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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip K DickB08CHJLNBS|title= Philip K Dick's Electric DreamsCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 3|genre= Science Women's Fiction|summary= Philip K DickHe's stories were originally published Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the 50s, heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but they are more present than past. On the big screen she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else'Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic s philosophies, to reviews something a little deeper. Charles is more of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screensa [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, Channel 4 has adapted the authorhe's short stories for TVshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. Startlingly They're obviously not at all compatible, Dickso why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factualnot his usual type at all: it's obvious to his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in todayhim? The relationship's news. It is as if half obviously a century after their inceptionnon-starter, Dickisn's electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erinna MettlerMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title= Fifteen MinutesCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary=Our world is obsessed with celebrity culture - Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and in other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this advent of social media, the updates on celebrity come 24 hours a dayor not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, delivered to us as can princesses on our televisions, our magazinesthe verge of marrying, on our phones and our computersolder people too. In focusing on these heightened and airbrushed lives though, are we missing the more interesting and human stories that are out It seems in a way there? That's what Erinna Mettler considers in ''15 Minutes'' - no escaping it. Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that feature celebrity encounters told through the eyes of ordinarydemonised place, but no less compelling, charactersand that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191158636X</amazonuk>1789091500

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)Stibbe_Xmas|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the NorthAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=34.5|genre=Anthologies Humour|summary=A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliantChristmas – the time of traditional trauma. It's not one author's best short works, it's You only have to think about the turkey for that of – once upon a dozen. It's not from one snapshot in timeit was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, as some were written the year of publication and some in if that failed the 1960shair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. ItNowadays it's not from one tiny patch of authorall having to make sure it's desk or one set of laptop keys, suitably free-range and organic – but from the entire Nordic world, whether not too organic that be urban Scandinaviayou can go and visit it, the Faroes and other island groupsget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, or Greenland. That is of course also a world that's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testifytime of great boons. It's cash in hand for a world where new roads lot of plump people who can hire red suits and new building works mean beards, it was always a family living on godsend for postmen with all the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by other life by the endthank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and with as for the influence makers of centuries of folklore featuredMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, a lot more than that changes – sometimes it seems to be did they even try and sell them any other time of the characters' species…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Solomon0954899520|title=Taking WainuiA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating=25|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= This is Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the first time I have come across Laura Solomonsimplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness's workthat 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 adults as well as children…and that she had a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes feeling for both her fiction the natural world and poetry. Although this book appears to the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be a collection of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Steven1911115847|title=Winter TalesNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary= Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic ''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of twelve short stories centred by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around a common theme Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of Winterdarkness. You Danger stalks the shadows and people are taken around the world as you read stories set in killed for nothing more than a variety of places from Helsinki to New York, Germany to Russiawrong look. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises Kan writes with a key component of short vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories - that you can read each story in one sitting - to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such as bullying, ensuring that you are reading achieve a distinct story every time you open the bookglimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910674508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahl1529014484|title= FearExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating= 5|genre= Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spineOver the past twenty-chilling eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories chosen by Roald Dahl, these terrible tales of ghostly goingsmagnificent stories have won twenty-on will have seven major science fiction awards so if you shivering with fear as are a science fiction fan it is likely that you turn have already come across some of the pageswork by Ted Chiang. If you haven't then take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahl1794467440|title= WarWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories|summary=In war, are we This satisfying collection of short stories has a provenance at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring least as beguiling as the provenance of the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahlantique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he was fond of and had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead of mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's time as how he became a fighter pilot watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to the Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a fake, but the Second World War as well as seven other tales friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of conflict watches was not and strife, Dahl reveals the human side seed of our most inhumane activityan idea for a book was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahl1529006031|title= TrickeryReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors|rating= 4.5|genre= Short Stories|summary=How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals age]], I found that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of- it did not gel, and, sometimes, even ourselvesI don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. Here I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, among others, you'll read that show the benefits of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their marriageleast obvious, the light fingered hitchallegedly throw-hiker away pieces, and it's the grateful motorist, and discover why same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the serious poacher keeps whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a few sleeping pills hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in his arsenal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933232</amazonuk>mind could only provide for success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahl1846974658|title= InnocenceThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories|summary=What makes us innocent and how do we come On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl's boyhood end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and youth while I buy as well many second-hand escapist tales as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up. Among other storiesnext person, youwhat I'll read about m really looking for is the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her fatherlocal' – the cookbook maybe, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and maps definitely, but above all: the commuter who is horrified folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at schoolhunt, I can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanB077969HN8|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon

