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Aftermath: Stories of Survival in Aotearoa New Zealand

by Jacqui Greaves, Gary M. Nelson, Robinne Weiss, Hazel Bergen, Melanie Harding-Shaw, A. Zaykova, Erica Challis, Nicky Taylor, Deryn Pittar, Bing Turkby, Barbara Uini, Melissa Gunn, Trishia Hanifin, Jan Goldie, Miriam Hurst, Jennifer Rackham, Gary Venn, Paul Chapman, Scott Fack, Feby Idrus, Gregory Dally, C. D. Jacobs, Daniel Stride, Octavia Cade ...

Welcome to the End of the World...and more importantly, what comes after.Disasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on ... Read more

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Welcome to the End of the World...and more importantly, what comes after.Disasters have occurred around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on
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Te Kōrero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning

by Eileen Mueller, A. J. Ponder, Kevin Berry, Daniel Stride, Kevin G. Maclean, Robinne Weiss, Dan Rabarts, Sally McLennan, Piper Mejia, Paul Mannering, Jane Percival, Mouse Diver-Dudfield, I. K. Paterson-Harkness, Simon Petrie, Edwina Harvey, Darian Smith, Grant Stone, Gregory Dally, Mark English, Mike Reeves-McMillan, Sean Monaghan, Matt Cowens, Debbie Cowens, Alan Baxter ...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and ... Read more

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Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and
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The Space Between the Stars

On love, loss and the magical power of nature to heal

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A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts.Shortlisted for the ABIA Nonfiction Book of the Year'A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live.' David Wenham'For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year between each. Inseparable ... Read more

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A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts.Shortlisted for the ABIA Nonfiction Book of the Year'A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live.' David Wenham'For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year between each. Inseparable
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From the Neck Up and Other Stories

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“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington PostA short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners.The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the stra ... Read more

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“Feels like a major collection” – The Washington PostA short fiction collection to stand with Ted Chiang's Exhalation and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners.The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning author of The Beauty, Clarke Award nominee The Loosening Skin and The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley. In 16 stories Whiteley deftly unpeels the stra
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Best British Short Stories 2017

by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown, Krishan Coupland, Claire Dean, Niven Govinden, Françoise Harvey, Andrew Michael Hurley, Daisy Johnson, James Kelman, Giselle Leeb, Vesna Main, Courttia Newland, Eliot North, Irenosen Okojie, Laura Pocock, David Rose, Deirdre Shanahan, Sophie Wellstood, Lara Williams, Nicholas Royle ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering
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Chemical Valley

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Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction • A Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist • A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Siskiyou Prize Semi-Finalist • A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction Title of 2021Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.From refinery operators to long term care ... Read more

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Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction • A Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist • A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Siskiyou Prize Semi-Finalist • A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction Title of 2021Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.From refinery operators to long term care
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Escape

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by Bronwyn Mehan ...

All the best stories are but one story in reality−the story of escape. It is the only thing whichinterests us all and at all times, how to escape.A.C. BensonEscapist literature is traditionally the domain of well-loved genres. In Escape,we aim to disturb expectations, and to delight. Turn the page and here isexperimentation, here fantasy. Here’s crime, existentialism and romance. Nowan escape ... Read more

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All the best stories are but one story in reality−the story of escape. It is the only thing whichinterests us all and at all times, how to escape.A.C. BensonEscapist literature is traditionally the domain of well-loved genres. In Escape,we aim to disturb expectations, and to delight. Turn the page and here isexperimentation, here fantasy. Here’s crime, existentialism and romance. Nowan escape
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Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 3

by Marie Hodgkinson ...

The third volume in an annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of science fiction and fantasy writing in Aotearoa New Zealand.Table of Contents:New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel CottrellSynaesthete, by Melanie Harding-ShawKōhuia, by T Te TauDeath confetti, by Zoë MeagerFor Want of Human Parts, by Casey LucasHow To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster), by ... Read more

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The third volume in an annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of science fiction and fantasy writing in Aotearoa New Zealand.Table of Contents:New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel CottrellSynaesthete, by Melanie Harding-ShawKōhuia, by T Te TauDeath confetti, by Zoë MeagerFor Want of Human Parts, by Casey LucasHow To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster), by
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Best British Short Stories 2021

by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, A. J. Ashworth, Iphgenia Baal, Emma Bolland, Tom Bromley, Gary Budden, Jen Calleja, Robert Dewa, John Foxx, Josephine Galvin, Uschi Gatward, Meave Haughey, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Isha Karki, Yasmine Lever, Simon Okotie, Mel Pryor, Douglas Thompson, Matthew Turner ...

Series Book 11 - Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering
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Stories on the Four Winds

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by Brian Bargh ...

This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds. The authors are Patricia Grace, Albert Wendt, Alice Tawhai, Briar Grace-Smith, Paula Morris, Tina Makereti, ... Read more

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This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds. The authors are Patricia Grace, Albert Wendt, Alice Tawhai, Briar Grace-Smith, Paula Morris, Tina Makereti,
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Things I Did for Money

by Meg Mundell ...

‘Things I Did for Money is a collection of exciting and imaginative stories from one of our most innovative writers. This is a book for readers hungry for a highly original voice.’ — Tony BirchA man’s fury at his neighbour is reversed by strange nightmares. A young woman with a grudge finds a discarded weapon. A hunt for sunken treasure brings two scuba divers to the brink of tragedy.Drawing us ... Read more

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‘Things I Did for Money is a collection of exciting and imaginative stories from one of our most innovative writers. This is a book for readers hungry for a highly original voice.’ — Tony BirchA man’s fury at his neighbour is reversed by strange nightmares. A young woman with a grudge finds a discarded weapon. A hunt for sunken treasure brings two scuba divers to the brink of tragedy.Drawing us
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May break your bones

An Oxford Flash Fiction Prize anthology

by FJ Morris ...

Following on from Sticks and Stones, the May break your bones anthology is a collection of fifty powerful stories from all around the world. In under 1000 words, they have the power to transport you, to make you laugh, cry, and everything in between.AuthorsAbigail Williams, Adam Brannigan, Alison Wassell, Andy Kind, Anna Hopwood, Carey Camburn, C. Finity, Denise Bayes, Denny Jace, Donna L. ... Read more

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Following on from Sticks and Stones, the May break your bones anthology is a collection of fifty powerful stories from all around the world. In under 1000 words, they have the power to transport you, to make you laugh, cry, and everything in between.AuthorsAbigail Williams, Adam Brannigan, Alison Wassell, Andy Kind, Anna Hopwood, Carey Camburn, C. Finity, Denise Bayes, Denny Jace, Donna L.
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