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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith HermannAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Alice|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Alice'' is a collection of five short stories, linked thematically since they all deal with the subject of death, but they are also linked because the central character, Alice, is the same in each story. So rather than feeling like short stories the book has a hint of the novel to it, yet the stories are never completed or fully told so itAll Tomorrow's a novel where you're not always sure what's going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668529X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jamil Ahmad|title=The Wandering FalconBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary="In the tangle ''Opening up new ways of crumbling, weather-beaten and broken hills, where thinking about the borders shape of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, is a military outpost…" Thus begins the tale of Tor Baz, the Black Falcon. To this desolate place things to come two wanderers, a man and a woman seeking refuge. ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cees Nooteboom and Ina Rilke (Translator)B0CDZRGT1M|title=The Foxes Come At Night And Other Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch
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|summary=There's 'Got a bold statement on the front cover fromminute to be amused, as it happensentertained, one of my favourite authors, [[:Category:A S Byatt|A S Byatt]] saying that Nooteboom is or challenged?''one of the greatest modern novelists'' so I thought that I was in for a treat. But I didn't enjoy the first These 100 stories are super short story. Not the greatest of startsNone is more than 300 words. I was disappointed to say the least and was wondering what all the fuss was aboutYou can read one in a flash. Then I started to read the story entitled ''Thunderstorm'' and things started to pick upSome are funny. Some are poignant. I appreciated the sparse and elegant languageAll are short. Lines such as 'Five people at an outdoor cafe' Question: two women ... how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a solitary black man ... fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a couple at book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a table nearby. Enough fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a filmthree hundred word limit.That' How lovely and evocative is that last line, I'm thinking. I read it twice as it was so goods about a single page in your average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050230</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GeeRachel Harrison|title=Last FlingBad Dolls
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|summary=Sue Gee is well known It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for her novels, but fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this is her first collection of short stories. Short story collections are not for everyone. collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and Ididn've always enjoyed them since they fit easily into a busy lifet have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, leaving you and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as if you've lived through a whole story in just breakup, trying a short space of time. It's easier new dieting app, going to find the time for a quick story sometimes than to sit down hen party and a coping with a four hundred page novel!grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773061</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SimpsonB0CCCVRSGX|title=In-Flight Entertainment|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=I am always thrilled to see that Helen Simpson has brought out a new book. I am a big fan of her crisp, funny, observant short stories. So I picked up 'In Flight Entertainment' with some anticipation. I was not disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview2|author=John E Flannery|title=Toby's Little EdenRichard F Walker|rating=3.54
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|summary=John E FlanneryThis is Richard F Walker's debut collection contains four second volume of short stories (although one is more of a novella) and a series of amusing sketches about the ground staff at a new Golf Course . There are thirteen in north Manchester. They're more varied than they might appear at first glance all and demonstrate Flannery's ability to get straight to the heart I took something from each of the story without wasting words and to develop character as economically as possible, whilst still holding the reader's imaginationthem. I knew as soon as I began ''The Ghostwriter'There isn' t a single one that I wasndoesn't going deserve to be disappointed as a man who has written successful thrillers is possessed by among the others or brings down the spirit of Charles Dickensoverall quality. Itcan be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, so I's a neat riff on John Braine's idea that novelist wait for an idea ll just pick two to descend on them talk about and Graham Greene's belief that novelists are like mediumsI think they give a general flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445777940</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Parker1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The SexesFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=From the young woman who examined her handkerchief in minute detail, to the soldier's leave which didn't live up to expectationOur future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, through the thoughts of the early hours of the morning to the actress who proved a disappointment to her fan we got night-vision killer drones and on automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to the glorious culmination of the child who should never have been called Lolita we have five wonderful short storiestrack grandma. They're in a book that's no bigger than most short stories but buy it and it could well be the best buy that you make this year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014119619X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William StyronB09XZMCDVF|title=The Suicide RunStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker
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|summary=''A WW2 naval soldier, guarding news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a prison island for those found guilty at courtmartials, is forced to wonder if wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he is winning tries walking around in his own battles against those arriving and leaving. A soldier remembers calming memories, and those causing tension, as he rests up before action. And imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a highly-charged young man, there may be too much risk volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to be found have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his high-octane downtime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532220</amazonuk>}}feet, and awfully familiar…''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John H Watson, Tony Reynolds and Chris Coady1737030942|title=The Lost Stories of Sherlock HolmesBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick
