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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John E FlanneryAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=TobyAll Tomorrow's Little EdenFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=John E Flannery's debut collection contains four short stories (although one is more of a novella) and a series 'Opening up new ways of amusing sketches thinking about the ground staff at a new Golf Course in north Manchester. They're more varied than they might appear at first glance and demonstrate Flannery's ability to get straight to the heart shape of the story without wasting words and things to develop character as economically as possible, whilst still holding the reader's imaginationcome. I knew as soon as I began ''The Ghostwriter'' that I wasn't going to be disappointed as a man who has written successful thrillers is possessed by the spirit of Charles Dickens. It's a neat riff on John Braine's idea that novelist wait for an idea to descend on them and Graham Greene's belief that novelists are like mediums.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445777940</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan ChambersB0CDZRGT1M|title=The Kissing GameSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=A WW2 naval soldier, guarding ''Got a prison island for those found guilty at courtmartials, is forced minute to wonder if he is winning his own battles against those arriving and leaving. A soldier remembers calming memoriesbe amused, and those causing tensionentertained, as he rests up before actionor challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. And for None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a highly-charged young man, there may be too much risk to be found in his high-octane downtimeflash.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532220</amazonuk>}}''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John H Watson, Tony Reynolds and Chris CoadyRachel Harrison|title=The Lost Stories of Sherlock HolmesBad Dolls
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It is 's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a truth universally acknowledged that couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a successful detective character will have far too many cases in his career for it boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to be the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at all realistic. night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! The worst case in point are the Hardy BoysIt doesn't have those jump scares, who and I didn't have had two hundred or more adventures 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 still not 20. Slightly more literarystories about women, living normal lives, but no less busy it can seemand that at least in part, was Sherlock Holmesthe horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, for Watson declaimed many times that he did not write down all that man's exploits. Tony Reynolds here gives us eight more casestrying a new dieting app, making Holmes' workload even more impressivegoing to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907685618</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly SamsonB0CCCVRSGX|title=Perfect LivesStories 2|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=The eleven This is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories . There are thirteen in Perfect Lives are about a group all and I took something from each of people living in an English seaside townthem. Each story of challenged relationships, devastating discoveries and objects and people with There isn't a history is carefully and beautifully crafted, stands alone and works well in its own right, but the connections between all the stories offer an extra, fascinating dimension. Each story made me want single one that doesn't deserve to look at be among the others again to understand how they all connect, to piece together or brings down the different bits of people's lives in each storyoverall quality. This format also offers an opportunity It can be tricky to see some of the characters from several different perspectives, and perhaps make the review short stories more satisfying to those who are dissatisfied by their brevity, as some of the same characters reappearwithout giving too much away, so offering some of the advantages of the novel while staying in the short story form. There are four stories told in the first person by an unnamed woman who is married with I'll just pick two young sons, to talk about and then one of her sons has I think they give a story of his own (Ivan Knows). There are a variety of narrative viewpoints – women, men, a little boy, a teenage girl, first and third persongeneral flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1860499929</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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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sheila O'FlanaganB09XZMCDVF|title=A Season to Remember|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=We first meet the Lodge owners, a likable couple. They find running their upmarket country house type hotel both exhilarating and exhausting. The novel is bang up to date so O'Flanagan gets in the whole recession/banker-bashing thing early on. As the festive season looms, the unthinkable has happened. Empty rooms. They're not used to empty rooms, at any time of the year. Normally the Lodge is a full house. But then a slow and steady trickle starts as our characters book in - and the story starts proper, so to speak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755375157</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=John Mortimer|title=Rumpole at ChristmasRichard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This book ''A news vendor is as slim as one crying out the headlines in the middle of Rumpole's beloved packets of cigars and it can also be read 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 the time it takes to correct an average turkey iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to cook have around in a lawless village; the oven new boy on Christmas Day. A handful of festive, short stories the pub football team is covered in this book very useful with its appealing front cover. Most of the stories have been previously published elsewherehis feet, mainly in and awfully familiar…'The Strand Magazine' but also in some of the national newspapers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039779</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colm Toibin1737030942|title=The Empty FamilyBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=In Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his first book since the pitch-perfect [[Brooklyn Cape Henry House by Colm ToibinJolly Walker Bittick|BrooklynCape Henry House]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme a rollicking tale of exile and homecoming in his new collection of short storieswhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn'The Empty Family'. As the title suggestst want a full-length novel, many so I turned to this anthology of the verse and short stories also revolve around family relationships, . Bittick's writing has matured - and their sweet and sour Natureso have his characters. Well...