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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Helen PhillipsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some Possible Solutionsare poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a 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 book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperback.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Harrison|title=Bad Dolls

|summary=Picture It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a world where youcouple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a new mother, move boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to a town where you slowly start to realise the point that every other woman seems a replica I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of you – dressing the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and doing as you do. Consider a place where you I didn't have a perfect other half – most literally – but to read it's during daylight hours 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 organsBut it is creepy, tissue and bone as if everyone was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? A lot I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories are hard to summarise without dropping into the voice of the ''Twilight Zone'' narrationabout women, living normal lives, but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples of this author's unsettling look and that at least in part, the bizarre elements of lifehorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 again. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the short form is Sci-fi. 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 novel. 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</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Fleur Jaeggy and Gini Alhadeff (translator)B0CCCVRSGX|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'', a nasty tale of Oedipal menace and vicious, although admittedly, artful cruelty, to senseless annihilation and immolation in ''The Heir''. Jaeggy also appears to have a particular fascination with religion, from the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in ''The Visitor'' to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many of 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 and loneliness trying to create a bond with his distant older sister, or the primal need to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malcolm Devlin|title= You Will Grow Into Them|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|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>}}{{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>}}{{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>}}{{newreview|title=A Fanfare of Tales2|author=Patrick C ReidyRichard F Walker

|summary=I love This is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories, so . There are thirteen in all and Itook something from each of them. There isn'm always happy when t a new collection arrives for single one that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down the overall quality. It can be tricky to 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'without giving too much away, so I'. ll just pick two to talk about and I like this premisethink they give a general flavour. So how does the book shape up? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665983</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1739593901|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels Science Fiction|summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to ''Our future will be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksmore complex than we expected. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crimeInstead of flying cars, we got night-solving mind, vision killer drones and of course automated elderly care with her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you geolocation surveillance bracelets to do sotrack grandma. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Edwards (editor)|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: I've got a policeman hears someone screaming and runs couple of confessions to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where the noise is emanatingmake. 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 I'm not have a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael R Lane|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection of Short Stories|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=From keen on short stories of young people caught up in a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, as I find it easy to read a believer in God having her faith shaken by the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating few stories and clever short stories here. From farm then forget to urban, from World War II return to the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events in book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there'UFOs and God's science fiction: far too often it' spotlight s the tender underbelly of technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human condition in all its glory beings who fascinate me: the technology and despair on these varied stages the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rick Bass|title= For a Little While|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''For a Little While'' is a collection book of twenty-five two science fiction 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? Well, mysterious characters and magical experiencesI loved it. 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 -->Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=A Collection of Short Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Gillian Fletcher-EdwardsRichard F Walker

|summary=Marged Evans allowed ''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a break-up wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a lover stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to affect everything in her life. Osian wanted correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to invest have around in a lawless village; the present but Marged loved new boy on the past. Since they drifted apartpub football team is very useful with his feet, Margedand awfully familiar…''s life  This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has been carefula lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strange, orderedeven miraculous, unadventurousthings can happen to ordinary people. But then Osian sends her a Christmas card and everything changesAnd that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. ''Marged Evans'' is the first Form and longest in tone varies so this collection little treasury of short stories from Gillian Fletcher-Edwards. Itfiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what'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 - chaoscoming next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662445</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence1737030942|title= The Book of English Folk TalesBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating= 4

|summary= From ghosts to witchesSometimes, to giants you deserve a treat and fairies, mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'The Book of English Folk TalesGoodies'' is . I first encountered his writing about a fascinating collection of stories retold year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Out Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of print what happens when five young men find a base for over three decadestheir partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and is sure to capture the attention so have his characters. Well... most of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468313177</amazonuk>them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529418100|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 thereBruno's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas Challenge and Yule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOther Dordogne Tales|author=Mary Telford and Louise Verity|title=SinsMartin Walker

|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? WeI've seen them m not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all shown too easy to us, from school age put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to the movie read ''Bruno'Se7ens Challenge'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown hard to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably canresist and I'm rather glad that I didn't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpeven try. Similarly, is there anything For those 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. Wellseries, this volume demands we decide the answer there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to those questions as being positive ones, and if itknow about who's not always definitive in who and the writing here that there background to why Bruno is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh.St Denis..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Carys Bray Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty-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. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and othersLiberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on LoveBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|rating=3.54