|genre=Short Stories |summary=Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I'm rather glad that I wondidn't be alone in stating that see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from A-Z, witnessing as I'm not normally a bounty fan of ideas and characters in short order can be too mucheither, but do you have I've come to two conclusions about the right to pick and choose according to book: what appeals, the publisher says is correct - and what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surely. Such would appear to be the case hereI really enjoyed it. The last time I read one of this authorcomedy is not ''too''s collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], black and the only real difficulty was holding back surrealism is gentle and rationing them, but here you not only get perhaps best described as a whopping forty pieces twist or flick of writing, they reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are also spread into sectionsgoing to be invaded in the nicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman9386897504|title=That Was a Shiver, Tales of Love and Other StoriesDisability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=3.54|genre=Short Stories |summary=This is I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which holds the ninth book reader and keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short stories by this author, which means heare all too easy to put down and forget after you's presented just as many collections ve read a couple of the short form as he has novelspieces. You will find it hard to think I've recently read a couple of another author that has been so noted for longer works (what with novellas by Laura Solomon - [[How Late It Was, How Late Marsha's Deal by James KelmanLaura Solomon|How Late It Was, How LateMarsha's Deal]] winning the Booker) but who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for the time-poor, or those like me who see the variety in a writerand [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's short or less typical works Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to be the more interesting places to turn. Opening these pages, from the pen of such see what she could do with an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipationeven shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Authors1986586898|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeGoing To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= In the opening story, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Change Is Gonna ComeGrey Day'' is an anthology owner struggles with the problem of stories and poems interpreting whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the theme ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of change by twelve BAME writers. ItH's Stripes Publishing's response , the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the under-representation yard of BAME authors John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the UK. And it's Grand National and considered a great responseno-hoper.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Helen Stancey|title= The Madonna In one of the Pool|rating= 3.5|genre= Short Stories|summary= In most short story collections, an overarching theme is usually present in each dramatic runnings of the narratives which help each story gently flow in to race, a pile-up occurred at the next23rd fence. In this debut collection Helen Stancey explores the quiet disappointmentsFoinavon, achievementswho had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and complications that each of us experience through everyday life. She draws attention galloped to the small events and decisions that can both disrupt and significantly alter line, winning the lives race at odds of others and ourselves, all while maintaining a delicately poetic tone throughout100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1912054000</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Walsh9386897296|title=Worlds from the WordHell's EndUnveiling|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this authorA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's fairly recent collection of short stories, [[Vertigo Deal by Joanna WalshLaura Solomon|VertigoMarsha's Deal]]and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. I myself missed outIt's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but that seemed the devil is not one to be vignettes from one charactertake defeat lying down. He's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a host more'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, as well as much less of the sadness prevalent beforeshe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Having had Daniel is framed for a brief encounter crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with this author courtesy Marsha. Then, of her entry into course, there are all the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, I was intrigued by her name being stamped on a selection other children who are not only targeted but - worst of shortsall - subverted to the devil's evil ends. Was it the ideal calling card? LetHe's face itout to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, the their self-esteem is very short story itself can be a postcard – let's sayfragile. This is no small-scale operation, from either - the devil has set up a specific hotel or twotraining complex on earth, as we see herecomplete with an elevator to Hell. Perhaps I should have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – and for the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips1979217440|title=Some Possible SolutionsMarsha's Deal|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=Picture a world where you, a new mother, move to a town where you slowly start to realise that every other woman seems a replica of you – dressing and doing as you do. Consider a place where you Marsha didn't have a perfect other half – most literally – but it's only to be found on an alien planet. Or how about the woman who suddenly finds she can see everything and everyone else alive as having no skin, just organs, tissue and bone as if everyone was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? A lot of these stories are hard to summarise without dropping into the voice of the ''Twilight Zone'' narration, but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples of this author's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of easy ride in life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cixin Liu|title= The Wandering Earth|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againfirst time around. One genre that has always She'd been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the short form is Sci-fiafflicted with [https://en. So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelwikipedia. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493<org/wiki/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Fleur Jaeggy and Gini Alhadeff (translator)|title= I Am The Brother Of XX|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''I Am The Brother of XX'' is a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggy, who expertly wields malevolence and spite throughout, from the evil done between husband and wife in ''The Aviary''Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a nasty tale rare disease which turned parts of Oedipal menace and vicious, although admittedly, artful cruelty, her body to senseless annihilation and immolation in ''The Heir''bone when they were damaged. Jaeggy also appears to have a particular fascination with religion Finally, from the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in ''The Visitor'' she was unable to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many of stand her stories. Family is also a recurrent theme; whether focused on the distance between siblings in the titular story, told from the point of view of a brother filled with longing life any longer and loneliness trying went to create a bond with his distant older sisterDignitas, or the primal need to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide''Swiss euthanasia clinic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malcolm Devlin|title= You Will Grow Into Them|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary= She''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on d thought that would be the nature of transition and change. The often grislyend, but after cremation, macabre her body went straight to hell and ghoulish nature of she found herself face-to-face with the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictivedevil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tove Jansson|title= Letters From Klara|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Famed in And that was when she made the UK for her creation of the Moomin family, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writingspact. For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort In exchange for details about some of books'' and Thomas Teal, those who has had been responsible for most of the translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem close to have missed one of the series, her - their strengths and secondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll weaknesses - she would be no more reborn on the same day to be had. The former will be rectified, the latter is a sad thoughtsame parents but would live her life free of disease.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lee Child|titleisbn= 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>}}{{newreview150690551X|title=A Fanfare of TalesRoses in December|author=Patrick C ReidyMatthew de Lacey Davidson

