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{{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>

<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|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=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 scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry -- Stibbe -->this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=1803363932}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4*[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|leftgenre=Short Stories|linksummary=https://wwwThis is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories. There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of them.amazonThere isn't a single one that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down the overall quality.coIt can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a general flavour.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag1739593901|title=thebookbag-21&linkCode22 Ideas About The Future|author=as2&campBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=1634&creative5|genre=6738&creativeASINScience Fiction|summary=0241309824]]''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=''A news 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…''

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time This collection of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo lot to defrost overnight, and if that failed offer the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best beteclectic reader. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic Tying them together is the idea that you can go remarkable and visit itstrange, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmaseven miraculous, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who things can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters happen to aunties you saw twice a decade ordinary people. And that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and as for the makers tone varies so this little treasury of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try short fiction is never boring and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]]<br>you're never quite sure what's coming next.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip K Dick1737030942|title= Philip K DickBag O's Electric DreamsGoodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating= 34|genre= Science FictionAnthologies|summary= Philip K DickSometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn' relaunched the Dickt want a full-inspired cult classic length novel, so I turned to reviews this anthology of pure praise; verse and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick Bittick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction writing has matured - and into the factual: so have his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's newscharacters. Well.. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>most of them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erinna Mettler1529418100|title= Fifteen MinutesBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=Our world is obsessed with celebrity culture I'm not usually a fan of short stories - and in this advent of social media, the updates on celebrity come 24 hours a day, delivered I find it all too easy to us on our televisions, our magazines, on our phones and our computers. In focusing on these heightened and airbrushed lives though, are we missing put the more interesting book down between stories and human stories that are out there? Thatforget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's what Erinna Mettler considers Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'15 Minutes'was hard to resist and I' - short stories m rather glad that feature celebrity encounters told through I didn't even try. For those new to the eyes of ordinaryseries, but no less compelling, charactersthere's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191158636X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sjon Hodgkinson and Ten Hodgkinson (editors)B08NF79QXT|title=The Dark-Blue Winter Overcoat and other stories from the NorthCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams

|genre=Anthologies Women's Fiction|summary=A compilation like this should be nigh on brilliant. It's not Thirty-one author's best short works-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, itfor just six months when she's that of a dozennominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. ItShe's not from one snapshot in time, as some were written the year of publication delighted and some in the 1960s. Ittwo people she's not from one tiny patch of authorbrought with her to the event couldn's desk or one set of laptop keyst be more pleased. Sonja, but from the entire Nordic worldher mother, whether that be urban Scandinavia, the Faroes is an ex-model and other island groups, or GreenlandBrazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. That is a world thatJessica's changing – as the Greenlandthirty-born author now living in Brooklyn, four and the Iraqi blood on these pages, testify. ItLiberty's a world where new roads and new building works mean a family living on the edge of the forest at the beginning of the story are being surrounded by best friend: they've known each other life by the end, since university and with the influence of centuries of folklore featured, a lot more than that changes – sometimes it seems to be even the characters' species…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273824</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Laura Solomon|title=Taking Wainui|rating=2|genre=General Fiction|summary= This is the first time I have come across Laura SolomonLiberty adores Jessica's workhusband, a New Zealand writer who has won writing prizes for both her fiction Charles and poetrytheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. Although this book appears to Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a collection of short stories, I found its format somewhat confusingman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth StevenB08KKQ85FN|title=Winter TalesBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona

|summary= Upon opening this book you are presented with ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an eclectic collection Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of twelve short stories centred around a common theme carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of Winterbus timetables and paying his own gas bills. '' You are taken don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? 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 world as you read stories set time 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 situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a variety of places partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from Helsinki to New Yorknew age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, Germany to Russiasomething a little deeper. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises Charles is more of a key component of short stories - [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that you Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can read each story in one sitting - Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subjectfriends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, such as bullyingwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910674508</amazonuk>isn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roald DahlMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title= FearCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary=Do you enjoy Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being scared? Featuring fourteen classic spine-chilling stories chosen by Roald Dahlcursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, these terrible tales as can princesses on the verge of ghostly goings-on will have you shivering with fear as you turn marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the pagestheme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405933216</amazonuk>1789091500

{{Frontpage|isbn=Stibbe_Xmas<!-- Dahl -->|title=An Almost Perfect Christmas[[image:Dahl_War.jpg|leftauthor=Nina Stibbe|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1405933194?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1405933194]]5 ===[[War by Roald Dahl]]==|genre=Humour [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] In war, are we at our heroic and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahlbet. 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 lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a fighter pilot in child, and as for the Second World War as makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well as seven , did they even try and sell them any other tales time of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity. [[War by Roald Dahl|Full Review]]<br>year?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahl0954899520|title= TrickeryA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating= 5|genre= Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of dark the simplicity, naivety and twisted trickery Roald Dahl reveals sheer 'goodness' that we are at our smartest and most cunning when we set out to deceive others - andwould later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, sometimessimple stories, even ourselvessimple goodness. Here, among others, you'll read What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the married couple natural world and the parting gift which rocks their marriage, the light fingered hitchsimple life that not only informed those child-hiker and like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the grateful motorist, and discover why the serious poacher keeps a few sleeping pills in his arsenalworld might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roald Dahl1911115847|title= InnocenceNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating= 54|genre= Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring ''Nights of the autobiographical Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories telling by Toni Kan. The series of Roald Dahl's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales stories tell of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys lives and horrors lusts of growing upan assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Among other storiesNigeria, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her fatherthis collection, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the landlady who has plans shadows and people are killed for her unsuspecting young guest nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and the commuter who is horrified passion that allows these cynical stories to discover that achieve a fellow passenger once bullied him at schoolglimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405933259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Hershman1529014484|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Science Fiction|summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from AOver the past twenty-Zeight years, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters in Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short order can be too muchstories, but do these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the right to pick and choose according to what appeals, and what time work by Ted Chiang. If you have haven't then take this opportunity to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surelydo so now. Such would appear to Trust me; your imagination will be the case heregrateful. 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 a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Kelman1794467440|title=That Was a Shiver, and Other StoriesWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating=3.54|genre=Short Stories |summary=This is the ninth book satisfying collection of short stories by this author, which means he's presented just has a provenance at least as beguiling as many collections the provenance of the short form as antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he has novels. You will find it hard to think was fond of another author that has and had been so noted for longer works (what with [[How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman|How Late It Was, How Late]] winning the Booker) but who is so generous in presenting shorter pieces for the time-poor, or those told was like me who see the variety in a writer1930s Cartier. Instead of mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's short or less typical works how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to be the more interesting places to turnAntique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. Opening these pagesThe eBay purchase was a fake, from but the pen friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of watches was not and the seed of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipationidea for a book was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786890909</amazonuk>

