Download or read book The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories written by Michael Wilding and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book New Australian Fiction 2021 written by Rebecca Starford and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a riveting, thoughtful collection. These beautiful stories will transport you to other worlds.' - Mirandi Riwoe A son becomes enthralled in his father's quest for treasure. A young woman is blamed for an unfathomable act. Teenagers break into an airfield. Strangers meet in the night. The world is thrown into chaos when people spontaneously combust. New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity ofAustralian short fiction at its best. These stories will move, entertain and enlighten you. '...the anthology contains something for everyone to relish, to learn from and to be dazzled by. All 16 stories in this collection teem with sharp prose, writing that fosters intrigue and elicits empathy, deftly inviting the reader to step into vivid snapshots of moments in the narrators' lives. New Australian Fiction 2021 is a versatile and immersive collection that promises to delight all lovers of fiction.' - Shivani Prabhu, Books+Publishing Praise for previous editions: 'At a clutch moment in Australian publishing, the volume certainly has its finger on the pulse.' - The Age, Pick of the Week 'Nuanced, captivating and accomplished. Australian short fiction is indeed alive and well.' - Maxine Beneba Clark

Download or read book The Best Australian Stories written by ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Download or read book The Best Australian Stories 2017 written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Australian Literature written by Phyllis Fahrie Edelson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1993-03-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from major voices in Australian literature encompassing short stories, memoirs, novels, and aboriginal writings.

Download or read book Classic Australian Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Australian Fiction 2019 written by Rebecca Starford and published by Kill Your Darlings. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childless couple find an abandoned baby on the beach. A father is prosecuted by his small-town community. Two men on the coast share an unspoken love. A young woman has a threatening first date. A writer is terrorised by the ghosts of his fiction. City folk visit a room for crying. 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. These stories will move, entertain and enlighten you. Featuring: Tony Birch • Zoë Bradley • Mikaella Clements • Craig Cormick • Laura Elvery • Andrea Gillum • Anne Hotta • Joshua Kemp • Jack Kirne • Julie Koh • Wayne Marshall • Chloe Michele • A.S. Patrić • Allee Richards • Melanie Saward • Gretchen Shirm • Khalid Warsame • Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Download or read book Australian Short Fiction written by Bruce Bennett and published by St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first extended study of Australian short fiction, Bruce Bennett adopts Christina Stead's metaphor of an ocean of story to suggest the universality of story-telling and the marks it leaves for posterity. Bennett's study stresses the range and depth of the short prose narrative in Australia.

Download or read book Where There s Smoke written by Black Inc. and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where There’s Smoke presents outstanding short fiction by Australia’s finest male writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. A man sleeps at the site of a massacre and wakes refreshed. An unassuming piano tuner is sent off to contribute to the war effort. A woman with Alzheimer’s is dragged along by her interfering son to visit Uluru. Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave you reeling in ways that only a great short story can. D.B.C. Pierre * Nam Le * Rodney Hall * J.M. Coetzee * A.S. Patric * Murray Bail * Tony Birch * David Malouf * Shane Maloney * Tim Winton * Patrick Cullen * Alex Miller * Kim Scott * Liam Davison * Frank Moorhouse * Ryan O’Neill * James Bradley * Patrick Holland * Peter Goldsworthy * Chris Womersley

Download or read book Australian Short Story written by Laurie Hergenhan and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Lawson · Barbara Baynton ·Henry Handel Richardson · Katharine Susannah Prichard · Christina Stead ·Gavin Casey ·Vance Palmer · Alan Marshall · Marjorie Barnard ·Judah Waten · John Morrison · Peter Cowan · Hal Porter · Patrick White · Thelma Forshaw ·Dal Stivens · Peter Carey Murray Bail · Frank Moorhouse · T.A.G. Hungerford · Elizabeth Jolley · Michael Wilding · Olga Masters · Beverley Farmer · Fay Zwicky · Barry Hill · Gerald Murnane · Archie Weller · Thea Astley · Helen Garner · Lily Brett · Susan Hampton · Gail Jones In this bestselling collection the Australian short story is represented from its Bulletin beginnings to its vigorous revival in the late twentieth century.

