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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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Little Javanese
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SynopsisThis is a collection of stories about the altering landscape of the mind and the landscape of place. The stories are set in diverse locations, France, Russia, New York, Indonesia...
The Half-Life of Songs
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Synopsis This is David Gaffney’s latest collection of micro stories. We see a world where thinking is illegal, belly dancers’ blood is used to fertilize tomato plants, pensioners in leather...
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...
Best British Short Stories 2012
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Synopsis The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. These...
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...
True North
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SynopsisIn keeping with his powerful first collection, A Little Javanese, these seven new stories by André Mangeot roam the globe, exposing human frailty in its many forms. In central Europe...
Aromabingo
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Synopsis Aromabingo builds on the critical success of David Gaffney’s 2006 collection Sawn-off Tales, offering yet more of Gaffney’s weird and edgy ultra-shorts, plus several longer works, so you can...
The Source of the Sound
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SynopsisThe Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental...
Dot, Dash
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SynopsisPrepare to enter a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where elephants squat in living rooms, plastic ducks fall from the skies and even the rabbits can’t...
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...
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...
Braking Distance
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SynopsisMotorway Service Stations are places where people pass through on their way to somewhere else: somewhere better, somewhere brighter. But every traveller has a tale to tell, a story of...
Miracle Boy and Other Stories
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SynopsisThe story collection Miracle Boy and Other Stories contains fourteen works of short fiction written over the last fifteen years – and published in some of America’s top literary magazines...
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...
Best British Short Stories 2024
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SynopsisThe nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between...
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