|summary=''Roses in December'' is a collection of twenty-two short stories. And when I love say short stories, so Imean 'm always happy when a new collection arrives for review. ''A Fanfare of Tales'' by Patrick C Reidy promises me short'', with each just a compilation few pages long and some brushing the flash fiction genre, such is the brevity. I think the shorter the story, the harder it is to write and the more difficult the task of short stories that highlight engaging, then satisfying, the reader. So it is to the adventures immense credit of diverse characters as each encounters unforeseen challenges''. Matthew de Lacey Davidson that I like this premisesighed in appreciation many times while reading. So how does He has a good sense of which moments of the human experience to capture in order to make the book shape up? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665983</amazonuk>point he wants to make. Some highlights:

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroOnymouse_Quick|title=Children of LuciferQuick and Quirky: Modesty BlaiseShort Stories with Quips!|author=Fred Onymouse and Ann Onymouse|rating=31.5|genre=Graphic Novels Short Stories|summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesQuick, and indeed, quirky, are positive attributes, I'm sure you'd agree – apart from perhaps in surgeons. I like things that have a quirk, the publication and I approve of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented quicky. I've been dabbling in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves world of creative writing for a few years now, and her great crime-solving mindwhenever anyone asks what it is I mostly write, and of course I define it with her Willie, this is the lastcatch-but-one chance for you to do soall safety net of ''flippant''. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you So this book should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>right up my street, being as it is a bijou selection of illustrated and fairly large-print short stories.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)Hill_Strange|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Strange Weather|author=Joe Hill|rating= 5|genre= CrimeShort Stories|summary=Consider the following scenario: Strange Weather is a policeman hears someone screaming collection of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and runs to a house on a particular streetcataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, number 13acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from where one sentence to the noise is emanatingnext. When he peeps through As Hill himself says ''the letterbox he discovers a dead man in beauty of 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 world and that the body and horror of the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished.world were twined together'', never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Rick BassDick_Electric|title= For a Little While|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''For a Little While'Philip K Dick' 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>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 25/1 -->|title=A Collection of Short Storiess Electric Dreams|author=Gillian Fletcher-EdwardsPhilip K Dick|rating=43

