The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: The\Penguin English Library
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the ...Show more
A Literary Christmas - An Anthology by British Library
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over the ba ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * C ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket - Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
AKirkus Must-Read Fiction Book Coming This FallAPeople magazine "Book of the Week"ANew York TimesEditors' ChoiceAKirkus Reviews"Fully Booked" Editors' PickThe uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe) ...Show more
Return to Harikoa Bay by Owen Marshall
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
New work from the master of the short story and author of the story 'Coming Home in the Dark' made into a major feature film. 'Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it's always in a strong wind, and that's blowing now as I drive up the long, unsealed track to the house and sheds.' So begins on ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more
The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. "The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You’d take it all back if you could. Everything.You’d go down there and you’d." And talks back too. "If I’m fucked, you’re coming with me. Sincerely, the stream." From rai ...Show more
Such A Sweet Singing: Poetry To Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn (edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the people who read them. Here is poetry for those no longer being spoken to but speaking, no longer being looked at but looking, from the contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh to the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna ...Show more
You Have a Friend in 10A - Stories by Maggie Shipstead
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER SHORTLISTED AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING GREAT CIRCLE ... 'Maggie Shipstead combines cinematic scope with a poet's attention to detail' THE TIMES A collection of sparkling award-winning stories from Maggie Shipstead, epic storyteller and astonishing chronicler of the daring ...Show more
The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Featuring the legendary and groundbreaking poem "Howl," this remarkable volume showcases a selection of Allen Ginsberg's poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews and contains sixteen pages of his personal photographs. One of the Beat Generation's most renowned poets and writers, Allen Gi ...Show more
I Would Prefer Not To - Essential Stories by Herman Melville
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.