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SynopsisThe nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately,...
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Synopsis Dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind – presenting them for...
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SynopsisThe Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. With a nod to Mark E. Smith – late lead singer of The Fall and...
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Synopsis The story of a man walking down a ramp, After Absalon is the culmination of Simon Okotie’s extraordinary trilogy of novels. Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, is on the trail...
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SynopsisFado consists of thirteen individual stories that culminate in the extended novella-like story, ‘Whitethorn’. Each story takes us into the lived experience and psychological dilemmas of its characters, dissolving certitude...
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Synopsis Heat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,‘What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!’ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it...
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Synopsis Heartbreaking detail permeates Hardisty's deftly musical debut. These are love poems, conjuring relationships just beginning, gone astray, turned wrong, or fading from view. The reader is on tour through...
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Synopsis Astral Travel, about a charismatic but troubled Irishman and his effect on his family, explores the way that the secrets forged by cultural, religious and sexual prejudice can reverberate...
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Synopsis‘A notoriously scary ghost is supposed to haunt the ruined medieval castle where Sunny and his friends are spending the day. But when a troubling visitor arrives at the antique...
By Jane Fraser The South Westerlies was the natural title to give to my first collection of short fiction published by SALT in June 2019. All eighteen stories (edited down from the original twenty-three that I submitted for my PhD at Swansea University in 2017) are given cohesion by the geographic location of the Gower peninsula, south Wales, and the dismal tone of the prevalent rain-laden south-westerly wind that blows across its shores, affecting everything in its path. Perhaps even its people. The Gower peninsula is my home patch, my milltir sgwar (square mile) in Welsh: latitude 51 degrees north, 4 degrees west, an administrative part of the City & County of Swansea, south Wales, and the UK’s first designated...