Download or read book Australia Day written by Melanie Cheng and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards ‘Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.’ Christos Tsiolkas Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes abut are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim. What they have in common—no matter where they come from—is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories explore universal themes of love, loss, family and identity, while at the same time asking crucial questions about the possibility of human connection in a globalised world. Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. She was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. Her debut collection of short stories, Australia Day, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016 and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2018. Room for a Stranger is her first novel. ‘A stunning debut that takes its place among Australian short story greats.’ AU Review ‘The book bears witness to the author’s empathetic eye, multicultural characterisation and easy facility with dialogue...This short story collection explores what it means to belong, to be Australian; its insight from different vantage points and its photo-realistic narrative make it an exciting and impressive debut.’ Judges’ Report, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2018 ‘All of her characters—a diverse cast of difference races and faiths—are searching for connection or a sense of belonging, and coming up short. Despite its title the focus of this collection is not explicitly on that increasingly controversial public holiday. Rather, it is on the struggles, internal and external, that occur when people from different backgrounds meet by chance or are brought together...Australia Day is a bittersweet, beautifully crafted collection that will be much admired by fans of Cate Kennedy and Tony Birch.’ Books+Publishing ‘Melanie Cheng’s voice is strong, compassionate and embracing in these 14 stories that reflect the diversity of Australians and the starkness of human frailty. The recurring theme in all these stories is the ability to re-form lives that, at first, might seem to be shattered beyond repair.’ Good Reading, FOUR STARS ‘The different cultures, the intriguing characters all left me wanting more. I’d love to see some longer fiction from Melanie Cheng in the future but I’ll happily accept anything and everything she writes. A fantastic talent who has nailed the art of the short story.’ Sam Still Reading ‘What a wonderful book, a book with bite. These stories have a real edge to them. They are complex without being contrived, humanising, but never sentimental or cloying—and, ultimately, very moving.’ Alice Pung ‘In each story, Melanie Cheng creates an entire microcosm, peeling back the superficial to expose the raw nerves of contemporary Australian society. Her eye is sharp and sympathetic, her characters flawed and funny and utterly believable.’ Jennifer Down ‘Melanie Cheng’s stories are a deep dive into the diversity of humanity. They lead you into lives, into hearts, into unexplored places, and bring you back transformed.’ Michelle Wright ‘The characters stay in the mind, their lives and experiences mirroring many of our own, challenging us to think how we might respond in their place. An insightful, sometimes uncomfortable portrayal of multicultural Australia from an observant and talented writer.’ Ranjana Srivastava ‘A bittersweet, beautifully crafted collection.’ Books+Publishing ‘Australia Day is an absorbing panorama of contemporary Australia...These are 14 powerfully perceptive stories, written with love, humour, realism, and a distinct edginess. While the terrain covered might be familiar, Cheng’s take on our treasured multiculturalism feels fresh... It’s necessary reading, not only because it’s a microcosm of who we are, but because each story is a gem, and a joy to behold.’ Simon McDonald ‘If only the PM might pick up a copy, even by mistake.’ Saturday Paper ‘A wonderful feat of storytelling...Melanie Cheng is an exciting new writer.’ Readings ‘A sumptuous collection of fourteen short stories, which are disparate but with modern Australia or Australians at their heart, exploring issues of racism, infidelity, grief, parenthood, children and ageing...they are heartfelt and Melbourne-based Cheng paints the characters beautifully.’ Herald Sun ‘A panorama of contemporary multicultural Australia that explores each and everyone’s desire to belong.’ Book Bonding ‘A diverse, captivating collection of short stories.’ Better Read Than Dead ‘The happy surprise of Cheng’s work as a collection lies in her resolute grasp of the absolute normalcy of a culture that not so many years ago was divided and dually suspicious. The census gives us the facts but it takes fiction to make reality three-dimensional.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘The author’s empathetic eye and easy facility with dialogue make the anthology a strong debut, with the longer stories in particular offering breadth and depth...It feels like Cheng has taken a wide sample from the census to craft this inclusive portrait of contemporary Australia.’ Big Issue‘Cheng’s work is polished and affecting. Australia Day is that thing we all chase: a complex, engaging and timely read.’ Lifted Brow ‘Cheng paints a holistic snapshot of Australian life, with the result being a collection of stories that are simultaneously cynical and hopeful...The ambiguity inherent in labelling something “Australian" is also manifest in Cheng’s characters, prompting the reader to interrogate their own definition of what it means to be Australian.’ Kill Your Darlings ‘Melanie Cheng writes prose that gets straight to the heart of the matter and tells it how it is...The more I sit here and reflect on each story in this collection, the stronger and more powerful they become.’ Sam Still Reading ‘Wonderful.’ Christos Tsiolkas, Sydney Morning Herald’s Year in Reading ‘Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day brought this prodigal reader of short fiction back into the fold. And what better return than through Cheng’s creation of illuminated characters of colour—young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Muslim, Chinese...Cheng’s Australia Day explores the density and difficulty inherent in being culturally and physically different and serves to remind me that when our six families of adopted children from China gather in Queenscliffe on Australia Day each year, raising two flags on the pole instead of one that we, like all of Cheng’s characters, are restoring belonging from our individual and collective loss.’ Wheeler Centre, 2017 Favourites ‘This smart, engaging short story collection offers fresh perspectives on what it means to be Australian today. The stories also explore identity and belonging in a variety of other ways, delving into family, love, class and education. Big themes aside, every story is beautifully written and a total pleasure to read.’ Emily Maguire, Australian Women’s Weekly ‘The stories are unpretentious, diverse, and a lot of the time, disconcertingly real. Cheng’s characters are just as well realised; they live on in your head long after you’ve put her book down.’ Lifted Brow, Favourite Books of 2017 ‘Offering a fresh viewpoint on modern Australia, debut author Cheng is a significant new voice on the literary scene.’ PS News '[Cheng’s] individual characters suggest the ways in which we might move forward...Australia Day imagines a tomorrow where we can love our communities, our celebrations and our food, without leaving behind critical good taste.’ Sydney Review of Books

Download or read book Best Australian Short Stories written by Douglas Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Best of the Best written by Barry Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Best Australian Stories 2011 written by Cate Kennedy and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.

Download or read book Journeys written by Barry Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Australan Short Stories.

Download or read book The Best Australian Stories 2016 written by Charlotte Wood and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Families written by Barry Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorable short stories by Cate Kennedy, Tim Winton, David Malouf and many more of Australia's best contemporary writers. Bonding, battling, breaking, the stories in this engrossing collection shed high and lowlights on families from every angle. Heroic mothers, estranged fathers, resentful siblings, children losing their innocence - even a family ghost or two. Some of Australia's finest writers - and some who should be better known - explore the whole range of family life, from the happy to the hopeless, in stories that Barry Oakley has collected with one criterion only: vitality.