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|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=It is Sometimes, you deserve a truth universally acknowledged that a successful detective character will have far too many cases in his career for it to be at all realistic. The worst case in point are the Hardy Boys, who have had two hundred or more adventures treat and are still not 20. Slightly more literary, but no less busy it can seem, mine was Sherlock Holmes, for Watson declaimed many times that he did not write down all that manJolly Walker Bittick's exploits''Bag O'Goodies''. Tony Reynolds here gives us eight more casesI first encountered his writing about a year ago, making Holmes' workload even more impressive.when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685618</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Polly Samson|title=Perfect Lives|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=The eleven short stories in Perfect Lives are about Cape Henry House]], a group rollicking tale of people living in an English seaside townwhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Each story of challenged relationships Right now, devastating discoveries and objects and people with I didn't want a history is carefully and beautifully craftedfull-length novel, stands alone so I turned to this anthology of verse and works well in its own right, but the connections between all the short stories offer an extra, fascinating dimension. Each story made me want to look at the others again to understand how they all connect, to piece together the different bits of people Bittick's lives in each story. This format also offers an opportunity to see some of the characters from several different perspectives, writing has matured - and perhaps make the short stories more satisfying to those who are dissatisfied by their brevity, as some of the same so have his characters reappear, so offering some of the advantages of the novel while staying in the short story form. There are four stories told in the first person by an unnamed woman who is married with two young sons, and then one of her sons has a story of his own (Ivan Knows) Well... There are a variety most of narrative viewpoints – women, men, a little boy, a teenage girl, first and third person.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1860499929</amazonuk>them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shena Mackay1529418100|title=The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This volume of short stories, first published in 2008 but new in paperback, has a lot to offer those familiar with Shena MackayBruno's previous work Challenge and readers coming to her stories for the first time, with a generous thirty six stories - thirteen recent stories collected in book form for the first time are combined with twenty three from Shena Mackay's previous collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099469677</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Dordogne Tales|author=Sheila O'Flanagan|title=A Season to Remember|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=We first meet the Lodge owners, a likable couple. They find running their upmarket country house type hotel both exhilarating and exhausting. The novel is bang up to date so O'Flanagan gets in the whole recession/banker-bashing thing early on. As the festive season looms, the unthinkable has happened. Empty rooms. They're not used to empty rooms, at any time of the year. Normally the Lodge is a full house. But then a slow and steady trickle starts as our characters book in - and the story starts proper, so to speak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755375157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Mortimer|title=Rumpole at ChristmasMartin Walker
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|summary=This I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book is as slim as one down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of RumpoleMartin Walker's [[Martin Walker's beloved packets of cigars and it can also be read Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the time it takes an average turkey temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to cook in the oven on Christmas Dayresist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. A handful of festive, short stories is covered in this book with its appealing front cover. Most of For those new to the stories have been previously published elsewhereseries, mainly in there'The Strand Magazines an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who' but also s who and the background to why Bruno is in some of the national newspapersSt Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raymond CarverB08NF79QXT|title=BeginnersCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary= One thing you soon surmise from reading Raymond Carver is that he was an alcoholicThirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Carver She's characters tend to drink excessively, delighted and his stories often examine the negative impact of drinking on his central charactertwo people she's relationshipsbrought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. But nowadays Sonja, her mother, what we talk about when we talk about Carver is the role of his editor, Gordon Lishan ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540320</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colm Toibin|title=The Empty Family|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=In his first book since the pitchJessica's thirty-perfect [[Brooklyn by Colm Toibin|Brooklyn]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme of exile four and homecoming in his new collection of short stories, Liberty's best friend: they'The Empty Familyve known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica'. As the title suggests, many of the stories also revolve around family relationshipss husband, Charles and their sweet and sour Naturefour-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kurt VonnegutB08KKQ85FN|title=Look at the BirdieBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
