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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= WarAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahlshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you's time as re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a fighter pilot 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 Second World War as well as seven other tales feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of conflict it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activityprobabilities 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB0CDZRGT1M|title= TrickerySuper 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 are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How underhand could 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 be try to get what you wantdraw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? In these ten tales I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of dark and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals flash fiction but that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - andfor this collection, sometimes, even ourselvesauthor Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. Here, among others, youThat'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 s about a few sleeping pills single page in his arsenalyour average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roald DahlRachel Harrison|title= InnocenceBad Dolls|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories|summary=What makes us innocent It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and how do we come scaring myself half silly with them to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of Roald Dahlthe vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn's boyhood t have those jump scares, and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayedI didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors I found most of growing up. Among other that feeling came from the fact that these are storiesabout women, living normal lives, you'll read about the wager and that destroys a girl's faith at least in her fatherpart, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at schoolcoping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405933259</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanB0CCCVRSGX|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersStories 2|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories |summary=This is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories. There are thirteen in all and I wontook something from each of them. There isn't be alone in stating a single one that reading short story collections can doesn't deserve to be slightly awkwardamong the others or brings down the overall quality. Going through from A-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters in short order It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too muchaway, but do you have the right to so I'll just pick and choose according two to what appeals, talk about and what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surely. Such would appear to be the case here. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get think they give a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionsgeneral flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman1739593901|title=That Was a Shiver, 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Other StoriesStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories Science Fiction|summary=This is the ninth book ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of short stories by this authorflying cars, which means hewe got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I's presented just as many collections ve got a couple of the confessions to make. I'm not keen on short form stories as he has novelsI find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. You will find There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it hard to think of another author that has been so noted for longer works (what 's the technology which takes centre stage along with [[How Late the world-building. It Was, How Late by James Kelman|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning the Booker) but 's human beings who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for the time-poor, or those like fascinate me who see : the variety in a writer's short or less typical works to be technology and the more interesting places to turnworld scape are purely incidental. Opening these pagesSo, from the pen what did I think of a book of such an esteemed protwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, came with no small sense of anticipationI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various AuthorsB09XZMCDVF|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating= 54|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna Comenews vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'' is an anthology  This collection of thirteen short stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the under-representation of BAME authors in eclectic reader. Tying them together is the UKidea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And itthat ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's a great responsecoming next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Stancey1737030942|title= The Madonna of the PoolBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating= 3.54|genre= Short StoriesAnthologies|summary= In most short story collectionsSometimes, an overarching theme is usually present in each of the narratives which help each story gently flow in to the nextyou deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. In this debut collection Helen Stancey explores the quiet disappointmentsI first encountered his writing about a year ago, achievementswhen I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], and complications that each a rollicking tale of us experience through everyday lifewhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. She draws attention Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to the small events this anthology of verse and decisions that can both disrupt short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and significantly alter the lives so have his characters. Well... most of others and ourselves, all while maintaining a delicately poetic tone throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1912054000</amazonuk>them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Walsh1529418100|title=Worlds from the WordBruno's EndChallenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this authorI's fairly recent collection m not usually a fan of short stories, - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Vertigo by Joanna WalshMartin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|VertigoBruno Courreges Mysteries]]. I myself missed out, but that seemed so the temptation to be vignettes from one characterread ''Bruno's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators Challenge'' was hard to resist and a host more, as well as much less of the sadness prevalent beforeI'm rather glad that I didn't even try. Having had a brief encounter with this author courtesy of her entry into For those new to the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, I was intrigued by her name being stamped on a selection of shorts. Was it the ideal calling card? Letthere's face it, the very short story itself can be a postcard – letan excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's say, from a specific hotel or two, as we see here. Perhaps I should have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – who and for the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>background to why Bruno is in St Denis.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Helen PhillipsBrooke 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 Liberty 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=Some Possible SolutionsBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona

