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Best British Short Stories 2019
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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...
The Redemption of Galen Pike
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2017
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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...
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2018
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2020
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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,...
New World Fairy Tales
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2016
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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...
Temptation: A User’s Guide
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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...
Some New Ambush
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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...
The South Westerlies
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2015
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2021
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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,...
The Pre-War House and Other Stories
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2022
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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,...
Eastmouth and Other Stories
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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...
The Other World, It Whispers
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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...
The Moon is Trending
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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,...
Like Fado
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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...
Broken Things
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2023
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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...
Mammals, I Think We Are Called
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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...
Fly Away Home
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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,...
Melting Point
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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...
All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten
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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...
Pictures from Hopper
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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...
Concrete Fields
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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...
Everything is Moving, Everything is Joined
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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,...
Candescent Blooms
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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...
Scablands and Other Stories
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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...
Stewkey Blues
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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....
Posthumous Stories
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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...
Forgetting is How We Survive
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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...
Licensed Premises
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2014
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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...
Used to Be
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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...
Overheard
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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...
Words from a Glass Bubble
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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...
Connective Tissue
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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...
Somewhere Else, or Even Here
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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...
Fates of the Animals
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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...
Nude
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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...
Best British Short Stories 2011
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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...
The Method
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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...
Storm Warning
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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...
Sawn-Off Tales
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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...
Looking Out Of Broken Windows
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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...
Balancing on the Edge of the World
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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...
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