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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The White Road and Other Stories
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Synopsis What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes? They're among the multiple venues where award-winning...
Best British Short Stories 2013
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Synopsis The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories...
The Manet Girl
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Synopsis The stories in The Manet Girl explore sexual relations – from both male and female points of view – in the present, but sometimes with a backdrop of several...
As Rivers Flow
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Synopsis 'Oblivious to human exploits,' it says in the story 'Aire', 'rivers continue'. Twelve rivers, twelve stories. These waterways – eight in England, one in Portugal, one in Germany and...
Stepping Out
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Synopsis These stories observe how people live through moments of realisation; how they negotiate the avenues of loss, with cowardice and courage and a fair amount of bewilderment. While fishing...
Memoirs of a Gone World
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SynopsisThis collection of witty, sexually-charged stories takes the reader through four decades of world events, including our present day banking crisis. In stories that are at times surreal, Martin Bax...
Last Fling
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SynopsisThis is the first short story collection from an acclaimed novelist with a wide and loyal readership. Many of the stories have won prizes, been published or broadcast; some are...
Hot Kitchen Snow
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SynopsisTypically we lie to each other four times a day and the commonest lie told is, ‘I’m fine.’ The characters in Hot Kitchen Snow go one step further: they lie...
A Girl’s Arm
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SynopsisA Girl’s Arm is a collection of stories homing in on the pressure points in the lives of its characters. Although a mixed bag from a variety of backgrounds –...
Sweet Home
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SynopsisA bereaved mother borrows her next door neighbor’s baby. An outsider builds a gingerbread house at the edge of an English village. A woman is seduced into buying special-offer babies...
A Man Walks into a Kitchen
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SynopsisIn mid-60s Belfast, Eddie Francey is a young comedian trying to get a break. He wonders if he has what it takes, but he has responsibilities: a wife and young...
Lions in Winter
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SynopsisFive million English-speaking Chinese, Indians and Malays live in Singapore today – an artificial port city created entirely by British traders in the 19th century. The Singapore-born, multi-lingual American writer...
The Only Living Boy
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Synopsis‘When I think of the trouble they’ve got me in, I don’t know why I love Parker pens the way I do...’Robert Graham’s elegantly crafted short stories are heartwarming, quirky...
Twelve Stories
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SynopsisThis is Paul Magrs’ first collection of short stories for twelve years. I’ve always written them, alongside my novels. These twelve pieces all began with a moment of observation –...
Tender
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SynopsisTender is the story of the Dax family. Or the stories of the Dax family. When Ali and Bill meet it’s 1974, she’s a physiotherapist with a broken heart, he’s...
Body Parts
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SynopsisHuman anatomy and affairs of the heart take on a whole new dimension in this book. Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love is a collection of stories, each one dedicated...
The Most Serene Republic
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SynopsisTwo people find love through a chance meeting in the streets of Antwerp. An English sea captain is unfaithful in the Guayaquil of 1910. In the south of France a...
Ballistics
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SynopsisThis collection of prize-winning stories represent major high-points from Alex Keegan’s early years as a short-story writer. These stories will stay with you, make you return and look behind the...
The I Love You Book
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SynopsisWilliam Guy’s life-affirming and uplifting collection of lovers’ monologues gathers together a hundred different men and women, speaking about the people, places, life and things they love. Alongside stories of...
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...
Rothko’s Red
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SynopsisRothko’s Red is a collection of ten stories, subtly linked by painting and art, about the lives of women: their hopes, fears, failures and challenges. They reveal the choices and...
The Searching Glance
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Synopsis‘The Searching Glance’ is the long-awaited second collection from one of Scotland’s leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited by the characters in these stories are diverse – a hill...
The Scent of Cinnamon
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SynopsisThese prize-winning stories deal with life, love, loneliness, delusion, misunderstanding, death. An office worker wakes to find his body invaded by a mysterious parasite. A desperate woman seeks escape through...
Family Connections
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SynopsisThese stories trace the fragile and enduring connections between those related by blood, and those not. A gay couple care for a cantankerous neighbour, a daughter hangs on to the...
Third Class Superhero
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SynopsisMoisture Man, the hero of “Third Class Superhero”, is tired of watching his former classmates kick ass and claim their secret hideouts while he struggles to maintain his good-guy accreditation....
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