Short Stories

Shooting the Fox

by Marion Halligan

On love and loss, sex and death, food and gardening ... a new collection by Australia's most assured short-story writer.

Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain

by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what...

The Early Stories: 1953-1975

PEN/Faulkner 2004

by John Updike

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it...

Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies

by Nick Fonda & Denis Palmer

Who has never encountered a bully? Who has never told—or been told—a story of a bully? With an uncanny insight into what bullies are all about, Nick Fonda brings sensitivity and even humour to an otherwise...

Nothing Like an Ocean

by Jim Tomlinson

The eleven stories in Nothing Like An Ocean confirm the promise of Jim Tomlinson's award-winning debut, Things Kept, Things Left Behind. Set in and around the fictional town of Spivey, Kentucky, the stories...

A Lovesong for India: Tales from the East and West

by Ruth Jhabvala

In this expansive story collection, acclaimed writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala continues her lifelong meditation on East and West. Set in India, England, and New York City, A Lovesong for India reveals what unites...

T.C. Boyle Stories

by T.C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range,...

The Fig Tree

by Arnold Zable

The Fig Tree is a tender book of true stories about family, about journeys, about home. Zable writes with wonderful feeling about the Greek villagers who made the long journey to and from Australia, about those...

Liver

by Will Self

Will Self's remarkable new stories center on the disease and decay that target the largest of human organs: the liver. Set in locales as toxic as a London drinking club and mundane as a clinic in an ultraorderly...

The Undivided Self

by Will Self

Since the release of his first story collection in 1991, Will Self has been hailed as a master of the short story. Now, for the first time, selected stories from his five highly praised collections will be available...

Apricot Jam: And Other Stories

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories— interconnected and juxtaposed using...

A Stranger With a Bag

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

This, arguably Sylvia Townsend Warner’s most luminous collection of stories, was first published in 1966 and includes ‘A Love Match’, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as ‘a supreme example of her technique.’...

Fake House: Stories

by Linh Dinh

Fake House, the first collection of short stories by poet Linh Dinh, explores the weird, atrocious, fond, and ongoing intimacies between Vietnam and the United States.

Linked by a complicated past, the characters...

Riverbank Tweed and Roadmap Jenkins: Tales from the Caddie Yard

by Bo Links

For nearly as long as there have been golfers, there have been men walking alongside them, carrying their clubs, holding the flagstick, offering advice, smelling not so faintly of old sweat and very new wine....