crisp) finds the place where the beautiful, the strange, and the surreal all meet-sometimes meshing harmoniously, sometimes colliding with terrible violence, launching his characters into a redefined reality.A lovestruck man discovers the secret editing room where his girlfriend erases all her flaws; a massage artist finds that she has a gift, but is uncertain of the price; a beautiful man sets out to be done with beauty; and a gay couple meets what appear to be younger versions of themselves, learning that history can indeed repeat itself.
£14.24
Anvil Press Publishers Inc I'm Not Scared of You or Anything
Book SynopsisThe characters in I'm not Scared of You or Anything are invigilators, fake martial arts experts, buskers, competitive pillow fighters, drug runners, and, of course, grad students. This collection of comedic short stories and exploratory texts is the ninth book by the critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jon Paul Fiorentino. Deftly illustrated by Maryanna Hardy, these texts ask important questions, like: How does a mild mannered loser navigate the bureaucratic terrain of exam supervision? What happens when you replace the text of Christian Archie comics with the text of Hélène Cixous? And, most important of all, what would it be like if Mr. Spock was a character in the HBO series GIRLS?
£14.39
Caitlin Press Jane and the Whales
Book SynopsisIn this playful yet poignant debut collection, Andrea Routley muddies the line between the physical and emotional worlds: reality becomes not simply what is in front of us, but a mutable, fragile place in the imagination. On the verge of divorce, and in a pot-induced haze, Tom Douglas prepares to roast a pork shank in his newand contentiousAuthentic Italian Brick Oven, but some surprise visitors threaten to spoil the dinner. In a story set in 1997, the last earth-bound member of a Hale-Bopp suicide cult reconsiders her final act. In an oceanside campground, one woman resolves to lead an ascetic life, but a dog makes this difficult in a surreal turn of events. After being accused of sexual harassment, a sharp-witted but naïve teenager discovers a surprising truth about her teacher. In another story, the body of a teenager murdered thirty years earlier is uncovered near Mallory''s childhood school. Back for the memorial service, and with only vague memories of the place, she tries to make sense of his death, but walks into an unexpected mystery. In the title story, Jane and the Whales, Jane is on a quest to discover the meaning of her uncontrollable astral projections, which always lead her back to the same diminishing gay bar. Violence, transmutation, log booms, tenderness, a game of Bat and Mothall have a role to play in these wildly diverse stories. Many of Routley''s characters suffer loss, shame and guilt. But the promise of clarity comes only with doubt and that frightening unravelling of certainty. With this dense and imaginative collection, Andrea Routley has firmly planted herself in the literary landscape.
£11.39
Great Plains Publications Ltd The View from the Lane: Stories
Book SynopsisSpanning the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, this masterful collection of linked stories follows the life of Amy, through tales stretching back to her youth in 1950s Ottawa, her experiences as a young wife and mother in a small Ontario town, and her later years back in the city. Through a collage of unique voices and points of view — including a dog that introduces us to the neighborhood where Amy lived as a child – The View from the Lane examines the authenticity of memory and the brimming life in the everyday.Trade Review"a unique creative vision" -- Isabel Huggan, author of The Elizabeth Stories"Tunneys prose is the kind that makes her reader sit up and take notice." Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This"A masterful collection of linked stories" -- The 49th Shelf"Each story stands on its own, but woven together in one book, the stories become richer, revealing a woman's life through memories and the people who influenced her. The View From The Lane is a satisfying read." -- The Winnipeg Review
£11.21
Great Plains Publications Ltd Night Moves
Book SynopsisAs a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance tells the sensual story of becoming much closer to his wife's dear friend Juanita; while a reluctant giant catches up with gangsters Torchy and Sfen in a story with shades of supernatural and earthly menace. Night Moves continues to explore the incredible lives of indigenous characters introduced in The Lesser Blessed, Angel Wing Splash Pattern, The Moon of Letting Go, and Godless but Loyal to Heaven. If this is your first time to Fort Simmer and Fort Smith, welcome. If it's another visit—come on in: we've left the lights on for you.Trade Review"An original voice from the true north strong and free." - Tomson Highway"For readers who are familiar with Van Camp's earlier work, this book is an absolute dream. If Night Moves is your first introduction to Van Camps's world, his sexy, seedy prose will beg you to read more. [editor's note: you should go read more. Now.]" - Rabble.ca"More importantly, the stories continue Van Camp's penchant for slow builds towards powerful, sudden shifts in the plot that transform the story situation." - Winnipeg Free Press "Van Camp has a skill at slipping into the skin of each of his characters in a way that always pulls me in." - News/North"This group of 11 electrifying and sometimes horrifying tales â several revisiting characters from Van Campâs previous books â teems with violence, shame, desire for revenge, sexuality, the supernatural, and hard-won second chances ... A book to be absorbed slowly and deliberately, one story at a time, Night Moves is a dark and diverse collection with unforgettable characters, deep wisdom, and painful truths." â Starred Review, Quill & Quire - -
£13.46
Great Plains Publications Ltd The Light that Remains
Book SynopsisThe despair of refugees has haunted us long before the civil war in Syria. Lyse Champagne's evocative new story collection attempts to put these collective and individual tragedies into an historical context.Two Armenian sisters write to each other in the year leading up to the deportations. A young Ukrainian mother embroiders her life story as famine threatens. A boy travels to Hong Kong by train while the Japanese march towards his hometown of Nanjing. A Jewish girl collects words and falls in love as she hides in a French mountain village in 1942. A Cambodian refugee recalls his childhood in his home country and his new life in Canada on a makeshift stage. A Rwandan family prepares to emigrate days before President Habyarimana's plane is shot down.These stories span the twentieth century and reach into the twenty-first. We discover letters, maps, and the kindness of strangers. Word lists, a falling piano, and young love. Hiding places, history lessons, and conversations around the table. Music, a makeshift stage, and life breathed into memories.