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|summary=Kurt Vonnegut died ''If a couple of years ago after woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a sci fi writing career spanning over fifty years; he was well-known for his humanist views. This collection of unpublished short stories shows Vonnegut at his dark bestRottweiler in lipstick, his theme, individuals out for themselves in an uncaring society. A colleague at The Bookbag [[Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut|recently wrote]] that Kurt Vonnegut's early writing is his strongest. If that is soAmbassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, then this collectionmore to the point, illustrated with cartoons by about to discover the author, will be good news for real world of bus timetables and paying his many fansown gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548852</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia DavisB08CHJLNBS|title=The Collected Short Stories of Lydia DavisCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=As you might expect with short storiesHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the themes are as varied as Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Fears of Mrs OrlandoSecret]] but she' to s moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else'Mothers' and of courses philosophies, I have my own particular favouritesto something a little deeper. Most Charles is more of these short stories cover a couple of pages[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but others are merely a sentence or two, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. AndThey're obviously not at all compatible, for me, the less on the page, the more impart the words usually haveso why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. In short (no pun intended) there would seem And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to be something for everyone in these 700+ pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114504X</amazonuk>him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly LinkMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Pretty MonstersCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating=34.5
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|summary=It goes without sayingCurses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, but the greatest thing about fantasy fiction is or not to be able to do that one . Children can go anywhere with itbe cursed, as can princesses on the verge of marrying, and do anythingolder people too. So It seems in a young man can easily try and dig his girlfriend up and retrieve some poetry he romantically left with her - only to have a hairy evening as a resultway there's no escaping it. There can be Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a psychic link between a young ladstandout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, called Onion and doomed to die in a terrorist attackthat demonised place, and his cousin while she works as slave in an odd community of wizardsthat other bewitched person. Several worlds can We'd be accessed through an elderly woman's handbag, for better or worsevery wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847677843</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A L KennedyStibbe_Xmas|title=What BecomesAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You're three stories into this collection and two people only have cut their hands open preparing food - to think about the turkey for that – once upon a man with love drooping away from his marriagetime it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, making soupand if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and anotherget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, a greengrocerthough, preparing stock and thinking about his own relationship. But there is no pattern to thatof course also a time of great boons. Four stories It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and there have been two bursts of non-sequitur comedy. Why your fruit might be ruined by stray fingersbeards, and it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thoughts of thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a woman decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a flotation tankchild, remembering Doctor Who, locked parental doors - and as for the urban myths makers of gerbils. But there's still no pattern - Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and that's sell them any other time of the point of these combined stories. Life and all of its emotions does not live to rule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009949406X</amazonuk>year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=A Winter Book
|author=Tove Jansson
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In her home country of Finland – Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and no doubt throughout much later becoming television characters of the rest of Europe which is not quite so sniffy about foreign literature as Britain tends to be – Jansson is generally recognised as an author of talentsimplicity, skill, verve naivety and wit sheer 'goodness' that extended far beyond the Moomin Troll would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories , simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for which she is best known in this country. Those children's books were first published in England sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since (adults as well as being adapted children…and that she had a feeling for just about every other medium going), the natural world and a joy they are too, the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but it is only recently that we have been granted went far beyond any fantasy of how the pleasures of reading her fiction for adultsworld might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095489958X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Grisham1911115847|title=Ford CountyNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=When I think of John Grisham I tend to think firstly of lawyers. Well, actually, I think ''Nights of Tom Cruise first to be honest, and then the whole lawyer thing. I expect surprising twists and long, detailed plots. This collection, however, Creaking Bed'' is a book collection of short stories so has to work differentlyby Toni Kan. There isn't room within a short story for a lengthy, twisting plot, and so Grisham has to rely on other skills to make them work. My feeling was that some do and some don't. Set in America's Deep South all the The series of stories revolve around a rather mixed bag tell of characters from Ford County, with the ever-present lawyers but also gamblers, murderers, con artists, drunks lives and scoundrels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099545780</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Harvey|title=A Darker Shade lusts of Blue|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=There are eighteen short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts an assortment of London you'd generally really rather avoid characters living in and rural East Angliaaround Lagos, Nigeria. You'll see broken familiesNigeria, revenge killingsin this collection, prostitution is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and drugspeople are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force Kan writes with a vitality and underpaid men and women staffing it. And then there are the people who, in spite passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer of everything, fight for justicehope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Okri1529014484|title=Tales of FreedomExhalation |author=Ted Chiang
