The Captain's Daughter - Essential Stories by Alexander Pushkin; Anthony Briggs (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Pushkin Collection
A dazzling new collection of Pushkin's most fiction, in definitive translations by the acclaimed Anthony Briggs.
Everything in this Country Must by Colum McCann
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This Country Must. Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a ...Show more
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
An immeasurably influential female voice in post-war Japanese literature, Kono writes with a strange and disorienting beauty: her tales are marked by disquieting scenes, her characters all teetering on the brink of self-destruction. In the famous title story, the protagonist loathes young girls but comp ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Shirley Hazzard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected ...Show more
The Best of Me by David Sedaris
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked by David himself, these are stories that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, from "the funniest man alive" (Time Out New York). What could be a more tempting Christmas gif ...Show more
Dog-Eared: Poems about Humanity's Best Friend by Duncan Wu (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Dogs are at once among the most ordinary of animals and the most beloved by mankind. But what we may not realize is that for as long as we have loved dogs, our poets have been seriously engaged with them.In this collection, English professor Duncan Wu digs into the wealth of poetry about our furry frien ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg's reputation as one of America's greatest living writers of fiction.
Crow by Ted Hughes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work. This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career. Growing out of an invitation by ...Show more
Grimoire by Robin Robertson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
The new book from the author of The Long Take, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of both the Walter Scott Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.Like some lost chapters from the Celtic folk tradition, Grimoire tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violenc ...Show more
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Little Ways to Live a Big Life Ser.
'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor Who's Tardis.'Frank ...Show more
Supporting Cast by Kit de Waal
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories
***From the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon*** 'Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly' Stylist_______________________________________________ As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding ...Show more