https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SVL(SHORTSTORIES)&QRYTEXT=Short%20Stories&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=551565&CF=BIB A man treads water in the Swan River, hoping to bring his friend back to shore. Three siblings gaze skyward seeking a comet among the stars. A mother and daughter grapple with their fraught relationship and an inappropriate birthday cake. Bushfires sweep a Perth suburb while a woman, still burnt from a previous relationship, lessens the divide between an individual and their community. In Greater City Shadows, Laurie Steed shines a light on the tremendous complexity and beauty of everyday relationships. From unrequited first love and burnt flames of the past to early parenthood stresses and tense friendships. These short stories are vulnerable and tender a captivating collection reminding us that to be connected is to be human. A man treads water in the Swan River, hoping to bring his friend back to shore. Three siblings gaze skyward seeking a comet among the stars. A mother and daughter grapple with their fraught relationship and an inappropriate birthday cake. Bushfires sweep a Perth suburb while a woman, still burnt from a previous relationship, lessens the divide between an individual and their community. In Greater City Shadows, Laurie Steed shines a light on the tremendous complexity and beauty of everyday relationships. From unrequited first love and burnt flames of the past to early parenthood stresses and tense friendships. These short stories are vulnerable and tender a captivating collection reminding us that to be connected is to be human.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Steed, Laurie<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2024.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2024<br />212 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - STEE - Available - 010980940<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=552562&CF=BIB A stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place. In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take centre stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her. Centring native Hawaiian identity, and how it unfolds in the lives, mind and bodies of kanaka women, the stories in Kakimoto's debut collection are speculative and uncanny, exploring themes of queerness, colonization and desire. Both a fierce love letter to mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory simmering with tension, Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare takes seriously the superstitions born of the islands. Kakimoto's characters seek pleasure and purpose even in absurd circumstances, often with a surprising sense of humour, and her stories treat Hawai'i as so much more than a postcard from paradise. A stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place. In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take centre stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her. Centring native Hawaiian identity, and how it unfolds in the lives, mind and bodies of kanaka women, the stories in Kakimoto's debut collection are speculative and uncanny, exploring themes of queerness, colonization and desire. Both a fierce love letter to mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory simmering with tension, Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare takes seriously the superstitions born of the islands. Kakimoto's characters seek pleasure and purpose even in absurd circumstances, often with a surprising sense of humour, and her stories treat Hawai'i as so much more than a postcard from paradise.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Granta, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />261 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KAKI - Available - 010923756<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=552612&CF=BIB In Williams' stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In Williams' stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Williams, Diane, 1946-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />111 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - WILL - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010922575<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=529956&CF=BIB A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, featuring new and original stories. A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, featuring new and original stories.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Virago, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FURI - Available - 010925118<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - FURI - Available - 010925125<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=530141&CF=BIB A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love. A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Engel, Patricia<br />First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Avid Reader Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />200 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ENGE - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 010675983<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ENGE - Available - 010675969<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=530222&CF=BIB From swimming on Hampstead Heath to house-sitting with troublesome dogs, or illicit afternoon trysts in Soho to pedicures in Florence with recalcitrant teenagers, this collection of short stories includes some previously unpublished in book form, and covers the gamut of human nature - our foibles, our loves, our desires, hopes, ambitions and failures. From swimming on Hampstead Heath to house-sitting with troublesome dogs, or illicit afternoon trysts in Soho to pedicures in Florence with recalcitrant teenagers, this collection of short stories includes some previously unpublished in book form, and covers the gamut of human nature - our foibles, our loves, our desires, hopes, ambitions and failures.