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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,...
Gamble
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Encore Award 2019 Greg Gamble: he’s a teacher, he works hard, he’s a husband, a father. He’s a good man, or tries to be. But even...
My Shitty Twenties
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Synopsis Now optioned for TV by Lime Pictures Guardian readers favourite books of 2017 When Emily Morris was a 22-year-old student, she found out she was pregnant. The father of...
In the Family
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Synopsis This novel is a psychological thriller as well as a compelling crime read. The discovery of the skeleton of a young woman by workmen causes Detective Inspector Tim Yates...
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,...
The Book of Revelation
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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...
Zero Hours
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Synopsis In this, the second volume of a projected Manchester trilogy, the young writer takes a zero-hours job in a mail-sorting depot but struggles to cope with the demands of...
The Photographer
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Synopsis Recommended by The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2018 Meike Ziervogel’s new novel celebrates how humanity can thrive against all odds. Set at the end of the Second...
Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness
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Synopsis A young man sits on a bench looking out at the harbour of a French-Spanish border town. Ahead of him, either a cash-strapped existence strolling the sun-baked avenues of...
In the Absence of Absalon
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Synopsis Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize In the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a...
The Existential Detective
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SynopsisWilliam Blake is a private detective. When he is asked by an eccentric scientist to investigate the whereabouts of his amnesiac missing wife, Louise, Will finds himself entangled in layers...
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...
Every Seventh Wave
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SynopsisEvery Seventh Wave has strong echoes of Fiona Mozley’s Elmet and Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing. Strongly lyrical, the novel also serves as a literary thriller, with a suspenseful...
Implacable Art
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Synopsis‘In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohn’s work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. Her...
Your Fault
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Synopsis Metro: Best Fiction of 2019 Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019 ‘Elegant, unsparing, meticulously detailed novel in which a conscientious boy grows up with bedeviled parents. Where...
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...
Sister Sebastian’s Library
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Synopsis All is not what it seems in this gripping novel about two sisters’ lives: one who leaves her secular Catholic life to become a nun in deepest Africa, and...
Dead Funny: Encore
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Synopsis What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the...
After Absalon
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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...
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...
Operation Three Wise Men
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Synopsis In this one-off short story set in the Bitter Sixteen universe, everyone's favourite wise-cracking beagle Daryl gets a slightly more violent Christmas than he bargained for... Praise for Bitter...
The Somnambulist Cookbook
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SynopsisLyrical and at times unsettling, The Somnambulist Cookbook explores the quality of disappearance, slowly breaking down as the poems swing from rogue sonnets to fractured prose poems, reminiscent of Larkin,...
Bitter Sixteen: Book One: The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for new writers A Times Children’s Book of the Week A Guardian Top...
The Squeeze
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Synopsis Set between 1989 and the downfall of Ceaușescu, and 2013, The Squeeze travels between Edinburgh, Romania and Oslo and sees this multi‑award-winning and bestselling author at the height of her powers....
The Museum of Cathy
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Synopsis Guardian Fiction: Book of the Day From the author of the Orange Prize long-listed, The Pink Hotel Cathy is a young woman who escapes her feral childhood in a rundown...
Sky Hooks
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Synopsis A young warehouseman, his promising football career cut short by injury, counts flanges, valves and couplings for a living. He longs for the warmth and women of the office,...
The Well at Winter Solstice
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Synopsis These are the voices of those who are silent: in the graveyards, holy wells, the river, the changing tides. A ghostly choir of lost children, hermits, lovers and rough...
Reconciliation
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Synopsis Holly Stanton’s grandfather was a spy. In Berlin in September 1939; in Norway when the Germans invaded. Sailed back to Orkney by a brave Norwegian, whose family was killed...
Almost Love
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Synopsis Guy Maichment, a landscape gardener, pays a late-night visit to his aunt, Dame Claudia McRae, the well-known veteran archaeologist who lives in an isolated cottage near Helpston, and sees...
God’s Country
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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...
my name is abilene
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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...
natural histories
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SynopsisNature is not so much the subject as an unavoidable force in these poems, providing space and fodder for meditations on our knowledge of self and other. Here, the small...
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...
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,...
The Harbour Beyond the Movie
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Forward Poetry Prize 2007 Next Generation Poet 2014 Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant...
Melissa
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the 2016 East Midland Book Awards Melissa is set in 1999-2000. At roughly 2pm on 9th June 1999, on a small street in Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, a young...
The Retreat
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SynopsisSince childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home to the reclusive silent-film star Valerie Swanson. Having dreamed of going to art college, Sandra...
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...
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...
Never Never Never Come Back
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Synopsis Don’t go over the hill, or look too long into the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you’ll never never never never come back. With the haunting quality...
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...
Luxe
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SynopsisLuxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets – pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in...
Reservoir
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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...
The Peckham Experiment
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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...
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...
It Gets Worse
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SynopsisIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard’s rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick’s fortunes have not improved. At...
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