Tag: Short Stories

Bug Week And Other Stories – Airini Beautrais

Read for NZ Book Awards From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week is a collection of short stories that traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque fragments of people’s lives. There are bug collectors, necrophiliacs, an albatross at an open mic night,… Continue Reading “Bug Week And Other Stories – Airini Beautrais”

In A German Pension – Katherine Mansfield

READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel A young woman observes the absurd and grotesque while staying in a German pension.  ✔ “In A German Pension was Mansfield’s first short story collection, written when she was 22. The stories are semi-autobiographical because Mansfield herself was… Continue Reading “In A German Pension – Katherine Mansfield”