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|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Tales of Freedom is a book of two halvesOver the past twenty-eight years, with a Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short story entitled Comic Destiny taking up the majority of the book. Comic Destiny is made up of a series of short pieces that follow on from each other and stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are probably best described as being closer to prose poetry than anything else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041597</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Feaver|title=Love Me Tender|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=A woman remembers her dead husband playing Love Me Tender (the song made famous by Elvis Presley) on his tenor horn. She is in a daze, feeling the grief of the bereaved widow she science fiction fan it is, the betrayal likely that you have already come across some of the deceived wife, and the guilt of having murdered himwork by Ted Chiang. The title story of If you haven't then take this collection is all the more moving and startling because of its understated style, and what is not said as well as what isopportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521288</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind Adiga1794467440|title=Between the AssassinationsWatchwords |author=Philip Neal
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|summary=''Between the Assassinations'' is a This satisfying collection of short stories set in has a provenance at least as beguiling as the fictional South Indian town provenance of Kittur, which is almost certainly Mangalore (where the Adiga grew up). But the plight of the residents can be found in any Indian city - which I imagine is Adiga's point of setting antique watches that inspired it in a fictional location. The twelve stories are vaguely interlinked (there are some recurring characters) but for the most part the stories stand alone. The time period is set between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, although like the location, the time period and the assassinations of the title have little bearing on the events themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848871236</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Lasdun1529006031|title=It's Beginning To HurtReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors
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|summary=ItIn following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Beginning Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to Hurt is a collection of sixteen enjoy these short storiesthat come at the core from a tangent, all bound together by that show the theme benefits of hurt in various formsthe oblique glance. It is James Lasdun I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's third collection of short stories andnovella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, chances arefor obvious reasons). For another thing, if you are a fan there was every reason to expect some kind of the short story then you will have read something greatness here – with Carroll much loved by him before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512327</amazonuk>millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Porter1846974658|title=The Theory of Light and MatterLong Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker
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|summary=Both On my travels around the book cover and its title are enticing, quirky, eye-catching. Personallyworld, I'm have a fan of most things American including American fictiontendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, so and while I couldn't wait to start reading. I was not disappointed. Porter introduces us to characters, buy as many of whom would probably be described second-hand escapist tales as deeply flawed. He shares the darker side of modern-day American life with the reader - which next person, what I'm really looking for is far from the bright lights of glitzy New York or the sun-drenched beaches of California. You could say that this is all about real life. To underline his point, Porter's characters are mostly local folks (to use a favourite American word) shuffling through life as best they can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408982X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Kelman|title=If it is Your Life|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=''If This Is Your Life'' is not so much a collection of short stories as a collection of pieces of creative writing. Kelman doesn't really do 'stories'. In nineteen pieces of writing of varying length from just a single page to more lengthy pieces– the cookbook maybe, such as the story that gives its title to this collectionmaps definitely, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on but above all: the edge of societyfolk tales. He addresses issues such as class If I ever get to Burma, politicsI won't need to hunt, gender, age and ill healthI can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)B077969HN8|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Anyone who enjoys a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this book, which is a collection of nineteen short stories by a variety of authors. I have to admit that I have only heard of one of the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]], who writes the [[The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of the genre and don't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with it. Despite this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlternative Medicine|author=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)|title=Loves Me, Loves Me NotLaura Solomon
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|summary=What Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a feast is presented in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary twist of the Romantic Novelistssurrealism'' Association. In I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a Whofan of either, but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too''s Who of black and the genre, there are writers from every age group, including one surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or two who might even have been founder members flick of the RNA, back in 1960reality when you were least expecting it. My advice is Your comfort zones are going to sip through be invaded in the stories slowly, rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestionnicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Tillotson9386897504|title=Cut on the Bias|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women Tales of Love and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisability|author=Janice Galloway|title=Collected StoriesLaura Solomon|rating=54
