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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=John HarveyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M|title=A Darker Shade of BlueSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch
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|summary=There ''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are eighteen super short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts of London you'd generally really rather avoid and rural East Anglia. None is more than 300 words. Youcan read one in a flash.'ll see broken families, revenge killings, prostitution and drugs'''Some are funny. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force and underpaid men and women staffing itSome are poignant. And then there All are the people who, in spite of everything, fight for justiceshort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane FeaverRachel Harrison|title=Love Me TenderBad Dolls|rating=4.5
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|summary=A woman remembers her dead husband playing Love Me Tender (the song made famous by Elvis Presley) on his tenor hornIt's been some time since I've read any horror. She is in I had a daze, feeling the grief couple of the bereaved widow she ismisspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the betrayal of the deceived wife, books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the guilt point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of having murdered him. The title the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story of this 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 all the more moving creepy, and startling because I found most of its understated stylethat feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and what is not said that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as well as what isa breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099521288</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind AdigaB0CCCVRSGX|title=Between the AssassinationsStories 2|author=Richard F Walker
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|summary=This is Richard F Walker''Between the Assassinations'' is a collection s second volume of short stories set . There are thirteen in the fictional South Indian town all and I took something from each of Kittur, which is almost certainly Mangalore (where the Adiga grew up)them. But There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve to be among the plight of others or brings down the residents overall quality. It can be found in any Indian city - which tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, so I imagine is Adiga's point of setting it in ll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a fictional location. The twelve stories are vaguely interlinked (there are some recurring characters) but for the most part the stories stand alone. The time period is set between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, although like the location, the time period and the assassinations of the title have little bearing on the events themselvesgeneral flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848871236</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''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.''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09XZMCDVF
|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales
|author=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…''
This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary 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's coming next.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Lasdun1737030942|title=ItBag O's Beginning To HurtGoodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=ItSometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's Beginning to Hurt is ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a collection of sixteen short storiesyear ago, all bound together when I read his [[Cape Henry House by the theme Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of hurt in various formswhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. It is James Lasdun Right now, I didn's third collection t want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories . Bittick's writing has matured - and, chances are, if you are a fan of the short story then you will so have read something by him beforehis characters. Well...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512327</amazonuk>most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Porter1529418100|title=The Theory of Light Bruno's Challenge and MatterOther Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=Both I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book cover down between stories and its title are enticing, quirky, eyeforget to pick it up again -catching. Personally, but I'm am a fan of most things American including American fiction, Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I couldndidn't wait to start readingeven try. I was not disappointed. Porter introduces us For those new to charactersthe series, many of whom would probably be described as deeply flawed. He shares the darker side of modern-day American life with the reader - which is far from the bright lights of glitzy New York or the sun-drenched beaches of California. You could say there's an excellent introduction that this is will tell you all you need to know about real life. To underline his point, Porterwho's characters are mostly local folks (who and the background to use a favourite American word) shuffling through life as best they canwhy Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408982X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James KelmanB08NF79QXT|title=If it is Your LifeCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams
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|genre=Short StoriesWomen'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'If This Is Your Lifes delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn' t be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is not so much a collection of short stories as a collection of pieces of creative writingan ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Kelman doesnJessica't really do s thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they'storiesve known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica'. In nineteen pieces of writing of varying length from just a single page to more lengthy piecess husband, such as the story that gives its title to this collectionCharles and their four-year-old daughter, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of societyAva. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)B08KKQ85FN|title=Zombie: An Anthology of the Undead|rating=5|genre=Horror|summary=Anyone who enjoys a good horror story and likes zombie films will love this book, which is a collection of nineteen short stories by a variety of authors. I have to admit that I have only heard of one of the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]], who writes the [[The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor) by Mike Carey|Felix Castor]] novels - but I am not an avid reader of the genre and don't doubt that the authors will be known to readers more familiar with it. Despite this unfamiliarity, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the stories, with just one or two seemingly not up to scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749952539</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBut Never For Lunch|author=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)|title=Loves Me, Loves Me NotSandra Aragona|rating=4.5
