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Thirst for Love
$22.99
A story of a frustrated, confined woman who becomes lost in a psychological maze of her own creation - a labyrinth of jealousy, loneliness and longing.Etsuko is a trapped woman...
Voices of the Fallen Heroes
$32.99
A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of...
No One Knows
$26.95
No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to...
Exhalation
$22.99
‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories...
As The Crow Flies
$22.99
From the winner of the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Award, As the Crow Flies is Véronique Tadjo's evocative collection of short stories. Writing in exquisite, poetic prose, Véronique Tadjo...
The Snow Ghost
$22.99
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted...
The House of Hunger
$24.99
'One of African literature's most fascinating and unorthodox figures' Brian Chikwava 'When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded...
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery
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A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for...
No Sweetness Here
$22.99
This collection of short stories sees Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Africa's leading feminist and postcolonial writers, exercise the powerful effect of oral storytelling in her moving tales of shifting...
Korean Folktales
$19.99
Classic Stories from Korea's Enchanted Past Fifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world. Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic...
Stories of Your Life and Others
$22.99
The first story collection by science fiction legend Ted Chiang and the basis for the Oscar-winning film Arrival. With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful debut collection,...
The Real Osamu Dazai
$29.99
A Life in Twenty Stories "Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras."...
A Walk in the Night
$22.99
In this previously banned collection of seven short stories, Alex La Guma vividly reveals the plight of the poor and oppressed in apartheid South Africa. Characterised by his striking style...
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories
$26.99
A landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in EnglishThe prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the...
Damned If I Do
$22.99
An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed...
Ways of Sunlight
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From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility With equal humour, sorrow...
Kafka: A Manga Adaptation
$26.99
Two cult-favorite Japanese artists present eerie graphic adaptations of 9 classic Kafka short stories, with hypnotic illustrations that will appeal to fans of Junji Ito Franz Kafka’s work is given...
Phoenix Fled
$22.99
'Listen to me, child. You will be a woman soon and must behave well and with modesty. The Kazi will ask you three times whether you will marry Kalloo Mian....
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
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'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' — Haruki MurakamiThe stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of...
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
$19.99
From ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ (Toni Morrison) – the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon – a collection of remarkable short stories from...
The Ways of White Folks
$22.99
VINTAGE CLASSICS' LANGSTON HUGHES A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in...
The Looking Glass
$24.99
Translated by Daniel HahnMachado de Assis is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating story writers who ever lived. What appear at first to be stately social satires reveal unanticipated...
Te Kaihau | The Windeater
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Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985...
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
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Poems & StoriesThe Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts. Part...
Krik? Krak!
$27.99
Edwidge Danticat's first short story collection. Gorgeous 10th anniversary edition — complete with a new story! Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to...
Pounamu Pounamu
$24.99
Over 50 years in print! Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in...
Rashōmon and other stories
$16.99
Ryunosuke Akutagawa rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential modern Japanese writers. He is known as 'the father of the Japanese short story' and 'Rashōmon is...
Calypso in London
$22.99
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Sam Selvon is now widely considered to...
Real Time
$22.99
A stunning collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth. Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about...
Death in Midsummer
$22.99
Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writersBringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human...
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Translated by James B. HarrisThis collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe.Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its...
Hell Screen
$22.99
Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired...
Afternoon Raag
$22.99
A perfect miniature of a novel about arrivals and departures, new worlds and old homes.A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali...
A Strange and Sublime Address
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The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).Abhi, a Bengali boy,...
Night Train to the Stars
$22.99
Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless feel of the best...
Heat and Light
Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award Ellen van Neerven's award-winning collection of stories was inspired by the elements, and is exceptionally imaginative and varied. In this award-winning work of...
Purple Threads
$19.99
Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai. Growing...
The Window Seat
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Runner-up for the inaugural Vogel Award in 1980, Archie Weller is a master storyteller. In these short stories, take a seat and rethink what it means to be Australian.Since Archie...
The Man Who Lived Underground
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The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the police Fred Daniels, a black...
The Siren's Lament
$24.99
Essential storiesA new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasyThe sage Confucius travels to a kingdom ruled by a...
Hunger
$22.99
A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant familiesThe novella and five stories that make up...
