Wild Places: Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories
A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shif ...Show more
Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories
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 the new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not only expl ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a d ...Show more
Signs of Life by Amy Head
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol, and boomer Carla ...Show more
Huia Short Stories #15
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories
Here are the best short fiction stories, short non-fiction pieces and poetry from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2023 as judged by Emma Espiner, Carol Hirschfeld, Maiki Sherman, Mike Ross, Hemi Kelly and Robert Sullivan. This competition, run by the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers, is ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Ruin and Other Stories by Emma Hislop
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and sometimes the violence they exact in reveng ...Show more
Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques and Other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back – only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south ...Show more
The Pink Jumpsuit - Short Fictions, Tall Truths by Emma Neale
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In Emma Neale’s first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; from the true to the tall. This collection includes some of her internationally recognised flash fiction and more extended examinations of the eerie gaps and odd swerves in intimate relationships. There are ...Show more
Middle Distance - Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand by Craig Gamble (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
The stories in Middle Distance travel from the empty expanses of the southern ocean to the fall of a once great house, from the wharekai of a marae to the wasteland of Middle America. Longer than a traditional short story and shorter than a novella, the long story is a form that both compresses and spra ...Show more
Lit: Stories from Home by Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers have been brought together in this new short story collection. Sixteen stories have been selected specifically for New Zealand/Aotearoa secondary English classroom teaching, with stories exploring ideas abou ...Show more
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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