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|summary=What ''If a feast is presented woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authorslipstick, celebrating an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the fiftieth anniversary company of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In a Who's Who of the genrecarrion crows or, there are writers from every age group, including one or two who might even have been founder members of more to the RNApoint, back in 1960. My advice is about to sip through discover the stories slowly, rather than gobbling them up quickly real world of bus timetables and suffering from indigestionpaying his own gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janice GallowayB08CHJLNBS|title=Collected StoriesCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=In this collection, stories are taken from two previous volumesHe's Charles Devereaux, Blood and Where You Find It. The fortythirty-two snap shots of life are mainly of women eight and young girlsa partner at Wickham Jones, struggling with emotionsthe Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, sometimes realized and sometimes not. In alltwenty-nine, there seems to be an underlying link of isolation librarian and trutharchivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The settings are variedSecret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, from a visit to the dentist to the place known as homewhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a walk in the eveninglittle deeper. We have Charles is more of a peek into the deepest darkest corners of everyday relationships[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, with loversabove all, partners and most 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 his mind? She's not his usual type at all ourselves: it's obvious to his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540398</amazonuk> And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley JacksonMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=The Lottery and Other StoriesCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
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|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=Even though it was written over sixty years agoCurses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, The Lotteryor not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, coming in at fewer than 3as can princesses on the verge of marrying,500 words still has the power to shockand older people too. When it first appeared It seems in the The New Yorker in 1948 a way there's no escaping it caused many outraged readers to cancel their subscriptions such was the devastating nature of the story. Time may have lessened sensibilities over Which is why the latter half theme of the twentieth century and the beginning this book of the twenty first but The Lottery, like many of the other short stories in is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this timely reissueaccursed character, still packs a mighty punchthat demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141191430</amazonuk>1789091500
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|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary=This short story collection starts with two appetisers before getting 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 with two main coursesthe downstairs loo to defrost overnight, but as with and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best meals even the smallest dishes can have the most depthbet. We start with the entire life cycle Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free- riserange and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, falland get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, risethough, fall - is of course also a hobo feeding pigeons in the parktime of great boons. Obviously he hasn't been doing that all his years - heIt's been keeping his dignity intact, with cash in hand for a huge amount lot of chutzpah plump people who can hire red suits and more. Nextbeards, it was always a smart Alec defeats godsend for postmen with all the older kids on 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 stoop with a bit makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of canny street wisdom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393328147</amazonuk>the year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Agnes Owens 0954899520|title=The Complete NovellasA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Who is Agnes Owens? A Scottish author who portrays working class life from Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the nineteen forties and fifties. Now an octogenarianMoomin books, apparently Agnes Owens started writing at written in the age 1940s and later becoming television characters of 58. Here are five previously published stories collected into one new editionthe simplicity, a companion volume to her short stories, published in 2008. I donnaivety and sheer 't think yougoodness'll be disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kazuo Ishiguro |title=Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall |rating=3that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=A jobbing guitarist from an Eastern European countrySimple drawings, playing in Venicesimple stories, simple goodness. What is given a most singular gig by an ageing, passing crooner. An old friend often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a couple at loggerheads stays in their flat, but enters serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a nightmare feeling for the natural world of comedy, doing greater and greater wrongs to cover his first transgression. A younger couple running a cafe employ a friend to help out, despite his wish to hide in the hills and compose new songs for his simple life that notonly informed those child-very illustrious careerlike trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057124498X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aleksandar Hemon 1911115847|title=Love and ObstaclesNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=We start with ''Nights of the young narrator away from home, and in Africa, due to his diplomat father. HeCreaking Bed''s left behind home, is a potential girlfriend, collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and more, but finds company with lusts of an older, chancer character assortment of characters living in and his junkie girlfriendaround Lagos, and their pot, drinks and 70s rockNigeria. Closer to his rootsNigeria, but still a young man abroadin this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the second story sees him travelling across his homeland on an errand - to deliver payment shadows and people are killed for the biggest chest freezer his father could findnothing more than a wrong look. But poems, losing his virginity, keeping his money, Kan writes with a vitality and various other fantasies might just put passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a cooler on that unusual taskglimmer of hope...