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Moggach, Deborah<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Tinder Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />xi, 336 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MOGG - Available - 010713487<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=530471&CF=BIB "Cat Brushing, the provocative first book of stories by Jane Campbell, vigorously explores the sensual worlds of thirteen older women, unearthing their passions, libidinal appetites, integrity, and sense of self as they fight against prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of the aging. Written in spikey, incisive prose, this alluring cast of characters overcomes the notion that elder women's behaviour must be in some way monitored and controlled. Jane Campbell's timeless wisdom and dark wit inspires and challenges, shocks and comforts as she examines the inner lives of women who fight to lead the rest of their lives on their own terms"--Provided by publisher. "Cat Brushing, the provocative first book of stories by Jane Campbell, vigorously explores the sensual worlds of thirteen older women, unearthing their passions, libidinal appetites, integrity, and sense of self as they fight against prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of the aging. Written in spikey, incisive prose, this alluring cast of characters overcomes the notion that elder women's behaviour must be in some way monitored and controlled. Jane Campbell's timeless wisdom and dark wit inspires and challenges, shocks and comforts as she examines the inner lives of women who fight to lead the rest of their lives on their own terms"--Provided by publisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Campbell, Jane, 1942-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : riverrun, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />279 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - CAMP - Available - 010700067<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=532345&CF=BIB A plane in the distance, artillery, his father waiting, and the boy wonders what to do. As with every story in this collection, the child born into a world he can't comprehend, but stands waiting for answers, overcome with possibilities. The Boy in Time charts this child's progress from the Outer Hebrides to a Mongolian desert, from war to kidnapping, a Midwestern American nightmare, falling from the wheel-well of a Dreamliner. Stephen Orr's impressionistic take on the short story captures a child's bewilderment of what it's like to be alive. A plane in the distance, artillery, his father waiting, and the boy wonders what to do. As with every story in this collection, the child born into a world he can't comprehend, but stands waiting for answers, overcome with possibilities. The Boy in Time charts this child's progress from the Outer Hebrides to a Mongolian desert, from war to kidnapping, a Midwestern American nightmare, falling from the wheel-well of a Dreamliner. Stephen Orr's impressionistic take on the short story captures a child's bewilderment of what it's like to be alive.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Orr, Stephen, 1967-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />178 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ORR - Available - 010688518<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=535188&CF=BIB Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping story, the pair crafted a novel that became an international bestseller and fell in love along the way. Now her latest manuscript is stuck, his solo novel has flopped, and their relationship is on the rocks. The situation is made even messier when an eager aspiring writer gets involved. Can Emily and Scott come together to produce another hit? "Creative Differences" is a wry and incisive study of partnerships -- in love, in writing -- and creativity. It's paired with a selection of stories from across his career, including the first appearance of Don Tillman. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping story, the pair crafted a novel that became an international bestseller and fell in love along the way. Now her latest manuscript is stuck, his solo novel has flopped, and their relationship is on the rocks. The situation is made even messier when an eager aspiring writer gets involved. Can Emily and Scott come together to produce another hit? "Creative Differences" is a wry and incisive study of partnerships -- in love, in writing -- and creativity. It's paired with a selection of stories from across his career, including the first appearance of Don Tillman.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Simsion, Graeme C.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Wurundjeri Country : Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />270 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SIMS - Available - 010690696<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SIMS - Available - 010690719<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SIMS - Available - 010690689<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SIMS - Onloan - Due: 19 May 2024 - 010690702<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=535336&CF=BIB The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love -- friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts -- in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime. The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender. In 'Bridesmaid, Revisited,' Marilee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In 'Twist and Shout,' Ericka's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In 'Turn Back, Turn Back,' a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in '561,' Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. From one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, Katherine Heiny has delivered a work of glorious humour and immense kindness. The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love -- friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts -- in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime. The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender. In 'Bridesmaid, Revisited,' Marilee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In 'Twist and Shout,' Ericka's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In 'Turn Back, Turn Back,' a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in '561,' Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. From one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, Katherine Heiny has delivered a work of glorious humour and immense kindness.