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|summary=In this collection, stories are taken from two previous volumes, Blood and Where You Find It. The fortyI've always believed that less-two snap shots of life are mainly able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of women skill and young girls, struggling with emotions, sometimes realized talent to write a short story which holds the reader and sometimes notkeeps them coming back for more. In There are far too many collections of short stories which are all, there seems too easy to be an underlying link of isolation put down and truth. The settings are varied, from forget after you've read a visit to the dentist to the place known as home, to a walk in the eveningcouple of pieces. We have I've recently read a peek into the deepest darkest corners couple of everyday relationshipsnovellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with lovers, partners and most of all ourselvesan even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley Jackson1986586898|title=Going To The Lottery and Other Last: Short StoriesAbout Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
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|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Even though it was written over sixty years agoIn the opening story, The Lottery, coming in at fewer than 3,500 words still a man whose wife has the power to shock. When it first appeared in the The New Yorker in 1948 it caused many outraged readers to cancel their subscriptions such was the devastating nature of the story. Time may have lessened sensibilities over the latter half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first deserted him visits Sandown with little money but The Lottery, like many of the other stories comes away with cash in this timely reissue, still packs a mighty punch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191430</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, his pocket - and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]wife. Poe In ''s A Grey Day''Tales an owner struggles with the problem of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best whether or not to run his horse in this editionthe Gold Cup when the ground is against him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Bedford|title=None of the Cadillacs My favourite was Pink|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=I chose this book because ''The Story of its superb title – H'', the last and best memoir in a collection story of sixteen storiesFoinavon. These Humberside and Lincolnshire stories have H is depicted as a background beat of Fifties' music that sets them firmly in an exciting, disturbing time for young kind horse who only wanted to please people everywhere, not least for the author and his friends, as old ways of living made way for new along . After changing hands on various occasions he came to the East Coast yard of EnglandJohn Kempton.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529445</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Cussler H (editoror Foinavon) |title=Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=If you enjoy thrillers or short stories then you might find this book was entered in the Grand National and considered a treatno-hoper. If you enjoy them both then it's In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a treasure trove. ''Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down'' is edited by bestpile-selling author [[:Category:Clive Cussler|Clive Cussler]] (although none of his work is included) and includes work by some authors who are up occurred at the top of their game23rd fence. There are twenty three stories in allFoinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, each about twenty pages long cleared the fence and they're perfect for those moments when you just want galloped to dip into something short and satisfyingthe line, winning the race at odds of 100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303209</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Eisner 9386897296|title=Minor Miracles|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting on with two main courses, but as with the best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depth. We start with the entire life cycle - rise, fall, rise, fall - of a hobo feeding pigeons in the park. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - heHell's been keeping his dignity intact, with a huge amount of chutzpah and more. Next, a smart Alec defeats the older kids on the stoop with a bit of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Agnes Owens |title=The Complete Novellas|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from the nineteen forties and fifties. Now an octogenarian, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at the age of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new edition, a companion volume to her short stories, published in 2008. I don't think you'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUnveiling|author=Kazuo Ishiguro |title=Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Laura Solomon
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|summary=A jobbing guitarist from an Eastern European countrylittle while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, playing ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in Venice''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is given a most singular gig by an ageing, passing croonernot one to take defeat lying down. An old friend He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a couple at loggerheads stays 'goody two shoes' in their flatHell). Although a strong person, but enters she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a nightmare world crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of comedycourse, doing greater and greater wrongs there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to cover his first transgressionthe devil's evil ends. A younger couple running a cafe employ a friend to help He's out, despite his wish to hide in the hills prey on their fears and weaknesses and compose new songs for his notas with many foster children, their self-esteem is very illustrious careerfragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057124498X</amazonuk>
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