|summary=This Sceptre collection does not have as simple ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a remit as it might appear; these are no straightforward love stories. InsteadRottweiler in lipstick, they each take one aspect an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of love – often one carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the ancient Greek classifications – Priorities: Ambassadress and provide a whole new way Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of thinking about itFormer Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. After all Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, the heart holds a lot has no intention of metaphorical weightslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SimpsonB08CHJLNBS|title=CockfostersCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=This was He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a belated reunion for mepartner at Wickham Jones, having been introduced to the authorMayfair letting agents. She's snappy short story collections courtesy Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the very first one while at uniheritage library next door. MindEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, it was a much more gentle and placid reunion than the one that starts this book – Julie and Philippa have had a shop-bought curry togetherwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, but have had to forsake something a cultural chat for a trip haring along the London Underground chasing after a pair of glasses one of them left behindlittle deeper. The piece Charles is definitely about the subject more of ageing – about time passed and what might be remaining ahead – a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but you soon discover , above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not only do at all the pieces here have titles that are unadorned place namescompatible, but they so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all concern that very theme: it's obvious to his friends. Can anyoneAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, let alone Helen Simpsonwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, sustain such a vaguely morbid topic over a full collectionisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470198X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BecklerMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title= The Road More TravelledCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales of those seeking refuge|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary= Curses. They''The Road More Travelled'' is an anthology re there throughout tales of short stories - faery and one poem - written in response other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to the refugee crisis do that. Children can be cursed, as it exploded across our TV screens and newspapers throughout 2015. To can princesses on the horror verge of the authorsmarrying, the language used by many was aggressive and dehumanising, describing this mass of desperate older people as too. It seems in a swarm or a hordeway there's no escaping it. The Which is why the theme of this book of short stories together form is such a response standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this otheringaccursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993147224</amazonuk>1789091500

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ransom RiggsStibbe_Xmas|title= Tales of the PeculiarAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensHumour|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control Christmas – the currents time of the seatraditional trauma. Cannibals who feast on You only have to think about the limbs of turkey for that – once upon a village of peculiars. These are just a few of time it was leaving it sat on the brilliant stories downstairs loo to be found in ''Tales of defrost overnight, and if that failed the Peculiarhair-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, all and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - course also a place familiar to many time of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrinegreat boons. It's Home cash in hand for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for Peculiar Children]]. The stories postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in this collection explore peculiar history long-hand as a child, and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative wayas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each sell them any other time of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=I'll Be Home For ChristmasA Winter Book|author=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersTove Jansson

