Nicholas Royle

Biographical note:  Nicholas Royle was born in Manchester in 1963. He is the author of five novels: Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart and The Director’s Cut, and a short story collection, Mortality. He has edited thirteen anthologies including A Book of Two Halves and Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing. He lives in Manchester with his wife and two children and teaches creative writing at MMU.

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EAN13:  9781907773181
ISBN:  9781907773181
Author:  Nicholas Royle
Title:  The Best British Short Stories 2012
Series:  Anthologies
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  FA
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  15-Apr-12
Extent:  240pp
Height:  198 mm
Width:  129 mm
Thickness:  14 mm
Weight:  360 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  NP
Price:  GBP 9.99
Price:  USD 16.95
Rights:  World

Short description/annotation:  

Main description:  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor’s brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume. Neither genre nor Granta shall be overlooked in the search for the very best new short fiction.

Table of contents:
Emma Unsworth
HP Tinker
Michael Marshall Smith
Dan Powell
Julian Gough
Stuart Evers
Stella Duffy
Socrates Adams-Florou
Jonathan Trigell
Will Self
Jaki McCarrick
Robert Shearman
Alison MacLeod
Jo Lloyd
Neil Campbell
Joel Lane
Ramsey Campbell
Jeanette Winterson
Jon McGregor
AK Benedict

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Unpublished endorsement:  Some pairings can be relied upon – literature and life, Steptoe and Son, Lennon and McCartney, Nicholas Royle and a good anthology.

Andrew O'Hagan

Previous review quote:  Slip this lightweight but nourishing anthology into your holiday bag. Editor Royle has selected 20 published stories from British writers. His own (excellent) taste means that little explosions of weirdness or transcendence often erupt amid much well-observed everyday life.

Boyd Tonkin
Independent

Previous review quote:  It’s so good that it’s hard to believe that there was no equivalent during the 17 years since Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best English Short Stories ceased publication in 1994. The first selection makes a very good beginning

Kate Saunders
Times

Previous review quote:  Let's hope this series becomes an annual fixture.

Chris Power
The Guardian