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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket - Stories (Paperback): Hilma Wolitzer Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket - Stories (Paperback)
Hilma Wolitzer
R300 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A TIME 'New Books You Should Read' A People magazine 'Book of the Week' A New York Times Editors' Choice With a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a wonderful collection of stories' Lauren Groff Another day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and beautiful way. But of course it wouldn't; everyone knows that. In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered chainmail, Wolitzer captures the tensions, contradictions and unexpected detours of daily life with wit, candour and an acutely observant eye. Including stories first published in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s - alongside new writing from Wolitzer, now in her nineties - Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket reintroduces a beloved writer to be embraced by a new generation of readers. 'A fascinating time capsule of womanhood, marriage and motherhood over the last century ... A fabulous book' Emma Straub 'Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny ... Breathtaking' Elizabeth Strout, from the foreword

Property - A Collection (Paperback): Lionel Shriver Property - A Collection (Paperback)
Lionel Shriver 1
R319 R213 Discovery Miles 2 130 Save R106 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver 'Genius' Stylist 'Phenomenal' Observer 'Brilliant' The Times In her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age's most enduring obsessions: property. A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for her best friend; a thirty-something son refuses to leave home; a middle-aged man subjugated by service to his elderly father discovers that the last place you should finally assert yourself is airport security. This landmark publication explores the idea of "property" in both senses of the word: real estate, and stuff. Immensely readable, it showcases the biting insight that has made Lionel Shriver one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (Paperback): Ken Liu The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (Paperback)
Ken Liu; Narrated by Helen Vine
R284 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R49 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of blockchain cryptography ("Byzantine Empathy") and Internet trolling ("Thoughts and Prayers") to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial intelligence and the singularity ("The Gods Will Not Be Chained", "The Gods Will Not Be Slain" and "The Gods Have Not Died In Vain"), here are 17 interlinking visions that explore what it is to be human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend that. This collection confirms Ken Liu, author of the astonishing and multi-award winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, as one of speculative fiction's greatest short story writers. Contents include: Ghost Days, Maxwell's Demon,The Reborn, Thoughts and Prayers, Byzantine Empathy, The Gods Will Not Be Chained, Staying Behind, Real Artists, The Gods Will Not Be Slain, Altogether Elsewhere Vast Herds of Reindeer, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain, Memories of My Mother, Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard, A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty), The Hidden Girl, Seven Birthdays, The Message, Cutting.

Adventures in Nature - Stories, Activities and Inspiration for all the Family (Hardcover): Dawn Nelson Adventures in Nature - Stories, Activities and Inspiration for all the Family (Hardcover)
Dawn Nelson
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through a mixture of original stories and traditional tales, Adventures in Nature offers an abundance of ways for families to connect with the earth. As our ancestors did before us, the book follows the seasons contained in the 'Wheel Of The Year', with each entry focusing on a story that brings us closer to the natural world, accompanied by simple craft projects, activities and mindful moments. In our busy, modern lives we have become increasingly disconnected from the world around us, and stories are an age-old way of re-establishing that link, nurturing a love for the environment and embedding awareness and respect for the planet within our culture. This book allows you to discover your very own adventures in nature through story.

The House on Mango Street (Paperback, New edition): Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street (Paperback, New edition)
Sandra Cisneros
R296 R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Save R58 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage … and seduces with precise spare  prose, creating unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer but an absolutely essential one’
New York Times Book Review

Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, The House on Mango Street is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.  For Esperanza, Mango Street is a desolate landscape of concrete and run-down tenements where she discovers the hard realities of life - the fetters of class and gender, the spectre of racial enmity and the mysteries of sexuality.  Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, Esperanza is able to rise above hopelessness and create for herself 'a house all of my own quiet as snow, a space for myself to go' in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.

