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|author=Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo
|title=Judges
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I'll confess that it was the name of [[:Category:Andrea Camilleri|Andrea Camilleri]] which brought me to this book. I'm a long-time fan of his Inspector Montalbano series and a recent reading of a spin-off [[Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri|novella]] had proved to me that the concise nature of his full-length novels was no fluke. In ''Judges'' we had another novella - worth buying for its own sake - and the bonus of two more stories from better-than-decent Italian authors. All that was needed was a glass of wine and a comfortable chair. Did the book live up to expectation?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052977</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Lying Under the Apple Tree
|summary=We should always make time for short stories. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In ''Yellowcake'', a traveller boy uses three items to reunite an old man with his memories. A boy with a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up in their harbour. Rapunzel gets a makeover in which things turn out differently. We find out how the Ferryman of the Dead became the Ferrywoman. And more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Melvin Burgess
|title=Krispy Whispers
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''A woman stops you in the road and gazes fearfully into the pram. "Your babies are not human," she says. Then she runs off.''
 
Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Really, really, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story in ''Krispy Whispers'', a series of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get a girl dreaming of riches, a lonely woman who finds a pet and gets a boyfriend too closely together for mere coincidence. And a priest who actually meets God. And a very worrisome monster. Concentrate hard. Because you'll need to keep up...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>
}}