Alice Jolly’s most recent novel, Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile, was published in 2018 by Unbound. It was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize. She has won the Pen Ackerley Prize for memoir and the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize for one of her short stories. She was awarded an O Henry Prize in 2021 and teaches creative writing at Oxford University.
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,...