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Heiny, Katherine<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : 4th Estate, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />218 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HEIN - Available - 010821458<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HEIN - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 010821403<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=536218&CF=BIB In twelve distinct but spiritually interwoven stories, we meet women at the crossroads of change. A woman's desire to nurture takes a surprising twist. A new mother learns about love in a pandemic. A visit to the tropics sparks questions of inheritance and legacy. These stories take the pulse of women's inner lives, exploring the pressure points that reveal our best and worst selves and the moments of reckoning that shape a future. Born for You asks: how do we love and care for another person when our world has tilted on its axis? In twelve distinct but spiritually interwoven stories, we meet women at the crossroads of change. A woman's desire to nurture takes a surprising twist. A new mother learns about love in a pandemic. A visit to the tropics sparks questions of inheritance and legacy. These stories take the pulse of women's inner lives, exploring the pressure points that reveal our best and worst selves and the moments of reckoning that shape a future. Born for You asks: how do we love and care for another person when our world has tilted on its axis?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McGuire, Magdalena<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Gadigal Country ; Ultimo, N.S.W. : Ultimo Press, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />256 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MACG - Available - 010700081<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MACG - Onloan - Due: 26 May 2024 - 010700074<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=536302&CF=BIB A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, featuring new and original stories. A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, featuring new and original stories.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Atwood, Margaret, 1939-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Virago, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATWO - Available - 010717416<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=539198&CF=BIB A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels-the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may-or may not-have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here--the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds. A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels-the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may-or may not-have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here--the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Atkinson, Kate<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Doubleday, [2023]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />vii, 223 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Average rating: </span><span style="vertical-align: middle;"><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /></span> (1 review)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2 reserves</span><br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATKI - Onloan - Due: 06 May 2024 - 010863830<br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATKI - Onloan - Due: 12 Jun 2024 - 010863823<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATKI - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 010863816<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATKI - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 010863861<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATKI - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 03 May 2024) - 010863847<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ATKI - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 010863854<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=539965&CF=BIB A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Keegan, Claire<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©1999<br />209 pages ; 20 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">11 reserves</span><br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010929987<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 010929970<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 010929963<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - KEEG - Onloan - Due: 19 May 2024 - 010929956<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=542350&CF=BIB A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings. An opera singer loses her voice. Sex releases memories. A lake monster captures a town's attention. Two young men take their vapes and big ambitions and go On The Road. New Australian Fiction showcases the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best. Now in its fifth year, these stories will move, entertain and enlighten you. A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings. An opera singer loses her voice. Sex releases memories. A lake monster captures a town's attention. Two young men take their vapes and big ambitions and go On The Road. New Australian Fiction showcases the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best. Now in its fifth year, these stories will move, entertain and enlighten you.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Fitzroy North, Victoria : Kill Your Darlings, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />xiii, 164 pages ; 20 cm.<br />Kill your darlings<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - NEWA - Available - 010855156<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=543040&CF=BIB A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men. With her trademark humour, energy, and flair, McKay offers hallucinogenic glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans. The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways, showing the world both as it is and as it could be. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men. With her trademark humour, energy, and flair, McKay offers hallucinogenic glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans. The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways, showing the world both as it is and as it could be.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McKay, Laura Jean<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />241 pages ; 21 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Average rating: </span><span style="vertical-align: middle;"><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://bayside.spydus.com/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /></span> (1 review)<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MACK - Available - 010965374<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MACK - Available - 010965367<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=543136&CF=BIB Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other's lives forever. Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from birth to death-as each of the seven stories explores how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down. A huge bestseller in Japan, this magical book is a joyous celebration of the wondrousness of cats and why we choose to share our lives with them. Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple needs teach an anxious father how to parent his own human baby; a colony of wild cats on a popular holiday island show a young boy not to stand in nature's way; a family is perplexed by their cat's undying devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father; a woman curses how her cat will not stop visiting her at night; and an elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be in each other's lives forever. Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from birth to death-as each of the seven stories explores how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down. A huge bestseller in Japan, this magical book is a joyous celebration of the wondrousness of cats and why we choose to share our lives with them.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Arikawa, Hiro, 1972-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Doubleday, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />243 pages ; 19 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ARIK - Available - 010961604<br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ARIK - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 010961635<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=543249&CF=BIB In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognise each other. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally rich, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognise each other. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally rich, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hadley, Tessa<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Jonathan Cape, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />226 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HADL - Onloan - Due: 27 May 2024 - 010944874<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HADL - Available - 010845553<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=544546&CF=BIB Emergence brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Now in its third year, the anthology features stories by thirty emerging writers, each speaking to the theme of 'Emergence' and each offering a unique snapshot of contemporary Australia. Emergence brings us thirty of the best short stories chosen from the thousands of entries in the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition. Now in its third year, the anthology features stories by thirty emerging writers, each speaking to the theme of 'Emergence' and each offering a unique snapshot of contemporary Australia.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Wurundjeri Country ; Richmond, VIC : Hardie Grant Books, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />233 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature - 828.4 EME - Available - 010836933<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=545823&CF=BIB A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories. This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanisation of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of Korea's vibrant short-story tradition. Here are peddlers and prostitutes travelling across snow-laden fields; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul; soldiers fighting for survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers, including Yi Sang, Hwang Sogyong, Yi Munyol and Pak Wanso, as well many brilliant contemporary voices, such as Han Yuju and Kim Yongha. Curated by Bruce Fulton, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle and delight. A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories. This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanisation of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of Korea's vibrant short-story tradition. Here are peddlers and prostitutes travelling across snow-laden fields; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul; soldiers fighting for survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers, including Yi Sang, Hwang Sogyong, Yi Munyol and Pak Wanso, as well many brilliant contemporary voices, such as Han Yuju and Kim Yongha. Curated by Bruce Fulton, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle and delight.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Penguin Books, 2023.<br />xxxvii, 456 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - PENG - Available - 010863793<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=545885&CF=BIB 'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?' In her English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and ancient, real and surreal, the stories in "Elsewhere" range from China to Dublin to London and Stockholm. From a group of writers lounging on the edge of a disaster zone to a mandarin ostracised from his old court trying to avoid assassination and from a woman who inexplicably loses her voice to a couple who meet all too fleetingly at a cinema in Dublin, these are strange and beguiling stories of dispossession, longing and the diasporic experience. 'How do you know this is all real and happening? How can you be sure you haven't already died in the earthquake and are just living in the afterlife?' In her English-language debut, Yan Ge explores isolation in nine iridescent, witty and wondrous tales. Both contemporary and ancient, real and surreal, the stories in "Elsewhere" range from China to Dublin to London and Stockholm. From a group of writers lounging on the edge of a disaster zone to a mandarin ostracised from his old court trying to avoid assassination and from a woman who inexplicably loses her voice to a couple who meet all too fleetingly at a cinema in Dublin, these are strange and beguiling stories of dispossession, longing and the diasporic experience.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Yan, Ge, 1984-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber, 2023.