Friendship for Grown-Ups (Pamphlet): Nao-Cola Yamazaki Friendship for Grown-Ups (Pamphlet)
Nao-Cola Yamazaki; Translated by Polly Barton
R208 R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Save R39 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (Paperback): Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine King, Claire North, E. J. Swift,... Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (Paperback)
Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine King, Claire North, E. J. Swift, …
R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An enthralling collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; tormenting us, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places. There is no part of the world that does not know them. They are the Djinn. With stories from Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine Faris King, Claire North, E.J. Swift, Hermes (trans. Robin Moger), Jamal Mahjoub, James Smythe, J.Y. Yang, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Logan, K.J. Parker, Kuzhali Manickavel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Monica Byrne, Saad Hossain, Sami Shah, Sophia Al-Maria and Usman Malik.

Collected Stories (Paperback): Saul Bellow Collected Stories (Paperback)
Saul Bellow; Edited by Janis Bellow; Preface by Janis Bellow; Introduction by James Wood 1
R614 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R102 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fiction
Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest writers. For more than sixty years he stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Here, collected in one volume and chosen by the author himself, are favorites such as "What Kind of Day Did You Have?," "Leaving the Yellow House," and a previously uncollected piece, "By the St. Lawrence." With his larger-than-life characters, irony, wisdom, and unique humor, Bellow presents a sharp, rich, and funny world that is infinitely surprising. This is a collection to treasure for longtime Saul Bellow fans and an excellent introduction for new readers.

The Wrong Heaven (Paperback): Amy Bonnaffons The Wrong Heaven (Paperback)
Amy Bonnaffons 1
R415 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Caped Fear - Superhuman Horror Stories (Paperback): Christopher Sequiera, Steve Proposch, Bryce Stevens Caped Fear - Superhuman Horror Stories (Paperback)
Christopher Sequiera, Steve Proposch, Bryce Stevens
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Out of stock
The Truth Has Arms and Legs (Paperback): Alice Fowler The Truth Has Arms and Legs (Paperback)
Alice Fowler
R303 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
St.Christopher on Pluto (Paperback): Nancy McKinley St.Christopher on Pluto (Paperback)
Nancy McKinley
R506 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, the women went to Catholic school together and collaborated on racy letters to a soldier in Vietnam who thought they were much older than seventh graders - a ruse that typifies later shenanigans, usually brought on by red-headed Colleen, a self-proclaimed 'Celtic Warrior'. After ditching Colleen's car to collect the insurance, they drive from one unexpected event to the next in Big Blue, MK's Buick clunker with a St. Christopher statue glued to the dash. The glow-in-the-dark icon guides them past the farm debris, mine ruins, and fracking waste of the northern brow of Appalachia. Yet their world is not a dystopia. Rather, MK and Colleen show why, amid all the desperation, there is still a community of hope, filled with people looking for their neighbours and with survivors who offer joy, laughter and good will.

Mariko/Mariquita (Pamphlet): Natsuki Ikezawa Mariko/Mariquita (Pamphlet)
Natsuki Ikezawa; Translated by Alfred Birnbaum
R209 R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Save R40 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions (Hardcover): C.J. Lim, E.D. Liu Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions (Hardcover)
C.J. Lim, E.D. Liu
R5,091 Discovery Miles 50 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages with short stories. The stories have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum but are collected for the first time in a single volume, laid out as they were designed to be seen as one phantasmogoric city vision. Painstakingly constructed, the stories assemble a sequence of improbable marriages between architecture and story, encompassing a retelling of the Three Little Pigs at Smithfield, a dating agency at Battersea, and a ringed transport system manifesting as a celestial river over the great metropolis. Drawing on a wealth of literary symbolism from Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and imbued with humour and irony, the book builds on London's rich mix of extravagance and fictive tradition. Enthralling, inspirational and entertaining, this cabinet of curiosity and wonder depicts a vision of the city that is immoral, anarchic, and unscientific, and at the same time, glorious, ravishing and a pleasure to behold.

