Ten short story collections from British writers

Ten collections to celebrate the strength of British short story writers...

Words from a Glass Bubble

by Vanessa Gebbie

Salt

Words From a Glass Bubble is about coming to terms with the cards we are dealt. The stories pivot around the recognition that those who seem powerless can prove to be the strongest catalysts for change.

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The White Road

by Tania Hershman

Salt Publishing

Tania Hershman allows her imagination free reign, as her characters navigate through love, death, friendship, spirituality, mental illness and the havoc wreaked by the weather.

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What Becomes

by A L Kennedy

Vintage

Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility

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It's Beginning to Hurt

by James Lasdun

Vintage

There's something disarmingly low-key about James Lasdun's writing, a hard-to-define tone that nevertheless draws the reader deep into the specific moment of each story.

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Instruction Manual for Swallowing

by Adam Marek

Comma Press

Robotic insects, in-growing cutlery, flesh-serving waiters in a zombie cafe... Welcome to the surreal, misshapen universe of Adam Marek's first collection.

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Music for the Off-Key

by Courttia Newland

Peepal Tree Press

Drawing inspiration from everything from traditional horror movies to the contemporary sophistication of Japanese works in this genre, Newland brings together the literary and the popular in a uniquely Black British mix.

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Don’t Tell Me The Truth about Love

by Dan Rhodes

Cannongate

With this new collection of short stories, Dan Rhodes keeps as his subject the intricacies and deficiencies of desire, but his methods have changed.

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Everyday

by Lee Rourke

Social Disease

Everyday takes the reader for a dawdle into the moribund heart of London.

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Hey Yeah Right Get a Life

by Helen Simpson

Vintage

Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, Helen Simpson's third collection of short stories, is about the hectic day-to-day whirlpool of women's lives- women who want to improve their lot, women who yearn to 'get a life' better than their own.

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The Loudest Sound and Nothing

by Clare Wigfall

Faber

Wigfall moves between territories effortlessly, creating her worlds with a wonderful economy, the perfectly weighted use of details and voice.

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