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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Davidson -->{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|B08CHJLNBS[[image:150690551X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/150690551X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Capturing Emilia| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Brooke Adams===[[Roses in December by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] ''Roses in December'' is a collection of twenty-two short stories. And when I say short, I mean ''short'', with each just a 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 engaging, then satisfying, the reader. So it is to the immense credit of Matthew de Lacey Davidson that I sighed in appreciation many times while reading. He has a good sense of which moments of the human experience to capture in order to make the point he wants to make. Some highlights: [[Roses in December by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Onymouse -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|3[[image:Onymouse_Quick.jpg|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788039122/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Women's Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-align: left;"|===[[Quick eight and Quirky: Short Stories with Quips! by Fred Onymouse and Ann Onymouse]]=== [[image:1.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Quick, and indeed, quirky, are positive attributes, I'm sure you'd agree – apart from perhaps in surgeons. I like things that have a quirkpartner at Wickham Jones, and I approve of the quickyMayfair letting agents. I She've been dabbling in the world of creative writing for a few years nows Emilia, and whenever anyone asks what it is I mostly write, I define it with the catchtwenty-all safety net of ''flippant''. So this book should be right up my streetnine, being as it is a bijou selection of illustrated librarian and fairly large-print short storiesarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[Quick and Quirky: Short Stories with Quips! The Secret by Fred Onymouse and Ann OnymouseRhonda Byrne|Full ReviewThe Secret]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill_Strange.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147322117X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147322117X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Strange Weather by Joe Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hillbut she's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching moved on from one sentence to the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and the horror of the world were twined together''new age books like that, never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty. [[Strange Weather by Joe Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat which leave you dependent on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure itsomeone else's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit itphilosophies, and get too friendly with it to want to eat itsomething a little deeper. Christmas, though, Charles is more of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas Personal by Nina StibbeLee Child|Full Review]] <!-- Dick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dick_Electric.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473223288?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473223288]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science FictionJack Reacher]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50sman himself, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are above all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dickhe's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick|Full Review]] <!-- Mettler -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mettler_15.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/191158636X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=191158636X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fifteen Minutes by Erinna Mettler]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Our world is obsessed with celebrity culture - and in this advent of social media, the updates on celebrity come 24 hours a day, delivered to us on our televisions, our magazines, on our phones and our computers. In focusing on these heightened and airbrushed lives though, are we missing the more interesting and human stories shocked that are out there? That's what Erinna Mettler considers in Emilia reads ''15 MinutesThe Guardian'' - short stories that feature celebrity encounters told through the eyes of ordinary, but no less compelling, characters. [[Fifteen Minutes by Erinna Mettler|Full Review]] <!-- Hodgkinson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hodgkinson_Dark.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273824/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. ItThey's re obviously not one author's best short worksat all compatible, it's that of a dozen. It's so why can Charles not from one snapshot in time, as some were written the year get this woman out of publication and some in the 1960s. Ithis mind? She's not from one tiny patch of authorhis usual type at all: it's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenlandobvious to his friends. That is a world And given thatEmilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's changing – as the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklynsuperficiality, and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testify. It's a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by other life by the end, and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes it seems why does she feel drawn to be even the characters' species… [[him? The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the North by Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)|Full Review]] <!-- Solomon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Solomon_Taking.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/8193409353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Taking Wainui by Laura Solomon]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] This is the first time I have come across Laura Solomonrelationship's work, obviously a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes for both her fiction and poetry. Although this book appears to be a collection of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusing. [[Taking Wainui by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!non-- STEVEN -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Steven_Winter.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910674508/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Winter Tales by Kenneth Steven]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Winter. You are taken around the world as you read stories set in a variety of places from Helsinki to New York, Germany to Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a key component of short 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 a distinct story every time you open the book. [[Winter Tales by Kenneth Steven|Full Review]] <!-- Dahl -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dahl_Fear.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1405933216/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fear by Roald Dahl]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahlstarter, these terrible tales of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn the pages. [[Fear by Roald Dahl|Full Review]] <!-- Dahl -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dahl_War.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1405933194?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1405933194]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[War by Roald Dahl]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahlisn's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity. [[War by Roald Dahl|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}  {{newreview|author= Roald Dahl|title= Trickery|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary=How underhand could you be to get what you wantt it? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - and, sometimes, even ourselves. Here, among others, you'll read of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks their marriage, the light fingered hitch-hiker and the grateful motorist, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roald DahlMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title= InnocenceCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary=What makes us innocent Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and how other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do we come this, or not to be able to lose it? Featuring do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the autobiographical stories telling verge of Roald Dahlmarrying, and older people too. It seems in a way there's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales no escaping it. Which is why the theme of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors this book of growing up. Among other short storiesis such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her fatherdemonised place, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at schoolother bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405933259</amazonuk>1789091500