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />322 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - YAN - Available - 010859512<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=546684&CF=BIB "An anthology of short stories made up from the writers of The Bayside Writers' Group. Most or all of the stories are pure fiction but there are plenty of words in them that relate to actual events in the particular writer's life. It is a real pleasure to present them in this way."-- Provided by publisher. "An anthology of short stories made up from the writers of The Bayside Writers' Group. Most or all of the stories are pure fiction but there are plenty of words in them that relate to actual events in the particular writer's life. It is a real pleasure to present them in this way."-- Provided by publisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Australia : Ingram Spark, [2022]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SHOR - Available - 010771890<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=550129&CF=BIB A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese soprano has lost her voice and seeks repose on a sailing boat in Corsica. A South African advertising executive learns the ropes at his Accra office. Destructive lovers interview a renowned musician in dusty Bamako. In London, a Rome-based man happens upon a woman from the past, bringing back a passionate interlude he has hidden from himself. Lovers meet, fade, delude. We are weak and defiant beings, ever-learning, ever-lustful. A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese soprano has lost her voice and seeks repose on a sailing boat in Corsica. A South African advertising executive learns the ropes at his Accra office. Destructive lovers interview a renowned musician in dusty Bamako. In London, a Rome-based man happens upon a woman from the past, bringing back a passionate interlude he has hidden from himself. Lovers meet, fade, delude. We are weak and defiant beings, ever-learning, ever-lustful.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McNamara, Catherine<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Waratah, N.S.W. : Puncher and Wattmann, [2023]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2023<br />271 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - MACN - Available - 010928874<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=530224&CF=BIB "An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)! Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention--Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi. Highlights of this anthology include: Kafu Nagai's bittersweet portrait of a privileged family's expiring existence in "The Fox" Ango Sakaguchi's heartening celebration of postwar chaos in "One Woman and the War" Fumiko Hayashi's unabashed exploration of female sexuality in "Borneo Diamond" Junichi Watanabe's chilling assessment of alienation and social dislocation in "Invitation to Suicide" Gishu Nakayama's look at an out-of-place prostitute recovering at a hot-spring resort in "Autumn Wind" Through brilliant, highly-praised translations by Lane Dunlop, The Best Japanese Short Stories offers fascinating glimpses of a society embracing change while holding tenaciously onto the past. A new foreword by Alan Tansman provides insightful back stories about the authors and the literary backdrop against which they created these great works of modern world literature"-- Provided by publisher. "An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)! Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention--Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi. Highlights of this anthology include: Kafu Nagai's bittersweet portrait of a privileged family's expiring existence in "The Fox" Ango Sakaguchi's heartening celebration of postwar chaos in "One Woman and the War" Fumiko Hayashi's unabashed exploration of female sexuality in "Borneo Diamond" Junichi Watanabe's chilling assessment of alienation and social dislocation in "Invitation to Suicide" Gishu Nakayama's look at an out-of-place prostitute recovering at a hot-spring resort in "Autumn Wind" Through brilliant, highly-praised translations by Lane Dunlop, The Best Japanese Short Stories offers fascinating glimpses of a society embracing change while holding tenaciously onto the past. A new foreword by Alan Tansman provides insightful back stories about the authors and the literary backdrop against which they created these great works of modern world literature"-- Provided by publisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, [2022]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />224 pages ; 21cm<br /><br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BEST - Available - 010671893<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=496656&CF=BIB From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world. The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy. A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard, a lonely man finds an abandoned toddler, a second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion, a young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson's stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness. From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world. The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy. A divorced woman discovers a growing sinkhole in her yard, a lonely man finds an abandoned toddler, a second wife in a fundamentalist community questions her religion, a young Australian veteran of the Afghanistan conflict is haunted by a memory from his last mission. Fiona Robertson's stories traverse the globe to reveal people at moments of change or crisis, as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Robertson, Fiona<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />280 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ROBE - Available - 010467151<br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ROBE - Available - 010467168<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=496663&CF=BIB An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form. A man grows tired of his open-plan office and builds a fort made of stationery. A woman's euphoria at finally achieving Desktop Zero is quickly replaced with despair. A group of copywriters dream of being poets, and a disillusioned sales executive overthinks his think piece. In the mind-bendingly upside-down world of Sadvertising, iPhones have feelings, brands come to life, creative directors disappear into parallel universes and lowly freelancers become immortal. It's a world where gods, ghosts and muses stalk the corridors of bland and placeless offices, and the wondrous exists