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced ''ITove Jansson'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers s worldwide fame lasts on the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by Moomin books, written in the theme 1940s and later becoming television characters of home. What does home mean to you? Is it your house, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things to different peoplesimplicity, cannaivety and sheer 't it? The book opens with a powerful poem by Bookbag favouritegoodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, Benjamin Zephaniahsimple goodness. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales What is often forgotten outside of hardship 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 fear, some warming the cockles simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of your heart. But all of them are about ''home''how the world might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Schiff1911115847|title= The Nights of the Creaking Bed Moved|author=Toni Kan|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary= Rebecca Schiff's 'Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories was a revelationby Toni Kan. It has everything I want from a collection: humour, (often The series of stories tell of the black variety), heartbreaking sadness, lives and moments lusts of shocking clarity. These stories feel like the revealing an assortment of the inner workings of a young American woman's psychecharacters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. In factNigeria, in the last short piecethis collection, entitled ''Write What You Know'', it feels that the narrator/author is telling us imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the experiences which have led to this collection. ''I only know about parent death shadows and sluttiness', she tells us. She goes on to talk about her knowledge of Jewish people who are assimilated, liberal killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and sexual guilt, and I think it is no exaggeration to say passion that allows these are the underlying themes cynical stories to practically all achieve a glimmer of the stories herehope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147363184X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Van Booy1529014484|title= Tales of Accidental GeniusExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating= 5|genre= Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=A diverseOver the past twenty-eight years, haunting and humorous collection of Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction, Simon Van Booy offers awards so if you are a collection science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of stories highlighting how human genius can emerge through acts of compassionthe work by Ted Chiang. With characters ranging from an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney bodyguard, the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a divorced amateur magician and a Beijing street vendor, If you haven''Tales of Accidental Genius'' takes the reader on many, incredible journeys, and conveys more in a few pages than many authors would struggle t then take this opportunity to do in a whole novelso now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749716</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amnesty International1794467440|title= Here I StandWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating= 54|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= Every so often Amnesty International gets together This satisfying collection of short stories has a number provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of the antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he was fond of great authors and produces an anthology had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead of writing. This timemourning its loss, they've done he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it for younger readers with ''Here I Stand''. Twenty-five contributions explore where we are with human rights in todayAnd that's society: how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to the sacrifices many made to win them; Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a fake, but the sacrifices friendship that still need to be made to spread them; how, where grew between the buyer and why these rights are under attack the repairer of watches was not and how deep is the need to defend themseed of an idea for a book was born. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635838X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Metcalfe1529006031|title= Blind Water Pass and other storiesReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors|rating= 4.5|genre= Short Stories|summary= Anna MetcalfeIn following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's debut collection Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of short stories is a treasure trove age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of language, cultures-it did not gel, and beautifully written proseI don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. The I had every chance to enjoy these short stories are bound together with that come at the core from a loose theme tangent, that show the benefits of communicationthe oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, or miscommunicationallegedly throw-away pieces, across characters and culturesit's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, and the narrators for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of these stories are as different as human beings themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473631815</amazonuk>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= Wendy Brandmark1846974658|title= He Runs the MoonThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating= 3.54|genre= Short Stories |summary= This is On my travels around the first time world, I had read have a tendency to end up in any of Wendy Brandmark's fictionbookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I was intrigued at buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the theme of next person, what I'm really looking for is the stories. She sets out writing short stories about different cities in 'local' – the UScookbook maybe, Denver, Bronx, New York, Cambridge and Bostonthe maps definitely, but also weaves in setting above all: the stories in different erasfolk tales. So we have a collection of stories ranging from the 1950If I ever get to Burma, I won's t need to the 1970'shunt, I can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Birgul OguzB077969HN8|title= HahAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary FictionShort 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 was interested to receive didn't see this book for review until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I knew it was written in a modern, interesting style, being effectively 'm not normally a collection fan of short storieseither, but appearing more in a novel structure. I was, however, rather disappointed with 've come to two conclusions about the book. Whilst it does have some very fine examples of prose writing within : what the stories, publisher says is correct - and I felt disconnected from the narrator, who is the daughter of a recently deceased man who was involved in a Turkish military coup in 1980really enjoyed it. There The comedy is therefore a lot of examples of the narrator relating the conversations they had shared regarding not ''revolutiontoo'', black and the way this had affected the daughter's upbringing surrealism is gentle and childhoodperhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. Another 'story' then delves into a seemingly disconnected wander through the town, whereby we see the narrator working at gutting fish, and talking about a man she finds repulsive, but who appears Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in love with herthe nicest possible way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chuck Palahniuk9386897504|title=Make Something UpTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=54|genre=Short Stories |summary=What are we to make of I've always believed that subtitleless-seeming writing on the front cover – ''stories you can't unread''? Does that not apply to all good fiction? Clearly able writers produce longer books: it is here due to the reputation takes a great deal of the author, skill and the baggage his name brings talent to write a short story which holds the page. We'd expect a dramatic approach from anything Palahniuk writes, reader and an added frisson, an extra layer, from which we might be forced to shrink keeps them coming backfor more. But a lot There are far too many collections of the contents don't quite go that far. Yes, things short stories which are dramatic, when society starts attaching defibrillators all too easy to itself, to create the perfect, simple, care- (put down and forget after you''The Price is Right''-, and Kardashian-) free happinessve read a couple of pieces. A man buys I've recently read a horse for his daughter – but boy is it the wrong horse to buy. A man falls in love – yes, sometimes the plot summaries couple of these stories really are better off for being short (speaking of which, don't turn to the threenovellas by Laura Solomon -page entrant here as a taster, it[[Marsha'll put you off s Deal by dint of being, almost uniquely here, a nothing story). A call centre worker can't convince people heLaura Solomon|Marsha's on the level Deal]] and even in their country – until someone starts riffing back to him. A housing estate report conveys bad regulation violations, but not as bad as the happenings at a [[Hell'Burning Mans Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell'-styled festivals Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, in a very clever couple of tales. But many too are the instances where that extra step has been takenso I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587688</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1986586898|title=Murder at the ManorGoing To The Last: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=I'm not big on short storiesIn the opening story, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but two factors nudged me towards this bookcomes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. Firstly, itIn ''A Grey Day''s broadly golden age crime, one an owner struggles with the problem of my weaknesses and secondly, whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the editor ground is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a man whose knowledge against him. My favourite was ''The Story of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and heH''s done us proud, not only with his selection, but with the half-page biographies story of the writers, which precede each storyFoinavon. There's just enough there H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to allow you please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to place the author yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and to direct you to other works if you're temptedconsidered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile-up occurred at the 23rd fence. It's an elegant selectionFoinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, from cleared the well known fence and galloped to the less well knownline, all set in and around winning the country houserace at odds of 100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Abercrombie9386897296|title=Sharp EndsHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyShort Stories|summary=A little while ago I often feel that short stories are an indulgence on really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the part sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the authordevil in ''Marsha's Deal'', they get but the devil is not one to write take defeat lying down . He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a lot of their ideas that don't really fit into goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a larger storystrong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. The stop/start nature of them never sits well with me, just as I am starting Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to get return to know a character they are gonelive with Marsha. One way Then, of solving this would be course, there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore the pastdevil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, or the futuretheir self-esteem is very fragile. That sounds great for This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a fantraining complex on earth, but how do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>complete with an elevator to Hell.