|summary=Picture ''If a world where youwoman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a new motherpampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, move more to a town where you slowly start the point, about to realise that every other woman seems a replica discover the real world of you – dressing bus timetables and doing as paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you do. ? Consider a place where you have a perfect other half – most literally – but itWe first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's only to be found on an alien planet. Or how about Wife in [[Sorting the woman who suddenly finds she can see everything Priorities: Ambassadress and everyone else alive as having no skin, just organs, tissue Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and bone as if everyone we learned what it was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? A lot of these stories are hard like to summarise without dropping into be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the voice time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of the Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled'Twilight Zone'' narrationrather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples has no intention of this author's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of lifeslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cixin LiuB08CHJLNBS|title= The Wandering EarthCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 53|genre= Science Women's Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of womenHe's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a stalwart supporter and encourager of partner at Wickham Jones, the short form is Sci-fiMayfair letting agents. So when you pick up a collection of SciShe's Emilia, twenty-fi shortsnine, you know that it will have just as much depth librarian and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelarchivist in the heritage library next door. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached Emilia has read [[The Secret by someone Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from China new age books like that, which – leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to be polite – has something a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much little deeper. Charles is more of the rest a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of the planet…and add his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that an author who is not only Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a bestnon-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>starter, isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fleur Jaeggy Marie O'Regan and Gini Alhadeff Paul Kane (translatoreditors)|title= I Am The Brother Of XXCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary=Curses. They''I Am The Brother of XX'' is a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggy, who expertly wields malevolence and spite re there throughout, from the evil done between husband and wife in ''The Aviary'', a nasty tale tales of Oedipal menace faery and vicious, although admittedly, artful crueltyother fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to senseless annihilation and immolation in ''The Heir''do that. Jaeggy also appears to have a particular fascination with religionChildren can be cursed, from as can princesses on the nun receiving a rather special sort verge of communion marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way there''The Visitor'' to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many of her storiess no escaping it. Family Which is also a recurrent why the theme; whether focused on the distance between siblings in the titular story, told from the point of view this book of short stories is such a brother filled with longing and loneliness trying standout – we may well think we know all there is to create a bond with his distant older sisterknow about this accursed character, that demonised place, or the primal need to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide'that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>1789091500

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malcolm DevlinStibbe_Xmas|title= You Will Grow Into ThemAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesHumour|summary=''Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You Will Grow Into Themonly 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' s suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a thrilling collection lot of ten short stories plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all centred on the nature 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 transition and change. The often grislyMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, macabre did they even try and ghoulish nature sell them any other time 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>year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tove Jansson0954899520|title= Letters From KlaraA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Famed in the UK for her creation of Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin familybooks, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather written in the richly deserved esteem for her adult writings. For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of books'' 1940s and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most later becoming television characters of the translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the seriessimplicity, naivety and secondly theresheer 'll come a time sooner rather than goodness' that would later when there'll be no more to be hadproduce flowerpot men or teletubbies. The former will be rectifiedSimple drawings, simple stories, the latter simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a sad thoughtserious 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1911115847|title= No Middle NameNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating= 4|genre= Crime Literary Fiction|summary= There ''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the collection of short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassstories by Toni Kan. This is particularly true, some say, The series of stories tell of the lives and I have been known to concur, lusts of an assortment of the crime characters living in and thriller genresaround Lagos, Nigeria. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with its very own up: I simply haven't been paying attentionheart of darkness. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child Danger stalks the shadows and publishers Bantam Press people are killed for putting me straight nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name to achieve a glimmer of ''Jack Reacher''hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=A Fanfare Exhalation |author=Ted 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 Talesthe 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=Watchwords |author=Patrick C ReidyPhilip Neal