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Stross 1529014484|title=WirelessExhalation |rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=In his introduction, Stross explains that one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are the ideal format in which to focus on a particular concept of the future and play around with it. It doesn't matter so much if the idea doesn't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in it the way they would in a novel. ''Wireless'' then, is something of an experiment. Stross employs many different styles, tackles many different subjects and is very skilful at creating mood. His stories are a strange blend of the technical and the archaic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Oxfam|title=Ox-Tales: AirTed Chiang|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=Four books of short stories each taking (rather loosely on occasions) as a theme one of Over the elements: [[Oxpast twenty-Tales: Earth by Oxfam|Earth]]eight years, [[Ox-Tales: Fire by Oxfam|Fire]]Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, [[Oxthese magnificent stories have won twenty-Tales: Water by Oxfam|Water]], and this book ''Air'', sold in aid seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of Oxfam but not about Oxfam's the workby Ted Chiang. The writers, many household names, have given their work for free and at least 50p from the sale of each new book goes If you haven't then take this opportunity to Oxfamdo so now. That's not entirely the point though, is it? You want to know if the book is worth buyingTrust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682614</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oxfam 1794467440|title=Ox-Tales: Earth|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Published in aid of Oxfam work, Ox-Tales comprise of four books featuring original stories donated to the project by a variety of writers. The framework for the books is provided by the four elements of the classical philosophy. Each collection starts with Vikram Seth's elemental poem and ends with a short article highlighting Oxfam's work in a key area ([[Ox-Tales: Fire by Oxfam|fire]] – conflict and war, [[Ox-Tales: Water by Oxfam|water]] – sanitation and clean water, earth – agriculture and air – climate change).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682584</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWatchwords |author=Irvine Welsh |title=Reheated CabbagePhilip Neal
|rating=4
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|summary=Irvine Welsh's choice of title for this This satisfying collection of short stories may serve to warn some unwary readers has a provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of its unpalatable nature. To the uninitiated, its stream of unrestrained swearing, drug taking, sex and casual violence could come as a shock. His fans though, will no doubt lap antique watches that inspired it up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080555</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Jackson1529006031|title=Bears of England|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=As you know, England has had a chequered history when it comes Return to her bears. From the days when we only knew them as horrors making bumping noises - among many others - in the night, we have learnt more, and used them more. Therefore we have this short little book, detailing some of the more remarkable instances of Anglo-bear relations, from the days of bear-baiting, to them being shot at when they escaped the circus, to when they were employed in subaquatic labour in the days before SCUBA gear...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571242405</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWonderland|author=Paul R Spiring (Editor)|title=Aside Arthur Conan Doyle: Twenty Original Tales By Bertram Fletcher RobinsonVarious Authors
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=The shortlived Bertram Fletcher Robinson is sadly little more than In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a footnote few years ago, when the first book she was in British literature. His fame rests largely on having contributed to, [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and helped to inspire, a couple Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of Sherlock Holmes stories – andage]], if you believe I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the conspiracy theorists-sake-of-it did not gel, having been bumped off by Conan Doyle for threatening to claim authorship of one of them and denounce Doyle I don't remember loving it more as a fraudchild. (Don't go there).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312527</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H. GBut I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle |title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, an introduction. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the best in genre fiction, core from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpecteda tangent, is collected and dressed up for us in graphic novel formthat show the benefits of the oblique glance. This seventeenth editionI've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, a belated best-of sciallegedly throw-fi volume, is their first foray into full colouraway pieces, and is headlined by it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a version of The War of the Worldshunch, for obvious reasons). The supporting material ranges from a one-page strip For another thing, there was every reason to thirty-page stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor) 1846974658|title=Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this season, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=MaryJan-Ann Constantine|title=The BreathingPhilipp Sendker
