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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Joe HillAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Strange WeatherAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Horror Science Fiction|summary= Strange Weather ''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 collection few decades of four short novels all linked by, unsurprisingly, strange and cataclysmic weathertechnology in my lifetime. Each novel is distinct and showcases Hill I've kept up reasonably well with what's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events and makes them bitingly, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautiful, often switching from one sentence advantageous to me but I'm left with the nextfeeling that it's all getting away from me. As Hill himself says ''the beauty Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the world possibilities and the horror of the world were twined togetherprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they', never is this truer than re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautya way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nina StibbeB0CDZRGT1M|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch

|genre=Humour Short Stories|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon ''Got a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo minute to defrost overnightbe amused, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays itentertained, or challenged?'''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 itThese 100 stories are super short. Christmas, though, None is of course also more than 300 words. You can read one in a time of great boonsflash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short. It's cash in hand for ' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a lot flavour of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you letters try to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write draw out themes from all the flash fictions in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers book of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time ? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of the year?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241309824</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip K DickRachel Harrison|title= Philip K Dick's Electric DreamsBad Dolls|rating= 34|genre= Science FictionShort Stories|summary= Philip K DickIt's stories were originally published in 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 scaring myself half silly with them to the 50s, but they are more present than past. On point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the big screen vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn'Blade Runner 2049t like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic t have to reviews read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted that feeling came from the author's short fact that these are stories for TV. Startlinglyabout women, living normal lives, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into that at least in part, the factual: his topics horrors arises from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is very normal situations such as if half a century after their inceptionbreakup, trying a new dieting app, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realitygoing to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erinna MettlerB0CCCVRSGX|title= Fifteen MinutesStories 2|author=Richard F Walker|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=Our world This is obsessed with celebrity culture - and in this advent Richard F Walker's second volume 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 computersshort stories. In focusing on these heightened and airbrushed lives though, There are we missing the more interesting thirteen in all and human stories I took something from each of them. There isn't a single one that are out there? Thatdoesn's what Erinna Mettler considers in ''15 Minutes'' - t deserve to be among the others or brings down the overall quality. It can be tricky to review short stories that feature celebrity encounters told through the eyes of ordinarywithout giving too much away, but no less compelling, charactersso I'll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a general flavour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191158636X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and other stories from the NorthStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35|genre=Anthologies Science Fiction|summary=A compilation like this should ''Our future will be nigh on brilliantmore complex than we expected. ItInstead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'s not one author's best short works, it I's that ve got a couple of a dozenconfessions to make. ItI's m not from one snapshot in time, keen on short stories as some were written the year of publication I find it easy to read a few stories and some in then forget to return to the 1960sbook. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. ItThen there's not from one tiny patch of authorscience fiction: far too often it's desk or one set of laptop keys, but from the entire Nordic technology which takes centre stage along with the world, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes and other island groups, or Greenland-building. That is a world thatIt's changing – as human beings who fascinate me: the Greenland-born author now living in Brooklyn, technology and the Iraqi blood on these pagesworld scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, testifyI loved it. It}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=''s a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the edge middle of the forest at 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 beginning of ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the story are being surrounded by other life by new boy on the endpub football team is very useful with his feet, and with the influence awfully familiar…'' This collection of centuries of folklore featured, thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot more than to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that changes – sometimes it seems remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to be even the charactersordinary people. And that 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' species…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>s coming next.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Solomon1737030942|title=Taking WainuiBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=24|genre=General FictionAnthologies|summary= This is the Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first time encountered his writing about a year ago, when I have come across Laura Solomon's workread his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for both her fiction and poetrytheir partying. Although Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this book appears to be a collection anthology of verse and short stories, I found its format somewhat confusing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk> Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Steven1529418100|title=Winter Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker

