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Short, short stories, sometimes known as flash fiction or microfiction, are one of the trickiest forms to write. Create a resonant world in fewer than 300 words? Not so easy! In this collection of 100 stories, a range of New Zealand writers, both well known and emerging, deliver emotionally charged ...

Discover the 'Aesopica' with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Aesop's Fables special edition features sprayed edges, colour end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention to detail set ...

A powerful new collection from one of Aotearoa's most esteemed fiction writers. Mythology and contemporary Maori 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 ...

Barry Crump was one of New Zealand's most popular authors ever, selling over 1 million copies of his 24 books between the publishing of A Good Keen Man in 1960 through to his death in 1996. Though the reputation he gained in the wake of his turbulent personal life sometimes overshadows his literary ...

Over 50 years in print! classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was his first book, which as he says in his new introduction 'fulfilled a childhood vow- to write about Maori using his own self and home place'. The vivid stories in this collection not onl...

A collection of unique, profound, and witty stories that relate animals' peculiarities to human attitudes. Animals is a collection of short stories in which each story takes a peculiar item about animals that appears, like fables, to shine a spotlight on different aspects of human behavior-like cate...

Following the highly acclaimed Nocturnes and Night Music, filled with eerie surprises and dark delights. takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis, from an English marsh haunted...

Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return? It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman. Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot mi...

'Be sure you don't answer the door to anyone you don't know.' A little Patricia Highsmith, a touch of Shirley Jackson: the long-neglected Celia Fremlin wrote short, sharp stories that threw women's lives into shiver-inducing relief. In each of these twinned tales, a mother and daughter meet again, and an ordinary home becomes the setting for a return of the repressed.

A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he ca...

'My only concern', John McGahern once said, 'is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply.' 'The Country Funeral' witnesses three brothers, John, Philly and Fonsie Ryan, as they travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern'...

'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.' When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Ch...

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known ...

Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre authority John Landis. This beautifully presented highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; othe...

Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like ...

In the wake of Hilary Mantel's captivating memoir, GIVING UP THE GHOST, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Published to coincide with their dramatisation on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. This sharp, funny collection of loosely autob...

From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems. The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven intercon...

Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha push at the boundaries of writt...

Katherine Mansfield's clear sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving resonant full of light and colour they range from short sharp studies to longer richer tales encompassing her three major volumes Bliss Th...

In , we encounter anonymous women from the margins ofUkrainian society, their lives upended by the ongoing conflict with Russia. Awoman, bewildered by her broken umbrella, tries to abandon it like a sick relative;a beautiful florist suddenly disappears, her shop converted into awarehouse for propaga...

The original vision of Grimms' tales in English for the first time. When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebr...

A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is...

First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story. Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace a...

I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctan...