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Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
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Synopsis Winner of the 2015 International Frank O’Connor Short Story Award Winner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: Fiction Shortlisted...
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Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
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Synopsis Winner of the Scott Prize Winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection The Herald: Book of the Year...
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Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
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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 In contemporary America, an un-named college student sets out on an obsessive journey of discovery to collect and record the life-stories of total strangers. The interviews that follow have...
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Synopsis The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or...
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Synopsis Lush Library Recommends: Anna James’ Books for 2018 Variations and fugue on the theme of obsession Vesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, reasonable and ironic people who read...
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SynopsisFrom the award-winning author of West and The Mission HouseSome New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness...
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Synopsis The South Westerlies is an attempt to know place (Gower) through the creation of a collection of short stories. Place is not a cosmetic backdrop, but an affecting agent...
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Synopsis “Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …” Best British Short Stories invites you to...
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SynopsisThe nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately,...
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the East Midland’s Book Award 2014 The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for...
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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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Synopsis From the secrets of the forest, to the magic of the sea, these nine stories tell of what happens when passion, desire, loneliness and imprisonment lead us on a...
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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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SynopsisLonglisted for the Edge Hill PrizeLike Fado consists of thirteen individual stories that culminate in the extended novella-like story, ‘Whitethorn’. Each story takes us into the lived experience and psychological...
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Synopsis “In fact, the higher I climbed, the more I felt the crawling horror of knowledge. At the foot of the stairs, all of truth lay torn open, flayed; with...
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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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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 Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Fly Away Home is Marina Warner’s third – and eagerly-awaited - collection of short stories. Inspired by fairy tales, legends,...
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SynopsisMelting Point fuses prose and poetry, realism and literary inventiveness, in dealing with the absurdity of humanity. Its fourteen stories embrace a dizzying variety of genres: hyperrealism, sci-fi, the Gothic...
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SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Short Story CollectionWho are the stars of these brief lives? A boy who steals a trundlewheel. An astronaut. A betrayed wife. A...
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Synopsis Neil Campbell’s new collection of short stories draws upon the work of American painter Edward Hopper. Many of the stories are directly inspired by the visual stimuli of a...
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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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SynopsisThis long-awaited collection brings together a selection of Stella Duffy’s award-winning short fiction. It includes stories written for radio, here in print for the first time since they were broadcast,...
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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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SynopsisFiction Category Winner in the 2022 East Anglian Book AwardsSome of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants....
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Synopsis David Rose’s debut novel Vault won high praise upon its publication in 2011. Now, Salt is pleased to present Rose’s long-awaited collection of short stories – a series of...
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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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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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Synopsis ‘There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today’ – Susan Haigh, The Short Review Best British Short Stories invites you to judge...
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Synopsis Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize What if, in a parallel universe, you made a different choice of lover? What if you’ve spent your whole life...
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Synopsis Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Fiction Anthology From village storytellers to nineteenth-century serialisations, from pub anecdotes to dramatic monologues, storytelling is an enduring art form. This...
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SynopsisThis passionate new book gathers together for the first time many of Vanessa Gebbie’s award-winning stories. Described by Maggie Gee as ‘a prodigiously gifted new writer’, this is a natural...
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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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Synopsis A girl meets with danger on the beach when she is lured away by a strange boy; a bereaved wife enlists the help of a mysterious woman to perform...
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Synopsis Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Songs of the drowned and a dog with wings… “The world was a grey place once, concrete grey and striped...
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SynopsisThe women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs...
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Synopsis Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short...
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SynopsisWinner of the 2011 Edge Hill Readers’ PrizeThe characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is...
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Synopsis Storm Warning is the latest collection from award-winning writer Vanessa Gebbie, described as ‘prodigiously gifted’ by novelist Maggie Gee. It explores the echoes of human conflict in a series...
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Synopsis David Gaffney’s compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory...
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SynopsisShortlisted for The 2013 Scott PrizeThe characters in this Scott Prize shortlisted debut collection are all a little broken. Haunted by the past, trapped in the present, and frightened of...
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SynopsisThese are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it. A small boy struggles with his parents’ divorce, a doctor fails to understand the...