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|summary=Mary-Ann Constantine's book is a bit like a piece of embroidery: painstakingly slowOn my travels around the world, sewn with different threads, but the result is I have a beautiful picture by an accomplished hand. It tendency to end up in any bookshop that is a book of short storiesselling English-language books, very different and quite ambiguouswhile I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, describing the lives of people - and an elephant - of a certain location (or a few) in Wales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954088182</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan |title=Demomaps definitely, but above all: v. 1|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's not every young disaffected teenager that will respond to the withdrawal of her medication so explosivelyfolk tales. ItIf I ever get to Burma, I won's not every young disaffected teenager that runs through empty landscapes because she is too scared t need to speak to anyone – for quite the reasons we see here. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in the fashion the third story gives ushunt, I can read before I go. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jay McInerneyB077969HN8|title=The Last Bachelor Alternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4.5
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|summary=I enjoyed these Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories by Jay McInerney in ''Alternative Medicine'' as if they were ''black comedy with a box twist of expensive, dark chocolatessurrealism''. Some centres were nut hard 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, while but I've come to two conclusions about the rich ganache in others left a bittersweet aftertastebook: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The seven deadly sins provided distinctive tastes of American comedy is not ''successtoo'', black and the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as I nibbled my a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the nicest possible way through twelve sophisticated stories. Mmm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759984X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Child (Editor)9386897504|title=Killer YearTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4
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|summary=This collection of seventeen short stories in the crime genre is by a group of new, young American I've always believed that less-able writers who have all been mentored by more established writers such as Lee Child, Joe R Lansdale and Ken Bruen. Although produce longer books: it is takes a little uneven in quality it does represent an effort to promote the work great deal of younger writers in a world where it can be hard skill and talent to make write a break-through into mainstream publishing. The short story is a specialised medium which holds the reader and the crime genre keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short story has two prejudices stories which are all too easy to fight - if put down and forget after you don't ve read short stories you are even less likely to read short stories a couple of a particular genrepieces. But whereas mainstream fiction might have its diehard factions, I feel the crime aficionado may well be less uptight and crime novel lovers might 've recently read this collection in the hope a couple of finding the next Harlan Coben or novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Lippman.Solomon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830275X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMarsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|author=Tania Hershman|title=The White Road|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=A female café owner situated in a very strange place breaks the mundane routine with a very strange act. A female loses sight of her lifeHell's goals due to having a husband Unveiling]] and childrenenjoyed them, and finds a strange way of reconnecting with her interests. And females on first dates so I was intrigued to see what she could do strange things – to levers in zero-G, and with potteryan even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844714756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Carol Oates1986586898|title=Going To The Museum of Doctor MosesLast: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
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|summary=In the opening story, a oneman whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket -sentence rush, we get and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an entire short story, starring various joggers, that proves above all else that words can killowner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. ItMy favourite was ''The Story of H''s a moral bluntly put, and the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as an opener a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the volume puts us instantly on yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a nervous edgeno-hoper. We might not be in for In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile-up occurred at the happiest read23rd fence. Foinavon, we thinkwho had been many lengths adrift, before turning cleared the fence and galloped to the second storyline, which is called Suicide Watchwinning the race at odds of 100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gardner Dozois (Editor), Jack Dann (Editor)9386897296|title=Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern FantasyHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5
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|summary=A little while ago Ireally enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''m always in two minds about short story collections. On the one hand it It's a bit probably not much of a risk – there could be one or two really good stories and a load of rubbish. Butspoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the great thing about them devil is they can introduce you not one to writers you might never have read otherwisetake defeat lying down. While you probably wouldn He't be prepared s out to invest time wage war on Planet Earth and money into particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a book you aren't sure yougoody two shoes'll likein Hell). Although a strong person, spending half an hour or so reading she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a short story woncrime he didn't leave you feeling too robbed if you doncommit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course, there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He't enjoy its out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747589542</amazonuk>
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