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

|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn'A Change Is Gonna Comet really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don'' is an anthology of t remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories and poems interpreting that come at the core from a tangent, that show the theme benefits of change by twelve BAME writersthe oblique glance. It I've always preferred coming to an author's Stripes Publishingoutput through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And itsame with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a great responsehunch, for obvious reasons).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk> For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Stancey1846974658|title= The Madonna of the PoolLong Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating= 3.54|genre= Short Stories|summary= In most short story collectionsOn my travels around the world, an overarching theme I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is usually present in each of selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the narratives which help each story gently flow in to next person, what I'm really looking for is the next. In this debut collection Helen Stancey explores 'local' – the quiet disappointmentscookbook maybe, achievementsthe maps definitely, and complications that each of us experience through everyday lifebut above all: the folk tales. She draws attention If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to the small events and decisions that hunt, I can both disrupt and significantly alter the lives of others and ourselves, all while maintaining a delicately poetic tone throughoutread before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1912054000</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna WalshB077969HN8|title=Worlds from the Word's EndAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon|rating=34.5

|summary=We here at The Bookbag liked this authorLaura Solomon's fairly recent collection of publisher describes the short stories, [[Vertigo by Joanna Walsh|Vertigo]]in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I myself missed out, but 'm rather glad that seemed to be vignettes from one characterI didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I's narration – here we get homosexual male narrators and m not normally a host morefan of either, as well as much less of but I've come to two conclusions about the sadness prevalent before. Having had a brief encounter with this author courtesy of her entry into book: what the [[Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by Lydia Pyne|Object Lessons]] series, publisher says is correct - and I was intrigued by her name being stamped on a selection of shortsreally enjoyed it. Was it the ideal calling card? Let The comedy is not ''too''s face it, black and the very short story itself can be surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a postcard – let's say, from a specific hotel twist or two, as we see hereflick of reality when you were least expecting it. Perhaps I should have geared myself up, however, for such intricate writing on said postcards – and for Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the exotic locations from which they came…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508105</amazonuk>nicest possible way.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips9386897504|title=Some Possible SolutionsTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=Picture a world where you, a new mother, move to a town where you slowly start to realise I've always believed that every other woman seems less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a replica great deal of you – dressing skill and doing as you do. Consider talent to write 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 short story which holds the woman who suddenly finds she can see everything reader and everyone else alive as having no skin, just organs, tissue and bone as if everyone was having a Gunther von Hagens plastination job? keeps them coming back for more. A lot There are far too many collections of these short stories which are hard all too easy to summarise without dropping into the voice put down and forget after you've read a couple of the pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha'Twilight Zones Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell' narration, but they're not specifically genre works – they're just further examples of this authors Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's unsettling look at the bizarre elements of lifeUnveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273425</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cixin Liu1986586898|title= Going To The Wandering EarthLast: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionShort Stories|summary= If anyone thought that In the short opening story as , a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againman whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the short form Gold Cup when the ground is Sci-fiagainst him. So when you pick up a collection My favourite was ''The Story of Sci-fi shortsH'', you know that it will have just the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novela kind horse who only wanted to please people. Add After changing hands on various occasions he came to that the intrigue yard of seeing how John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has Grand National and considered a somewhat different worldno-view in many ways to much hoper. In one of the rest most dramatic runnings of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only race, a bestpile-seller in his home country but has up occurred at the distinction of having produced 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the first translated work of SF ever fence and galloped to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493<line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fleur Jaeggy and Gini Alhadeff (translator)9386897296|title= I Am The Brother Of XXHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating= 43.5|genre= Short Stories|summary=A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I Am The Brother of XXwas delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling'' is . It's probably not much of a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggy, who expertly wields malevolence and spite throughout, from spoiler to say that Marsha bested the evil done between husband and wife devil in ''The AviaryMarsha's Deal'', a nasty tale of Oedipal menace and vicious, although admittedly, artful cruelty, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to senseless annihilation wage war on Planet Earth and immolation in particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'The Heir'goody two shoes'in Hell). Jaeggy also appears to have Although a particular fascination with religionstrong person, from the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in she''The Visitor'' to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many of s vulnerable where her storiesfoster children are concerned. Family Daniel is also framed for 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 crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and loneliness trying refused permission to create a bond return to live with his distant older sisterMarsha. Then, or of course, there are all the primal need other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide'devil's evil ends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malcolm Devlin|title= You Will Grow Into Them|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary= He''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred s out to prey on the nature of transition their fears and weaknesses and changeas with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. The often grisly This is no small-scale operation, macabre and ghoulish nature of either - the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictivedevil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907389431</amazonuk>