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Every Short Story
CanongateThe writer and illustrator Alasdair Gray, best known for his first novel, Lanark (1982), proves in this collection to be also an exceptional writer of short fiction. Each of these spare, fable-like stories contains more ideas than many writers manage... -
Hitting Trees with Sticks
Comma PressThis is award-winning Rogers' first short story collection, and each of the twenty tales is an absorbing little novel in miniature. We feel the heat and tension in an African compound for rescued women along with the well-intentioned but naive... -
Tea at the Midland
Comma PressThe short story 'Tea at the Midland' won the BBC National Short Story Award, and its subtlety and depth provides the perfect opener for this collection, exploring themes of pilgrimage, instability, loneliness and identity. Every story is a tiny heartbreak;... -
This Is How You Lose Her
FaberThe new collection of short stories from the masterful Junot Díaz catches up with Yunior, the character that connected his first collection, Drown and narrates The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. That Yunior is a cipher for Junot... -
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...
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