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SynopsisThe nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately,...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 6SynopsisAlison Moore’s debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, gathered together stories written prior to the publication of her first novel.‘The tales collected in The...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 7Synopsis‘This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling,...
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SynopsisShortlisted for Best Collection in the 2023 Forward Prizes for PoetrySennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. Imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived...
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Synopsis‘Guy Flood, returns to the Black Country with his girlfriend, Alison, to attend his identical twin brother's funeral. The reasons he left, and the secrets he left behind, slowly become...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 5SynopsisLonglisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023Ambitious and playful, darkly humorous and imaginative, these strikingly original stories move effortlessly between the realistic and the...
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Synopsis Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth...
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SynopsisAt the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Hannah Rossier, formerly Annie Price, comes face to face with Neville Weir, someone from her childhood whom she never expected, or wanted, to...
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SynopsisGuy Ware's new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 10SynopsisThe countryside – what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other...
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Series Name: Salt Modern Stories Number: 3 Synopsis Shortlisted for Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards 2023 Candescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 8SynopsisThese are tales from the post-industrial scablands – stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath...
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Series Name: Salt Modern Stories Number: 1 Synopsis ‘Nobody believes what they see on TV, so they want to look for something else, an alternate reality, or a conspiracy theory, and...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 9SynopsisA plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is found on a dark lakeside. A woman tries to make sense of a strange memory from her...
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SynopsisEvie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father's summer home on the Suffolk Coast,...
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SynopsisAddressing the loss of the poet’s mother – as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death, and the natural world – Scenes from Life on Earth explores how we grieve...
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SynopsisBecky Varley-Winter’s striking debut explores themes of daring, danger and risk in poems that are packed with imagery from the natural world. Complex, hypnotic, memorable – this collection introduces a...
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SynopsisHave you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you’d never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what...
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Synopsis Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant – Evans’s poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin lorries,...
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SynopsisAlice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 2SynopsisThis collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws at...
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SynopsisJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In...
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Synopsis‘Sing Me Down From the Dark explores the highs and lows of a ten-year sojourn in Japan, two international marriages, a homecoming, and the struggles of cross-cultural relationships. It is...
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SynopsisWhat is a city for? How long do the vibrations persist from an economic shock wave, or a guitar chord? Is anything really permanent? The ‘meanwhile site’ is a place...
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SynopsisNameless Lake is about the unspoken pressures of gender and desire, told through the shifting dynamics of a lifelong friendship. Emma and Madryn grow up with dreams of escaping their...
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Synopsis Emma Simon’s wide-ranging work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems – mysterious,...
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SynopsisWhere Richard Skinner’s previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound....
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Synopsis‘A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison and finds his old gang locked in a brutal civil war. Against his wishes,...
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SynopsisIf you can imagine William Blake playing Scrabble with Joni Mitchell, Catherine of Aragon booking into the Holiday Inn, or Cassius Clay meeting the apostle Paul on the road to...
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SynopsisIn a radical departure in style and tone, Rob A. Mackenzie’s new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary. From the murk of political engagement in...
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 4SynopsisHowell’s much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narrative flair. In this striking new collection, we...
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SynopsisMartyn Crucefix’s new collection of poems trace the forensic unfolding of two landscapes – contemporary Britain post-2016 and the countryside of the Marche in central, eastern Italy. Both places are...
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Synopsis The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his love Sigrid he will find. Somewhere else entirely, Niven sits in a palace...
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SynopsisDeparting from Virgil’s Eclogues, The Pastoraclasm is an urgent environmental address to humans, nature and vegetable gardens. During pandemic lockdowns, poet John Kinsella realised that he would have to garden...
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Synopsis Written during a residency with The Polar Museum in Cambridge, Robbergirls reimagines The Snow Queen as a Sapphic rite of passage. Offered in seven sections that echo the fairy...
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SynopsisThe Death Poems: Songs, Visons, Meditations explores death in a range of forms – celebratory, visionary and contemplatively, using subject matter as varied as the dust heaps of remains that...