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanStibbe_Xmas|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|genre=Short Stories Humour|summary=I wonChristmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it't be alone in stating s suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that reading short story collections you can be slightly awkwardgo and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Going through from A-ZChristmas, though, witnessing is of course also a bounty time of ideas and characters great boons. It's cash in short order hand for a lot of plump people who can be too muchhire red suits and beards, but do it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you have the right letters to pick aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and choose according to what appealsas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and what sell them any other time you have to fillof the year? The sequence has carefully been considered}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, surelysimple goodness. Such would appear to 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 feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1911115847|title=Nights of the case hereCreaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The last time I read one series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this author's collectionscollection, is imbued with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the only real difficulty was holding back shadows and people are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and rationing them, but here you not only get passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a whopping forty pieces glimmer of writing, they are also spread into sectionshope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=Exhalation |author=James KelmanTed Chiang|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Over the past twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. If you haven't then take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1794467440|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating=3.54|genre=Short Stories |summary=This is the ninth book satisfying collection of short stories by this author, which means he's presented just has a provenance at least as beguiling as many collections the provenance of the short form as antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he has novels. You will find it hard to think was fond of another author that has and had been so noted for longer works (what with [[How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning the Booker) but who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for the time-poor, or those told was like me who see the variety in a writer1930s Cartier. Instead of mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's short or less typical works how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to be the more interesting places to turnAntique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. Opening these pagesThe eBay purchase was a fake, from but the friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of watches was not and the pen seed of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipationidea for a book was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529006031|title=Return to Wonderland

|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= In 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 age]], I found that I didn'A Change Is Gonna Comet really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don'' is an anthology of 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 enjoy these short stories and poems interpreting that come at the core from a tangent, that show the theme benefits of change by twelve BAME writersthe oblique glance. It I've always preferred coming to an author's Stripes Publishingoutput through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And itsame with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a great responsehunch, for obvious reasons).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk> 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 mind could only provide for success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Stancey1846974658|title= The Madonna of Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the Poolfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B077969HN8|title=Alternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon|rating= 34.5|genre= Short Stories|summary= In most Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short story collectionsstories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of either, an overarching theme 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'' black and the surrealism is usually present gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in each the nicest possible way.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=9386897504|title=Tales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=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 narratives reader and keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short stories which help each are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple of pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas 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 an even shorter form. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1986586898|title=Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=In the opening story gently flow , 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 Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the nextground is against him. In this debut collection Helen Stancey explores My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the quiet disappointments, achievements, and complications that each story of us experience through everyday lifeFoinavon. She draws attention H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the small events Grand National and decisions that can both disrupt and significantly alter considered a no-hoper. In one of the lives most dramatic runnings of others and ourselvesthe race, all while maintaining a delicately poetic tone throughoutpile-up occurred at the 23rd fence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1912054000< Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.

{{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 youMarsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a new motherrare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally, move she was unable to a town where you slowly start stand her life any longer and went to realise that every other woman seems a replica of you – dressing and doing as you doDignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. Consider a place where you have a perfect other half – most literally – but itShe's only to d thought that would 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 skinend, just organsbut after cremation, tissue her body went straight to hell and bone as if everyone she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? when she made the pact. A lot In exchange for details about some of these stories are hard those who had been close to summarise without dropping into her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the voice of same day to the ''Twilight Zone'' narration, same parents but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples would live her life free of this author's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of lifedisease.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cixin Liu150690551X|title= The Wandering EarthRoses in December|author=Matthew de Lacey Davidson|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionShort Stories|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as ''Roses in December'' is a form had been relegated to the pages collection of womentwenty-two short stories. And when I say short, I mean ''short's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been ', with each just a stalwart supporter few pages long and encourager of some brushing the short form flash fiction genre, such is Sci-fithe brevity. So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shortsI think the shorter the story, you know that the harder it will have just as much depth is to write and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelthe more difficult the task of engaging, then satisfying, the reader. Add So it is to that the intrigue immense credit of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – Matthew de Lacey Davidson that I sighed in appreciation many times while reading. He has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much good sense of the rest which moments of the planet…and add human experience to that an author who is not only a best-seller capture in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever order to win make the Hugo Award…this has got point he wants to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>make. Some highlights:

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Onymouse_Quick|title= Fleur Jaeggy Quick and Gini Alhadeff (translator)Quirky: Short Stories with Quips!|titleauthor= I Am The Brother Of XXFred Onymouse and Ann Onymouse|rating= 41.5|genre= Short Stories|summary=Quick, and indeed, quirky, are positive attributes, I'm sure you'd agree – apart from perhaps in surgeons. I Am The Brother like things that have a quirk, and I approve of XXthe quicky. I'' is ve been dabbling in the world of creative writing for a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggyfew years now, who expertly wields malevolence and spite throughoutwhenever anyone asks what it is I mostly write, from I define it with the evil done between husband and wife in catch-all safety net of ''The Aviaryflippant''. So this book should be right up my street, being as it is a nasty tale bijou selection of Oedipal menace illustrated and viciousfairly large-print short stories. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hill_Strange|title=Strange Weather|author=Joe Hill|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Strange Weather is a collection of four short novels all linked by, although admittedlyunsurprisingly, artful crueltystrange and cataclysmic weather. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence to senseless annihilation the next. As Hill himself says ''the beauty of the world and immolation in the horror of the world were twined together''The Heir, never is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beauty.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Dick_Electric|title=Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams|author=Philip K Dick|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. Jaeggy also appears to have a particular fascination with religion, from On the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in big screen ''The VisitorBlade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many reviews of her stories. Family is also a recurrent themepure praise; whether focused and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the distance between siblings in author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the titular story, told factual: his topics from the point of view intrusive advertising and loss of a brother filled with longing and loneliness trying privacy to create a bond with his distant older sister, or the primal need to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless increasing machination of the cost society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick'Adelaide''s electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>