£13.46
Great Plains Publications Ltd The Sign for Migrant Soul
Book SynopsisIn nine memorable new stories and with tragicomic flair, acclaimed master of the short form Richard Cumyn dramatizes lives in tumult and transition. If the sign for migrant soul is an enigma, this remarkably upbeat and innovative collection is anything but.
£13.46
Mage Publishers Daneshvar's Playhouse: A Collection of Stories
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£999.99
Mage Publishers Sutra & Other Stories
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£12.82
Sagging Meniscus Press Dick Cheney in Shorts
Book SynopsisThis darkly humorous collection of short fiction by Charles Holdefer, author of The Contractor and Back in the Game, revolves gracefully around an esoteric and, it goes without saying, entirely fictional account of the imaginary formative years of someone who at times resembles America''s most notorious -- so far! -- Vice President. This centre provides a jumping -- off point for free-wheeling, fanciful explorations, both poetic and satirical, into the archaeology of the banality of evil, that reveal, with a light touch and forgiving good humor, the soul-distorting burdens of duty, repression and narcissism in our daily life.
£9.50
Secant Publishing Collected Stories
Book SynopsisThe 19 short stories in this collection by award-winning author Barbara Lockhart are set in the small towns and fields that stretch across the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the land between the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean where evidence of long history and present-day struggles abounds. In this slice of rural America, there can be seen and appreciated a sense of the raw humanity of neighbors and strangers alike, as their choices and actions reverberate over days, years, and generations.
£16.19
Sagging Meniscus Press The Hard Life of a Stone
Book SynopsisDrawn both from previously unanthologised published work and from the authors personal horde of typescripts from the 1960s to the 1980s, this collection of stories centres around philosophical themes: the awareness of existence and experience, of reality and truth, and the relativity of time and place.
£17.99
Simon & Schuster Cat Person and Other Stories
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£14.40
Otago University Press The General and the Nightingale: Dan Davin’s War
Book SynopsisDan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in which the nation was engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davins 20 war stories, some drawn from his war diaries and loosely based on his experiences as a wartime scholar-soldier and those of his fellow soldiers in the British and New Zealand armies. They yield an unparalleled insight into the Kiwi or Anzac soldier at war during the Mediterranean and African desert campaigns of World War II. Editor Janet Wilson notes they can be read as fictionalised accounts rather than imaginative fictions. Born and raised in a working-class Catholic family in Southland, Davin was a Rhodes Scholar and had recently completed a degree at Oxford when he enlisted in the British Army in 1939. After receiving a commission in 1940 he successfully applied to be transferred to the New Zealand forces. He saw active service in Greece and North Africa, was wounded in Crete, and rose to become General Freybergs intelligence officer in the Italian campaign. The General and the Nightingale updates an earlier collection of Davins war stories published in 1986 as The Salamander in the Fire and long out of print. This new publication features comprehensive notes, a glossary, a chronology, a map of story locations, a bibliography and an extensive introduction by Janet Wilson. It is a companion volume to The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davins Southland short stories (OUP, 2007), which is also being reissued.
£22.06
NeWest Press Echolocation
Book SynopsisWinner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada! All Lit Up Book Club SelectionIn this provocative collection of short stories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnect from entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuous imagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple who transform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote research expedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conference BBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life by imaginatively excavating the fossils of BC''s Burgess Shale; and an ambitious bylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city''s streets.In Echolocation, Karen Hofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.