|summary=Marged Evans allowed a break-up with a lover to affect everything in her life. Osian wanted to invest Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present but Marged loved the than past. Since they drifted apart, MargedOn the big screen 's life has been careful, ordered, unadventurous. But then Osian sends her a Christmas card and everything changes. 'Blade Runner 2049'Marged Evans'' is relaunched the first Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and longest in this collection of on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories from Gillian Fletcher-Edwardsfor TV. ItStartlingly, Dick's almost a novella current relevance reaches beyond fiction and its initially slow pace sets off quite into the masterclass in how one event can throw everything into unexpected - but lovely - chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sybil Marshall factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and John Lawrence|title= The Book loss of English Folk Tales|rating= 4|genre= Anthologies|summary= From ghosts privacy to witches, to giants and fairies, ''The Book the increasing machination of English Folk Talessociety are all headline material in today'' is a fascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshalls news. Out of print for over three decades, this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and It is sure to capture the attention of as if half a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468313177</amazonuk>}}{{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 womancentury after their inception, we also encounter some of his most interesting cases. In fact thereDick's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yuleelectric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Telford and Louise VerityMettler_15|title=SinsFifteen Minutes|author=Erinna Mettler

|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them all shown to us, from school age Our world is obsessed with celebrity culture - 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 this advent of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the womansocial media, the husband)updates on celebrity come 24 hours a day, a clear set of rules delivered to obeyus on our televisions, our magazines, on our phones and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involvedour computers. WellIn focusing on these heightened and airbrushed lives though, this volume demands are we decide missing the answer to those questions as being positive ones, more interesting and if ithuman stories that are out there? That's not always definitive what Erinna Mettler considers in ''15 Minutes'' - short stories that feature celebrity encounters told through the writing here that there is something neweyes of ordinary, but no less compelling, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh..characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carys Bray and othersHodgkinson_Dark|title=How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This Sceptre collection does not have as simple a remit as it might appear; these are no straightforward love The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories. Instead, they each take one aspect of love – often one of the ancient Greek classifications – and provide a whole new way of thinking about it. After all, from the heart holds a lot of metaphorical weight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNorth|author=Helen Simpson|title=CockfostersSjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)|rating=3.5

|summary=This was a belated reunion for me, having been introduced to the A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. It's not one author's snappy best short story collections courtesy the very first one while at uni. Mindworks, it was 's that of a much more gentle dozen. It's not from one snapshot in time, as some were written the year of publication and placid reunion than some in the 1960s. It's not from one tiny patch of author's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic world, whether that starts this book – Julie be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and Philippa have had other island groups, or Greenland. That is a shopworld that's changing – as the Greenland-bought curry togetherborn author now living in Brooklyn, but have had to forsake and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testify. It's a cultural chat for world where new roads and new building works mean a trip haring along family living on the London Underground chasing after a pair edge of glasses one of them left behind. The piece is definitely about the subject forest at the beginning of ageing – about time passed and what might be remaining ahead – but you soon discover that not only do all the pieces here have titles that story are unadorned place namesbeing surrounded by other life by the end, but they all concern that very theme. Can anyone, let alone Helen Simpsonand with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, sustain such a vaguely morbid topic over a full collection?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470198X</amazonuk>lot more than that changes – sometimes it seems to be even the characters' species…