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kurt Vonnegut1529418100|title=Look at the BirdieBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Kurt Vonnegut died I'm not usually a couple fan of years ago after short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a sci fi writing career spanning over fifty years; he was well-known for his humanist views. This collection fan of unpublished short stories shows Vonnegut at his dark best, his theme, individuals out for themselves in an uncaring society. A colleague at The Bookbag Martin Walker's [[Armageddon Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Retrospect by Kurt VonnegutChronological Order|recently wroteBruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that Kurt VonnegutI didn's early writing is his strongestt even try. If For those new to the series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is soin St Denis.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, then this collectionthe Cherry Blossom Boutique, illustrated for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with cartoons by her to the authorevent couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, will Ava. Life would be good news perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for his many fansone thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryunosuke AkutagawaB08KKQ85FN|title=The Beautiful and the GrotesqueBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=The author, the tongue-twisting Akutagawa is 'hailed as one of the greatest short story writers in world literature' says If a woman approaching the back book cover. I was truly impressed and very keen menopause can be likened to get reading. The front cover is both eye-catching and colourfula Rottweiler in lipstick, there's no doubt that this book is an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about Japan. There is a comprehensive Introduction with its lovely title ''A Sprig Of Wild Orange'' written by to be released into the translator. And straight away I got a strong sense company of his enthusiasm for carrion crows or, more to the short stories point, about to follow. It is a good lead-in as it informs discover the reader real world of the gulf which exists between Western bus timetables and Japanese values (a gulf as big as it gets, apparently) and of the conservative nature of the Japanese peoplepaying his own gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0871401924</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kelly LinkB08CHJLNBS|title=Pretty MonstersCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a 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 new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his 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, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)
|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It goes without sayingCurses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, but the greatest thing about fantasy fiction is or not to be able to do that one . Children can go anywhere with itbe cursed, as can princesses on the verge of marrying, and do anythingolder people too. So It seems in a young man can easily try and dig his girlfriend up and retrieve some poetry he romantically left with her - only to have a hairy evening as a resultway there's no escaping it. There can be Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a psychic link between a young ladstandout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, called Onion and doomed to die in a terrorist attackthat demonised place, and his cousin while she works as slave in an odd community of wizardsthat other bewitched person. Several worlds can We'd be accessed through an elderly woman's handbag, for better or worsevery wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847677843</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A L KennedyStibbe_Xmas|title=What BecomesAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You're three stories into this collection and two people only have cut their hands open preparing food - to think about the turkey for that – once upon a man with love drooping away from his marriagetime it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, making soupand if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and anotherget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, a greengrocerthough, preparing stock and thinking about his own relationship. But there is no pattern to thatof course also a time of great boons. Four stories It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and there have been two bursts of non-sequitur comedy. Why your fruit might be ruined by stray fingersbeards, and it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thoughts of thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a woman decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a flotation tankchild, remembering Doctor Who, locked parental doors - and as for the urban myths makers of gerbils. But there's still no pattern - Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and that's sell them any other time of the point of these combined stories. Life and all of its emotions does not live to rule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009949406X</amazonuk>year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=A Winter Book
|author=Tove Jansson
