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|author= Joe Hill
|summary=''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the nature of transition and change. The often grisly, macabre and ghoulish nature of the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389431</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Tove Jansson
|title= Letters From Klara
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Famed in the UK for her creation of the Moomin family, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writings. For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of books'' and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most of the translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the series, and secondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former will be rectified, the latter is a sad thought.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Lee Child
|title= No Middle Name
|rating= 4
|genre= Crime
|summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A Fanfare of Tales
|author=Patrick C Reidy
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I love short stories, so I'm always happy when a new collection arrives for review. ''A Fanfare of Tales'' by Patrick C Reidy promises me ''a compilation of short stories that highlight the adventures of diverse characters as each encounters unforeseen challenges''. I like this premise. So how does the book shape up?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665983</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero
|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise
|rating=3.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and of course with her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do so. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Edwards (editor)
|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)
|rating= 5
|genre= Crime
|summary=Consider the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where the noise is emanating. When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers a dead man in the hallway with a knife in his throat. He goes to fetch help, but upon returning, finds that the street does not have a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Michael R Lane
|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection of Short Stories
|rating= 4
|genre= Short Stories
|summary=From stories of young people caught up in a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, to a believer in God having her faith shaken by the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating and clever short stories here. From farm to urban, from World War II to the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight the tender underbelly of the human condition in all its glory and despair on these varied stages of fiction.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Rick Bass
|title= For a Little While
|rating= 4
|genre= Short Stories
|summary=''For a Little While'' is a collection of twenty-five short stories from Rick Bass. As someone previously unacquainted with Bass' work this new collection was a wonderful introduction to his quirky, unusual style which focuses on stripped back, simple fables featuring often mundane situations, mysterious characters and magical experiences. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted and the stories are dreamy, loose narratives covering everything from love to death to choices made and chances taken.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>
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|title=A Collection of Short Stories
|author=Gillian Fletcher-Edwards
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Marged Evans allowed a break-up with a lover to affect everything in her life. Osian wanted to invest in the present but Marged loved the past. Since they drifted apart, Marged's life has been careful, ordered, unadventurous. But then Osian sends her a Christmas card and everything changes. ''Marged Evans'' is the first and longest in this collection of short stories from Gillian Fletcher-Edwards. It's almost a novella and its initially slow pace sets off quite the masterclass in how one event can throw everything into unexpected - but lovely - chaos.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662445</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence
|title= The Book of English Folk Tales
|rating= 4
|genre= Anthologies
|summary= From ghosts to witches, to giants and fairies, ''The Book of English Folk Tales'' is a fascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Out of print for over three decades, this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and is sure to capture the attention of a new generation of lovers of folklore.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468313177</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley McKay
|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen too. As we travel through the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting cases. In fact there's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yule.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Telford and Louise Verity
|title=Sins
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them all shown to us, from school age and up to the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably can't pin down when they were actually set in stone without help. Similarly, is there anything new in the world of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the woman, the husband), a clear set of rules to obey, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involved. Well, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and if it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>
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