alongside the mundane. Short, punchy and direct, Ennis Cehic's satirical fables are box-fresh and shot through with pitch-black humour, existential dread and late capitalist yearning for meaning. They grapple with love and loneliness, art and commerce, dream and reality, and reflect the absurdity of the modern condition. Sadvertising is a surreal, subversive and utterly contemporary literary debut from an unforgettable new voice. An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form. A man grows tired of his open-plan office and builds a fort made of stationery. A woman's euphoria at finally achieving Desktop Zero is quickly replaced with despair. A group of copywriters dream of being poets, and a disillusioned sales executive overthinks his think piece. In the mind-bendingly upside-down world of Sadvertising, iPhones have feelings, brands come to life, creative directors disappear into parallel universes and lowly freelancers become immortal. It's a world where gods, ghosts and muses stalk the corridors of bland and placeless offices, and the wondrous exists alongside the mundane. Short, punchy and direct, Ennis Cehic's satirical fables are box-fresh and shot through with pitch-black humour, existential dread and late capitalist yearning for meaning. They grapple with love and loneliness, art and commerce, dream and reality, and reflect the absurdity of the modern condition. Sadvertising is a surreal, subversive and utterly contemporary literary debut from an unforgettable new voice.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Ćehić, Ennis<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[North Sydney, NSW] : Vintage Books Australia, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />296 pages ; 24 cm.<br /><br />Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - CEHI - Available - 010523123<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - CEHI - Available - 010523116<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=499684&CF=BIB "A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades"-- Provided by publisher. "A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades"-- Provided by publisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Ho, Jean Chen<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[New York] : Viking, [2022]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />275 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - HO - Available - 010480624<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=503452&CF=BIB In this diverse and ground-breaking collection there is something for everyone, from teenage experimentation to sex in the afterlife, from married couples pushing their boundaries to illicit encounters between strangers. Perhaps you will guess which story was written by your favourite author, perhaps you won't, but the excitement is in the journey. In this diverse and ground-breaking collection there is something for everyone, from teenage experimentation to sex in the afterlife, from married couples pushing their boundaries to illicit encounters between strangers. Perhaps you will guess which story was written by your favourite author, perhaps you won't, but the excitement is in the journey.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : The Borough Press, 2022.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />xiv, 351 pages ; 22 cm.<br /><br />Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - ANON - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - 010484004<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=503466&CF=BIB A motherless teenage girl, daughter of the town butcher, falls into a relationship with a much older boy, but realises she'd rather have the love of his dog. A directionless university student is taken up by beautiful, chaotic party girl Lara, who moves right into her bed and slowly destroys her life. An uneasy holiday in paradise for two reluctant stepsisters turns into a war of attrition as they compete for the affections of a charismatic interloper. Dragged along by their mums to a music festival, two teenage girls pursue experience over the course of one weekend. Strange and arresting, dirty but shining, the girls of Saba Sams's extraordinary debut collection traverse girlhood and womanhood in all its glorious complications. Negotiating absent mothers, intense friendships, wanting and fearing being desired, her characters are brought to life with striking wit, originality and tenderness. A motherless teenage girl, daughter of the town butcher, falls into a relationship with a much older boy, but realises she'd rather have the love of his dog. A directionless university student is taken up by beautiful, chaotic party girl Lara, who moves right into her bed and slowly destroys her life. An uneasy holiday in paradise for two reluctant stepsisters turns into a war of attrition as they compete for the affections of a charismatic interloper. Dragged along by their mums to a music festival, two teenage girls pursue experience over the course of one weekend. Strange and arresting, dirty but shining, the girls of Saba Sams's extraordinary debut collection traverse girlhood and womanhood in all its glorious complications. Negotiating absent mothers, intense friendships, wanting and fearing being desired, her characters are brought to life with striking wit, originality and tenderness.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Sams, Saba<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2021<br />210 pages ; 22 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SAMS - Available - 010467144<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - SAMS - Available - 010467137<br /> https://bayside.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=506902&CF=BIB "In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women--including one never-before-published novella--New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today's top crime writers"-- Provided by publisher. "In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women--including one never-before-published novella--New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today's top crime writers"-- Provided by publisher.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Lippman, Laura, 1959-<br />First edition.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2022<br />325 pages ; 22 cm.<br /><br />Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - LIPP - Available - 010466499<br />Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - Crime - LIPP - Available - 010466505<br />