Best Australian Stories 2008, Delia Falconer (ed.), The Paperback Bookshop, Melbourne, Australia

Featuring established masters as well as fresh new voices, this is a perfect book for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing. By turns global and domestic, subversively funny and wrenchingly sad, Falconer's criteria for selection were that the stories be surprising and moving and they are. Contributors include Nam Le, Anna Krien, Robert Drewe, Emily Ballou, Nicholas Shakespeare, Bernard Cohen, Deborah Robertson, Frank Moorhouse, Tony Birch, Marion Halligan, Will Elliott and more. Featuring established masters as well as fresh new voices, this is a perfect book for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary writing. By turns global and domestic, subversively funny and wrenchingly sad, Falconer's criteria for selection were that the stories be surprising and moving and they are. Contributors include Nam Le, Anna Krien, Robert Drewe, Emily Ballou, Nicholas Shakespeare, Bernard Cohen, Deborah Robertson, Frank Moorhouse, Tony Birch, Marion Halligan, Will Elliott and more.