|summary=I love This satisfying collection of short stories, so I'm always happy when has a provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of the antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a new collection arrives for reviewwatch. ''A Fanfare It was a watch he was fond of Tales'' by Patrick C Reidy promises me ''and had been told was like a compilation 1930s Cartier. Instead of short stories mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that highlight the adventures of diverse characters as each encounters unforeseen challenges''s how he became a watch collector. I like this premiseAn eBay purchase led him to the Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. So how does The eBay purchase was a fake, but the friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of watches was not and the seed of an idea for a book shape up? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665983</amazonuk>was born.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1529006031|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Short Stories|summary=Out 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 ninetyage]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-five diverse comic strip storiessake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the publication of perfect audience for this book leaves just the last three yet . I had every chance to be presented in enjoy these fabulous large format paperbacksshort stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crimeI've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-solving mindaway pieces, and of course it's the same with her Williefranchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do soobvious reasons). And if you have any interest in quick little action talesFor another thing, or even dated kitschthere 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 both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1846974658|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where the noise is emanating. When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers a dead man in the hallway with a knife in his throat. He goes to fetch help, but upon returning, finds that the street does not have a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael R Lane|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection of Short Stories|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=From stories of young people caught up in a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, to a believer in God having her faith shaken by the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating and clever short stories here. From farm to urban, from World War II to the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight the tender underbelly of the human condition in all its glory and despair on these varied stages of fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rick Bass|title= For a Little While|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''For a Little While'' is a collection of twenty-five short stories from Rick Bass. As someone previously unacquainted with Bass' work this new collection was a wonderful introduction to his quirky, unusual style which focuses on stripped back, simple fables featuring often mundane situations, mysterious characters and magical experiences. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted and the stories are dreamy, loose narratives covering everything from love to death to choices made and chances taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 25/1 -->|title=A Collection of Short StoriesLong Path To Wisdom|author=Gillian FletcherJan-EdwardsPhilipp Sendker

|summary=Marged Evans allowed On my travels around the world, I have a break-tendency to end up with a lover to affect everything in her life. Osian wanted to invest in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the present but Marged loved next person, what I'm really looking for is the past. Since they drifted apart, Marged's life has been carefullocal' – the cookbook maybe, orderedthe maps definitely, unadventurous. But then Osian sends her a Christmas card and everything changes. ''Marged Evans'' is but above all: the first and longest in this collection of short stories from Gillian Fletcher-Edwardsfolk tales. It If I ever get to Burma, I won's almost a novella and its initially slow pace sets off quite the masterclass in how one event t need to hunt, I can throw everything into unexpected - but lovely - chaosread before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662445</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sybil Marshall and John LawrenceB077969HN8|title= The Book of English Folk Tales|rating= 4|genre= Anthologies|summary= From ghosts to witches, to giants and fairies, ''The Book of English Folk Tales'' is a fascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Out of print for over three decades, this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and is sure to capture the attention of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468313177</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlternative Medicine|author=Shirley McKay|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Laura Solomon

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=A lot of crime happens Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen toosurrealism''. As we travel through 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, but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too'' black and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of his most interesting casesreality when you were least expecting it. In fact there's one Your comfort zones are going to match each of be invaded in the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yulenicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=9386897504|title=Mary Telford Tales of Love and Louise VerityDisability|titleauthor=SinsLaura Solomon

|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? WeI've seen them all shown to us, from school age always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and up talent to write a short story which holds the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school agereader and keeps them coming back for more. We can each recount them There are far too many collections of short stories which are all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably cantoo easy to put down and forget after you't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpve read a couple of pieces. Similarly, is there anything new in the world I've recently read a couple of fairy tale? We know the tropes novellas by Laura Solomon - characters identified [[Marsha's Deal by their status or gender (the woman, the husband), a clear set of rules to obey, Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involved. Well, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and if it[[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something newUnveiling]] and enjoyed them, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as freshso I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carys Bray and others1986586898|title=How Much the Heart Can HoldGoing To The Last: Seven Short Stories on LoveAbout Horse Racing|author=K D Knight|rating=34.5