The Map (Paperback): Barbara Sadurska The Map (Paperback)
Barbara Sadurska
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Seven stories connected by a fifteenth-century map of the world. Once upon a time, maps used to exhibit the boundaries of the known world. They soothed our fears, and simultaneously ignited our imagination, uncharted territory beckoning us from afar. Barbara Sadurskas The Map -- belligerent and refreshing in tone, narratively picaresque and nostalgic, structurally non-linear and precisely framed -- does not attempt to cover hackneyed ground. It goes much further. In entertaining, it instructs. In instructing, it terrifies. It illuminates the fact that man knows as little about himself as the first cartographers knew about the world.

All Fires the Fire (Paperback, UK ed.): Julio Cortazar All Fires the Fire (Paperback, UK ed.)
Julio Cortazar
R302 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R33 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Something Strange, Like Hunger - Short Stories (Paperback): Malika Moustadraf Something Strange, Like Hunger - Short Stories (Paperback)
Malika Moustadraf; Translated by Alice Guthrie
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf's collected short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. Here, we tune into Casablanca's unheard: a sex worker struggling to keep warm on the streets; a housewife flirting with strangers online; a kidney patient, priced-out of treatment, facing the harsh reality of his condition; and a mother scheming to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test. Something Strange, Like Hunger is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power, and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco's preeminent writers.

Roar (Paperback): Cecelia Ahern Roar (Paperback)
Cecelia Ahern
R425 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brief Lives (Hardcover): Christopher Meredith Brief Lives (Hardcover)
Christopher Meredith
R312 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Paperback): Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Paperback)
Robert Louis Stevenson 1
R195 R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Save R39 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality and obscure science, with its chilling final revelation, became an instant horror classic when it was first published in 1886, and has enthralled and terrified generations of readers ever since. This volume also contains seven other Gothic stories by Stevenson - such as `The Body Snatchers', `Markheim' and `Olalla' - showcasing the author's mastery of the horror genre and his interest in both the otherworldly and the strange ways the human brain can distort reality.

Fools and Wise Men - Folk Tales of Wisdom (Hardcover): Mike O'Connor Fools and Wise Men - Folk Tales of Wisdom (Hardcover)
Mike O'Connor
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Before schooling was widely available, for most people the classroom was at the fireside, the field and the country lane, where the bards told their tales. Many such folk tales exist to convey life-lessons in an entertaining way. These stories are not the pontifications of ancient philosophers: they are the gleanings of countless storytellers, everyday men and women with hard-won life experiences and pockets full of folklore. The tales reflect the times and places of their origin, but have been handed down from generation to generation, evolving to meet changing times. Some are amusing; some are thought-provoking; all have been polished and honed for so long that their message slips, almost imperceptibly, into the mind. Fools and Wise Men retells these stories for new generations - repaying our debts to the bards of old.

The Grass is Singing (Paperback, Epub Edition): Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing (Paperback, Epub Edition)
Doris Lessing 1
R271 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R71 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding. A masterpiece of realism, 'The Grass is Singing' is a superb evocation of Africa's majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most of all, a fearless exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.

Hits and Misses - Stories (Paperback): Simon Rich Hits and Misses - Stories (Paperback)
Simon Rich
R410 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R72 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars. Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" (Daily Beast) -- a humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (New York Times Book Review), James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian). With Hits and Misses, he's back with a hilarious new collection of stories about dreaming big and falling flat, about ordinary people desperate for stardom and the stars who are bored by having it all. Inspired by Rich's real experiences in Hollywood, Hits and Misses chronicles all the absurdity of fame and success alongside the heartbreaking humanity of failure. From a bitter tell-all by the horse Paul Revere rode to greatness to a gushing magazine profile of everyone's favorite World War II dictator, these stories roam across time and space to skewer our obsession with making it big -- from the days of ancient Babylon to the age of TMZ.

Kong's Garden (Pamphlet): Hwang Jung-Eun Kong's Garden (Pamphlet)
Hwang Jung-Eun; Translated by Jeon Seung-Hee
R208 R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Save R39 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
I'd Die for You - And Other Lost Stories (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald I'd Die for You - And Other Lost Stories (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edited by Anne-Margaret Daniel
R471 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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