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Dark Lies the Island
Jonathan CapeThe new short story collection from Kevin Barry arrives hot on the heels of his triumph at this year's The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Included in this collection are 'Fjords of Kilkerry' (longlisted in 2011) and... -
Once You Break A Knuckle
BloomsburyThere's something about the troubled landscape in D W Wilson's short stories that remind me of the moments in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon and his rough-round-the-edges friends work hard, play hard then argue. There's a bonhomie in their... -
Outside the Asylum
Grist BooksGrist, the University of Huddersfield's collection of 'the best short fiction of 2012', aims to 'place emerging writers alongside established writers in order to raise their profile and help them establish the first step to becoming professional writers'. For an... -
Diving Belles
BloomsburyLucy Wood's debut collection of short stories evokes the Cornwall landscape, and her deftly drawn characters confide a deeply ambivalent view of the past, and of possibilities which are now closed to them. The juxtaposition of Cornish folklore with contemporary... -
Homesick
BloomsburyThoughtful, melancholic, haunting, Homesick is a collection of interlinked stories which muse on growing up, fitting in and the ephemeral nature of human life. Set among the Sri Lankan community in London, Homesick begins in 1982, when family and friends... -
Light Lifting
Jonathan CapeFor a collection entitled Light Lifting (manual labour rather than, as I first thought, daylight), there's a lot of heavy in Alexander MacLeod's superb debut. MacLeod is fascinated by latent violence; his narrations skate with serene and leisurely grace across... -
Granta 118
Granta'The Island', a photo essay by Stacy Kranitz presents a series of shots from Isle de Jean Charles, which is slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimp boats lay disused, a child plays alone on a rope swing attached... -
Suddenly, A Knock At the Door
Chatto and WindusEtgar Keret's latest collection of off-kilter short stories bring a welcome sense of playful oddness to a genre that is the perfect vehicle for this sort of nimble invention. With the short form a really interesting writer like Keret can... -
Ladies and Gentlemen
VintageAdam Ross's first work, following his critically acclaimed novel Mr Peanut, is a collection of six short stories: 'Futures', 'The Rest of It', 'The Suicide Room', 'In the Basement', 'When in Rome', 'Middleman' and 'Ladies and Gentleman'. Each story reads... -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Weidenfeld & NicholsonA new short story collection from Nathan Englander shows him at his funniest and his most poignant. Each story presents some sort of philosophical conundrum that often strikes at the heart of Judaism's take on the modern world. Englander's characters...
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