£14.39
NeWest Press Goth Girls of Banff
Book SynopsisShortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Award in the short fiction category!Finalist for Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!John O''Neill''s gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sister team of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountain trails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family driving west; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear, has an unusual encounter with both technology and humanity.Goth Girls of Banff is a superb collection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those on an iced-over mountain road.
£14.39
Sef Hughes Salt Water: And Other Short Stories
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£9.49
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Re–forming World Literature – Katherine Mansfield
Book SynopsisThe ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a supreme example of a writer who is positioned between a number of different borders and boundaries: between modernism and postcolonialism; between the short story and other genres (like the novella or poetry, or non-fiction, such as letters, diaries, reviews, and translations); between Europe and New Zealand. In pointing to the global production and dissemination of short stories, and in particular the growing reception of Mansfields work worldwide since her death in 1923, the volume shows how literary modernism can be read in a myriad of ways in terms of the contemporary category of new World Literature.Trade ReviewThis important collection gathers an international group of scholars to position Mansfields work in global literary frameworks. Lively, engaging, and timely interpretations emerge here, reading Mansfields writing alongside that of a range of authors with whom her work has not been compared before. Highly original and drawing on a dazzling range of reference, these essays offer new understandings not only of Mansfields life and work, but of the short storys history and place in world literature.Prof. Rishona Zimring, Lewis & Clark College
£26.25
Wartelsteiner GmbH Short Stories Minibook - Limited Gilt-Edged
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£21.24
Aiora Press Thracian Tales
Book SynopsisGeorgios Vizyenos (1849-1896) is one of Greece's best-loved writers. His stories, written in 1883-4, are set in his native Thrace, a corner of Europe where Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey meet. Each title poses an enigma: Where did Yorgis' grandfather travel on his only journey? What was Yorgis' mother's sin? Who was responsible for his brother's murder? At the end of each story the narrator possesses some knowledge that forces him - and his readers - to revise their earlier assumptions, which were based on incomplete knowledge. Because Vizyenos wants us to experience the difficult transition from ignorance to knowledge, he leaves us in suspense until the very end. Vizyenos' stories evoke a time when individual Greeks and Turks could share each other's joys and pains despite the hostile relations between their governments.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The one and only journey of his life; My mother's sin; Who was my brothers murderer?; Chronological outline.
£11.39
Motilal Banarsidass, A Slice of Life: An Anthology of Short Stories
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£4.99
Hind Pocket Books Hunger and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThirteen timeless short stories by Narendra Kohli explore human subjects like hunger, addiction, love, and loss. His narrative style captivates readers, drawing comparisons to Premchand and Tolstoy for his deep understanding of human emotions and relationships.
£999.99
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Rupa Book of Wicked Stories
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£5.95
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Love Stories/favorite Fairy Tales
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£11.99
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Great Escape & Great Crime Stories 2-in-1
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£12.79
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Party Time in Mussoorie
Book SynopsisIt is very kind of people to invite me to their parties, especially as I do not throw parties myself or invite anyone anywhere. At more than one party I have been known to throw things at people. In spite of thisor maybe because of itI get invited to these affairs. There''s nothingike being able to see the funny side of things inife. Whether it is a belt that decides to get hooked on to another passenger''s bag or monkeys who visit and take refuge in theoo or even the omelettes that don''t turn out exactly the way they were intended, Ruskin Bond brings alive each of these situations with wry humour and a generous dose of wit. Party Time in Mussoorie is as much fun to read as it is to attend any of the weird and wonderful parties Ruskin Bond describes in this collection.
£7.19
Orient Paperbacks Strange Meeting: and Other Stories
Book SynopsisA collection of short stories by Saros Cowasjee explores diverse cultural experiences and perspectives, blending cosmopolitan settings with Indian roots. Stories range from touching tales to reflections on untouchability and displacement, showcasing the author's unique storytelling style.
£7.12
Books for All Garland of Mythical Stories
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£5.48
Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Steep Steps to Nowhere
Book SynopsisA collection of short stories which deals with the enigma of life, beauty and misery. One finds in these stories, a reflection of our own lives as the characters battle the vicissitudes of fate and the vagaries of fortune.
£999.99
Pilgrims Publishing Tales of the Punjab
Book SynopsisA reprint of the 1894 classic Punjabi folk tales with annotations by R.C. Temple. Preserves wit and human values, appealing to children and folklore students.
£10.39
Cyberwit.net Collected Poems and Stories
Book SynopsisThe book has been Dedicated to the memory of Tor V gli (1949 - 2004) and the countless Asian tsunami victims of 2004.
£8.55
Jaico Publishing House Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years
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£11.24
Katha Visions Revisions
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£5.69
Katha Katha Prize Stories: v. 9
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£10.00
Katha Katha Prize Stories: v. 13
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£8.99
Shubhi Publications Selected Short Stories of Saaki
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£5.15