|summary= Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection I'm not usually a fan of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Winter. You are taken around - I find it all too easy to put the world as you read book down between stories set in and forget to pick it up again - but I am a variety fan of places from Helsinki Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to New York, Germany read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to Russiaresist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a key component of short stories - that you can read each story in one sitting - For those new to his advantage as he gives each story the series, there's an individual focal subject, such as bullying, ensuring excellent introduction that will tell you are reading a distinct story every time all you open need to know about who's who and the bookbackground to why Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910674508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB08NF79QXT|title= FearCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 53|genre= Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=Do you enjoy being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spineThirty-one-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahlyear old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, these terrible tales of ghostly goingsthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins -on will have you shivering the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with fear as her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you turn the pagescan 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB08KKQ85FN|title= WarBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories|summary=In war''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, are we at our heroic best an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or our cowardly worst, 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? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and 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 as a fighter pilot has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict situation and strifetheir dog, Beagle, Dahl reveals the human side has no intention of our most inhumane activityslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald DahlB08CHJLNBS|title= TrickeryCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating= 53|genre= Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals that we are a partner at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty- nine, librarian andarchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, sometimeswhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, even ourselvesto something a little deeper. Here Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, among othersbut, youabove all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They'll read re obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of the married couple and the parting gift which rocks their marriagehis mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, the light fingered hitchwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-hiker and the grateful motoriststarter, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933232</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{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 won't be alone in stating 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 on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwardfailed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Going through from ANowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas range and characters in short order can be organic – but not too much, but do organic that you have the right to pick can go and choose according to what appealsvisit it, and what time you have get too friendly with it to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surely. Such would appear want to be the case hereeat it. The last Christmas, though, is of course also a time I read one of this authorgreat boons. It's collectionscash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], all the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you not only get write out in long-hand as a whopping forty pieces child, and as for the makers of writingMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they are also spread into sections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>even try and sell them any other time of the year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman0954899520|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary=This is Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the ninth book 1940s and later becoming television characters of short the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories by this author, which means he's presented just simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as many collections of the short form well as he has novels. You will find it hard to think of another author children…and that has been so noted she had a feeling 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 natural world and the timesimple life that not only informed those child-poor, or those like me who see trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the variety in a writer's short or less typical works to world might be the more interesting places to turn. Opening these pages, from the pen of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Authors1911115847|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating= 54|genre= TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna ComeNights of the Creaking Bed'' is an anthology a collection of short stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writersToni Kan. It's Stripes Publishing's response to The series of stories tell of the under-representation lives and lusts of BAME authors an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the UKshadows and people are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. And it's Kan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a great responseglimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Stancey1529014484|title= The Madonna of the PoolExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating= 3.5|genre= Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary= In most Over the past twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short story collectionsstories, an overarching theme these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is usually present in each likely that you have already come across some of the narratives which help each story gently flow in to the nextwork by Ted Chiang. In If you haven't then take this debut collection Helen Stancey explores the quiet disappointments, achievements, and complications that each of us experience through everyday lifeopportunity to do so now. She draws attention to the small events and decisions that can both disrupt and significantly alter the lives of others and ourselves, all while maintaining a delicately poetic tone throughoutTrust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1912054000</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Walsh1794467440|title=Worlds from the Word's EndWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating=3.54

|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this author's fairly recent This satisfying collection of short stories, [[Vertigo by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]. I myself missed out, but that seemed to be vignettes from one character's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators and has a host more, provenance at least as well beguiling as much less the provenance of the sadness prevalent beforeantique watches that inspired it. Having had  Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a brief encounter with this author courtesy watch he was fond of her entry into the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, I and had been told was intrigued by her name being stamped on like a selection 1930s Cartier. Instead of shortsmourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. Was it the ideal calling card? LetAnd that's face it, how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to the very short story itself can be Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a postcard – let's sayfake, from but the friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of watches was not and the seed of an idea for a specific hotel or two, as we see herebook was born. 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 Phillips1529006031|title=Some Possible SolutionsReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors|rating=4.5

