Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
The debut collection of personal essays by comedy's most iconic voice Ziwe made a name for herself by asking guests like Alyssa Milano, Fran Lebowitz, and Chet Hanks direct questions. In Black Friend, she turns her incisive perspective on both herself and the culture at large. Throughout the book, ...Show more
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...Show more
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard Wells et al
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
These twenty-two stories take the reader into the isolated and untamed wilderness of unholy rights, witches' curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors--with beautiful illustrationsThey stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and o ...Show more
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa, they celebrate the author’s own hybridity with breathtaking sensuousness and lyricism.Simbiyu wins a sc ...Show more
Dreams Vintage Minis by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the writings of Sigmund Freud. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty by Sarah Firth
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, Eventually Everything Connects is a work of graphic non-fiction that is comforting, confronting and mind-expanding in equal measure. WTF is going on? How can I find joy in these precarious times? Is my s ...Show more
Extenuating Circumstances by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
A collection of twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, 'America's preeminent fiction writer' (New Yorker) Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest ...Show more
Life Lessons from Literature by Joseph Piercy
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed’ ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel The New Life. But what can we learn from reading books? Life Lessons from Literature poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history. In it, we can draw ...Show more
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2023 by Suzy Garcia (Editor)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best.
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Short Stories by the Winner of the EU Prize for Literature by Jan Carson
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Category: Short Stories & Essays
The dazzling new collection from the multi-award-winning author of The Raptures; bold, tender, surprising stories of youth and innocence, age and experience - and all the spaces in between. 'Jan Carson is a born storyteller- her work is so imaginative, whimsical, mischievous and brave, but tender and c ...Show more