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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...
How To Be a Kosovan Bride
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Synopsis Longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2018 How to be a Kosovan Bride opens up something entirely new to the reader: the history, culture and stories...
The Third Reel
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Literary Awards (South Africa) Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time...
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...
Falling Leaves
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Twenty-three-year-old Vanessa is adrift in London. A year out of university and marooned in a quietly deflating relationship, she...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Fat of Fed Beasts
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Synopsis ‘Fleshing out the shadowy metaphysical hints of Beckett’s novels, this intellectual romp is the best debut I have read in years’ Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian Monday lunchtime: a bank...
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...
The Beginning of the End
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Synopsis Visiting Thailand to marry a sex worker, Raymond is informed that his father’s body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. While his bride embarks...
You
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Synopsis Big Issue in the North Summer Reading Recommendation A man boards a train, hoping to see the daughter he has heard nothing from for seven years. As he travels...
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...
Beautiful Place
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SynopsisBeautiful Place is a novel about leaving and losing home and making family. It is about being oppressed and angry and wanting a better life – but how is a...
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...
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....
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...
Sunny and the Ghosts
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Synopsis Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys...
The Faculty of Indifference
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SynopsisThis is what a bad day looks like: a day when something happens.Robert Exley works for the Faculty: he spends his life making sure that nothing ever happens. In counter-terrorism,...
Where Grown Men Go
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Synopsis Michael Brown’s poems have been widely-published in magazines such as The North, Southword and The Rialto, as well as in two pamphlets. In this debut full-length collection, we find...
Lanyards
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Synopsis The third part of Neil Campbell’s Manchester Trilogy, in which our struggling young writer finds love with a girl called Cho. Where a love song to Manchester becomes a...
In Their Own Words
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Synopsis In Their Own Words is a celebration of the variousness of contemporary poets living and writing in the UK today. 56 poets talk about their own poetic voices and...
The Way to Work
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SynopsisHave you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you’d never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what...
Seahurst
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SynopsisEvie Meyer and her son Alfie flee from her abusive partner Seth to spend New Year with her half-brother Luke at their late father's summer home on the Suffolk Coast,...
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...
Chimera
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SynopsisAlice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms...
Sing Me Down from the Dark
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Synopsis‘Sing Me Down From the Dark explores the highs and lows of a ten-year sojourn in Japan, two international marriages, a homecoming, and the struggles of cross-cultural relationships. It is...
Eliza and the Bear
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SynopsisEleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection...
The Meanwhile Sites
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SynopsisWhat is a city for? How long do the vibrations persist from an economic shock wave, or a guitar chord? Is anything really permanent? The ‘meanwhile site’ is a place...
The Watch
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish 2020 Fiction Prize One sweltering midsummer night, two young women forge an unlikely bond. One of them is full of hope and ambition, the...
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...
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...
Stanly’s Ghost: Book Three: The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his...
Clara’s Daughter
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Synopsis Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. She has a high-powered job, a family, a husband, yet she is defined by a term of possession:...
Hawthorn City
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Synopsis Gardens, grotesqueries, historical landscapes, destruction and darkness, all collide in Tony Williams’ explosive new collection Tony Williams is roaming the earth. The poems in Hawthorn City record the tales...
If You Could See Laughter
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SynopsisIf You Could See Laughter is Mandy Coe’s first collection of poetry for children. An award-winning poet, Mandy Coe is an educational specialist in poetry in schools and has been...
The Departure
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards At the centre of Emery’s third collection are a series of narrative poems that reveal an astonishing range of personas, from...
Single Journey Only
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SynopsisUrsula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in 1974, she worked there with...
Magnus
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Synopsis In Magnus we enter the world of heroes and villains, gods and monsters, good and evil. With a twist, of course, as one would expect from the author of...
Elephant
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SynopsisIn a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he...
Melt and Solve
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Synopsis In 2013 the poet Roddy Lumsden suffered a serious concussion. The head injury left him devoid of creativity, impersonating himself in an effort to rediscover his own identity. Four...
Sunny and the Hotel Splendid
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Synopsis On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by themselves, jam...
Sweet Shop
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Synopsis Ranging over place, memory and history, Amit Chaudhuri’s new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named...
Son of Mine
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Synopsis Son of Mine is a beautiful, multi-layered account of what it means to be a family. Peter Papathanasiou successfully intertwines two life journeys – his own and his mother’s...
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