|summary=Picture In following a world where you, young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a new motherfew years ago, move to a town where you slowly start to realise that every other woman seems a replica of you – dressing and doing as you do. Consider a place where you have a perfect other half – most literally – but it's only to be found on an alien planet. Or how about when the woman who suddenly finds first book she can see everything and everyone else alive as having no skin, just organs, tissue and bone as if everyone was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? A lot of these stories are hard to summarise without dropping into the voice of the ''Twilight Zone'' narration, but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples of this authorin [[Alice's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cixin Liu|title= The Wandering Earth|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines Adventures in Wonderland (no disrespect150th Anniversary Edition) – think again. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter by Lewis Carroll and encourager Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of the short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shortsage]], you know I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that The wacky-for-the intrigue -sake-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 it did 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|author= Fleur Jaeggy gel, and Gini Alhadeff (translator)|title= I Am The Brother Of XX|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''I Am The Brother of XXdon'' is t remember loving it more as a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggy, who expertly wields malevolence and spite throughout, from child. But I would suggest I am 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''perfect audience for this book. Jaeggy also appears I had every chance 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 enjoy these short stories. Family is also a recurrent theme; whether focused on the distance between siblings in that come at the titular story, told core from the point of view of a brother filled with longing and loneliness trying to create a bond with his distant older sistertangent, or the primal need to protect that show the bond between mother and son, regardless benefits of the cost in oblique glance. I''Adelaide''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|ve always preferred coming to an 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 grislys output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, macabre and ghoulish nature of the stories included in Devlinit'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 same with franchises – I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of books'' and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible d more likely go for most of the translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the series, and secondly thereBree Tanner'll come a time sooner rather s short novella than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former will be rectified, the latter is whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lee Child|title= No Middle Name|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theoryhunch, 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 grassfor obvious reasons). This is particularly trueFor another thing, there was every reason to expect some saykind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can surely pieces written with that love in mind could 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 provide 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>success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846974658|title=A Fanfare of TalesThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Patrick C ReidyJan-Philipp Sendker

|summary=On my travels around the world, I love short storieshave a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, so and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm always happy when a new collection arrives really looking for review. is the 'local'A Fanfare of Tales'' by Patrick C Reidy promises me ''a compilation of short stories that highlight – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the adventures of diverse characters as each encounters unforeseen challengesfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won''. t need to hunt, I can read before I like this premisego. So how does the book shape up? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665983</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroB077969HN8|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Short Stories|summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories, the publication in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbackssurrealism''. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of course with her Willieeither, this is the last-but-one chance for you I've come to do so. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Edwards (editor)|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider two conclusions about the following scenariobook: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where what the noise publisher says is emanatingcorrect - and I really enjoyed it. When he peeps through The comedy is not ''too'' black and the letterbox he discovers surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a dead man in the hallway with a knife in his throattwist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. He goes Your comfort zones are going to fetch help, but upon returning, finds that be invaded in the street does not have a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished..nicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael R Lane9386897504|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection Tales 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 Love 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 StoriesDisability|author=Gillian Fletcher-EdwardsLaura Solomon

|summary=Marged Evans allowed a breakI've always believed that less-up with able writers produce longer books: it takes a lover great deal of skill and talent to affect everything in her lifewrite a short story which holds the reader and keeps them coming back for more. Osian wanted There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to invest in the present but Marged loved the past. Since they drifted apart, Margedput down and forget after you's life has been careful, ordered, unadventurous. But then Osian sends her ve read a Christmas card and everything changescouple of pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha'Marged Evanss Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell' is the first and longest in this collection of short stories from Gillian Fletcher-Edwards. Its Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's almost a novella Unveiling]] and its initially slow pace sets off quite the masterclass in how one event can throw everything into unexpected - but lovely - chaosenjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662445</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence1986586898|title= Going To 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>}}{{newreviewLast: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=Shirley McKay|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)K D Knight

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=In the opening story, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A lot Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore whether or not to run his horse in the life Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen tooFoinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. As we travel through After changing hands on various occasions he came to the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in law Giles the Grand National and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting casesconsidered a no-hoper. In fact there's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemasmost dramatic runnings of the race, Whitsuna pile-up occurred at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, Lammaswho had been many lengths adrift, Martinmas cleared the fence and Yulegalloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Telford and Louise Verity9386897296|title=SinsHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5

|summary=Is there enough new A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to say about read the seven deadly sins? sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. WeIt've seen them all shown to us, from school age and up s probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the movie devil in ''Se7enMarsha's Deal'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown but the devil is not one to anyone at school agetake defeat lying down. We can each recount them allHe's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably canshe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpcommit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. SimilarlyThen, of course, is there anything new in are all the world other children who are not only targeted but - worst of fairy tale? We know the tropes all - characters identified by their status or gender (subverted to the woman, the husband), a clear set of rules devil's evil ends. He's out to obey, prey on their fears and weaknesses and a moral as strong aswith many foster children, if not stronger than, the formulae involvedtheir self-esteem is very fragile. WellThis is no small-scale operation, this volume demands we decide either - the answer devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to those questions as being positive ones, and if it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh..Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>