Dream Stuff: Stories

Author	Tobias Wolff
ISBN	0802136680

This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily...

Author	Mira Grant
ISBN	0316379409

Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.

Now, a new crew has been assembled. But...

Author

William Maxwell

My heart was sliced to ribbons by this story. The narrator, an elderly man whose boyhood was scarred by a horrendous event, attempts to make sense of it all – and to make amends, as he tells it – 50 years down the road during the course of writing his memoirs.

In his memoirs, he talks about his...

Author	Chloe Hooper
ISBN	1416561595

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured....

Author	Henry Lawson
ISBN	0140092153

Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed.

In this selection John Barnes reveals Lawson not only as a writer who has delighted past generations.

His short stories, some humourous, some wry, some moving are, above all, enjoyable.

Stories...