Author: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...
The Best Australian Stories
Author: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459624874
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The best of the best This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcas...
The Best Australian Stories 2017
Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1925435903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling. Previous contributors include Kate Grenville, Tony Birch, David Malouf, Kirsten Tranter, Anna Krien, Georgia Blain, Peter Goldsworthy, Fiona McFarlane, Elizabeth Harrower, Ryan O’Neill and Romy Ash. Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. In 2015 her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Best Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her critically acclaimed memoir, The Hate Race (2016), was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Stella Prize. She is also the author of a picture book, The Patchwork Bike (2016), several poetry collections, and is a contributor to the Saturday Paper.
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1925435903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling. Previous contributors include Kate Grenville, Tony Birch, David Malouf, Kirsten Tranter, Anna Krien, Georgia Blain, Peter Goldsworthy, Fiona McFarlane, Elizabeth Harrower, Ryan O’Neill and Romy Ash. Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. In 2015 her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Best Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her critically acclaimed memoir, The Hate Race (2016), was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Stella Prize. She is also the author of a picture book, The Patchwork Bike (2016), several poetry collections, and is a contributor to the Saturday Paper.
The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories
Author: Michael Wilding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
49 stories ranging over 120 years. Stories reflect life in Australia from the early days of hardship to the recognition of a multicultural society and the new agendas for women's, gay and lesbian, and Aboriginal writing.
The Best Australian Stories 2011
Author: Cate Kennedy
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1921870443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1921870443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.
Best Australian Short Stories
Author: Douglas Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855500528
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855500528
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Wombat Stew
Author: Marcia Kay Vaughan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743622575
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781743622575
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In this classic Australian picture book, a dingo catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan to save their friend. They trick the dingo into using mud, feathers, flies, bugs and gumnuts in his wombat stew, and the result is a stew the dingo will never forget!
Best of the Best
Author: Barry Oakley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742117454
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the six story collections Barry Oakley has put together for The Five Mile Press, he's now picked the best - the best of the best! This rich final collection explores the full range of experience - from innocence to awareness, passion to peace, desperation to determination (and at least one quiet triumph). There are twenty-five different worlds between these covers, and their authors will take you on a journey into all of them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781742117454
Category : Short stories, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the six story collections Barry Oakley has put together for The Five Mile Press, he's now picked the best - the best of the best! This rich final collection explores the full range of experience - from innocence to awareness, passion to peace, desperation to determination (and at least one quiet triumph). There are twenty-five different worlds between these covers, and their authors will take you on a journey into all of them.
The Best Australian Bush Stories
Author: Jim Haynes
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743314396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond . an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1743314396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Stories that take us from the Mallee to the back of Bourke and beyond . an indispensable collection about the enduring appeal of the Australian bush.
The Best Australian Stories 2016
Author: Charlotte Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863958868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This anthology brings together Australia's most striking literary talents and provides a platform for those unpublished gems. This year Stella Prize-winning author Charlotte Wood takes the helm, putting together yet another enchanting collection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781863958868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This anthology brings together Australia's most striking literary talents and provides a platform for those unpublished gems. This year Stella Prize-winning author Charlotte Wood takes the helm, putting together yet another enchanting collection.
Best Australian Short Stories
Author: Beatrice Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140124668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140124668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description