|summary=This Sceptre collection does 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 Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not have to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as simple a remit as it might appear; these are 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 Grand National and considered a no straightforward love stories-hoper. Instead, they each take In one aspect of love – often one the most dramatic runnings of the ancient Greek classifications – and provide race, a whole new way of thinking about itpile-up occurred at the 23rd fence. After all Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the heart holds a lot race at odds of metaphorical weight100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Simpson9386897296|title=CockfostersHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=This was a belated reunion for me, having been introduced to the author's snappy short story collections courtesy the very first one A little while at uni. Mind, 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 together, but have had to forsake a cultural chat for a trip haring along the London Underground chasing after a pair of glasses one of them left behind. The piece is definitely about the subject 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 are unadorned place names, but they all concern that very theme. Can anyone, let alone Helen Simpson, sustain such a vaguely morbid topic over a full collection?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470198X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Beckler|title= The Road More Travelled: Tales of those seeking refuge|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary= ''The Road More Travelled'' is an anthology of short stories - and one poem - written in response to the refugee crisis as it exploded across our TV screens and newspapers throughout 2015. To the horror of the authors, the language used by many was aggressive and dehumanising, describing this mass of desperate people as a swarm or a horde. The stories together form a response to this othering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993147224</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ransom Riggs|title= Tales of the Peculiar|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control the currents of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories to be found in ''Tales of the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - a place familiar to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in ago I really enjoyed [[Miss PeregrineMarsha's Home for Peculiar Children Deal by Ransom RiggsLaura Solomon|Miss PeregrineMarsha's Home for Peculiar ChildrenDeal]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I'll Be Home For Christmas|author=Benjamin Zephaniah and Others|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced ''I'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers on the UK YA scene. The stories are connected was delighted by the theme of home. What does home mean opportunity to you? Is it your house, read the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things to different peoplesequel, can't it? The book opens with a powerful poem by Bookbag favourite, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship and fear, some warming the cockles of your heart. But all of them are about 'Hell'homes Unveiling''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rebecca Schiff|title= The Bed Moved|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories |summary= Rebecca Schiff It's collection probably not much of short stories was a revelation. It has everything I want from a collection: humour, (often of spoiler to say that Marsha bested the black variety), heartbreaking sadness, and moments of shocking clarity. These stories feel like the revealing of the inner workings of a young American womandevil in 's psyche. In fact, in the last short piece, entitled 'Marsha'Write What You Knows Deal'', it feels that but the narrator/author devil is telling us the experiences which have led not one to this collectiontake defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'I only know about parent death and sluttinessgoody two shoes'in Hell). Although a strong person, she tells us's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. She goes on Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to talk about her knowledge of Jewish people who are assimilated, liberal and sexual guilt, juvenile detention and I think it is no exaggeration refused permission to say that these are the underlying themes return to practically all of the stories herelive with Marsha.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147363184X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Van Booy|title= Tales of Accidental Genius|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary=A diverse Then, haunting and humorous collection of short fictioncourse, Simon Van Booy offers a collection there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of stories highlighting how human genius can emerge through acts of compassion. With characters ranging from an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney bodyguard, all - subverted to the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a divorced amateur magician and a Beijing street vendor, devil's evil ends. He'Tales of Accidental Genius'' takes the reader s out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with manyfoster children, incredible journeys, and conveys more in a few pages than many authors would struggle to do in a whole novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749716</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amnesty International|title= Here I Stand|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Every so often Amnesty International gets together a number of great authors and produces an anthology of writingtheir self-esteem is very fragile. This timeis no small-scale operation, they've done it for younger readers with ''Here I Stand''. Twentyeither -five contributions explore where we are with human rights in today's society: the sacrifices many made to win them; the sacrifices that still need to be made to spread them; howdevil has set up a training complex on earth, where and why these rights are under attack and how deep is the need complete with an elevator to defend themHell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635838X</amazonuk>