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In her home country of Finland – Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and no doubt throughout much later becoming television characters of the rest of Europe which is not quite so sniffy about foreign literature as Britain tends to be – Jansson is generally recognised as an author of talentsimplicity, skill, verve naivety and wit sheer 'goodness' that extended far beyond the Moomin Troll would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories , simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for which she is best known in this country. Those children's books were first published in England sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since (adults as well as being adapted children…and that she had a feeling for just about every other medium going), the natural world and a joy they are too, the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but it is only recently that we have been granted went far beyond any fantasy of how the pleasures of reading her fiction for adultsworld might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095489958X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Grisham1911115847|title=Ford CountyNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=When I think of John Grisham I tend to think firstly of lawyers. Well, actually, I think ''Nights of Tom Cruise first to be honest, and then the whole lawyer thing. I expect surprising twists and long, detailed plots. This collection, however, Creaking Bed'' is a book collection of short stories so has to work differentlyby Toni Kan. There isn't room within a short story for a lengthy, twisting plot, and so Grisham has to rely on other skills to make them work. My feeling was that some do and some don't. Set in America's Deep South all the The series of stories revolve around a rather mixed bag tell of characters from Ford County, with the ever-present lawyers but also gamblers, murderers, con artists, drunks lives and scoundrels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099545780</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Harvey|title=A Darker Shade lusts of Blue|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=There are eighteen short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts an assortment of London you'd generally really rather avoid characters living in and rural East Angliaaround Lagos, Nigeria. You'll see broken familiesNigeria, revenge killingsin this collection, prostitution is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and drugspeople are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched police force Kan writes with a vitality and underpaid men and women staffing it. And then there are the people who, in spite passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer of everything, fight for justicehope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Okri1529014484|title=Tales of FreedomExhalation |author=Ted Chiang
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Tales of Freedom is a book of two halvesOver the past twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, with these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a short story entitled Comic Destiny taking up the majority science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the bookwork by Ted Chiang. Comic Destiny is made up of a series of short pieces that follow on from each other and are probably best described as being closer If you haven't then take this opportunity to prose poetry than anything elsedo so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041597</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Jane Feaver|title=Love Me Tender|rating=4.5Frontpage|genreisbn=Short Stories1794467440|summary=A woman remembers her dead husband playing Love Me Tender (the song made famous by Elvis Presley) on his tenor horn. She is in a daze, feeling the grief of the bereaved widow she is, the betrayal of the deceived wife, and the guilt of having murdered him. The title story of this collection is all the more moving and startling because of its understated style, and what is not said as well as what is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521288</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWatchwords |author=Aravind Adiga|title=Between the AssassinationsPhilip Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''Between the Assassinations'' is a This satisfying collection of short stories set in has a provenance at least as beguiling as the fictional South Indian town provenance of Kittur, which is almost certainly Mangalore (where the Adiga grew up). But the plight of the residents can be found in any Indian city - which I imagine is Adiga's point of setting antique watches that inspired it in 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 themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848871236</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Lasdun1529006031|title=It's Beginning To HurtReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=ItIn following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Beginning Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don'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 Hurt is a collection of sixteen enjoy these short storiesthat come at the core from a tangent, all bound together by that show the theme benefits of hurt in various formsthe oblique glance. It is James Lasdun I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's third collection of short stories andnovella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, chances arefor obvious reasons). For another thing, if you are a fan there was every reason to expect some kind of the short story then you will have read something greatness here – with Carroll much loved by him before.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512327</amazonuk>millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Porter1846974658|title=The Theory of Light and MatterLong Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Both On my travels around the book cover and its title are enticing, quirky, eye-catching. Personallyworld, I'm have a fan of most things American including American fictiontendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, so and while I couldn't wait to start reading. I was not disappointed. Porter introduces us to characters, buy as many of whom would probably be described second-hand escapist tales as deeply flawed. He shares the darker side of modern-day American life with next person, what I'm really looking for is the reader - which is far from 'local' – the bright lights of glitzy New York or cookbook maybe, the sun-drenched beaches of California. You could say that this is maps definitely, but above all about real life: the folk tales. To underline his pointIf I ever get to Burma, PorterI won's characters are mostly local folks (t need to use a favourite American word) shuffling through life as best they hunt, I canread before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408982X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James KelmanB077969HN8|title=If it is Your Life|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=''If This Is Your Life'' is not so much a collection of short stories as a collection of pieces of creative writing. Kelman doesn't really do 'stories'. In nineteen pieces of writing of varying length from just a single page to more lengthy pieces, such as the story that gives its title to this collection, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of society. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlternative Medicine|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|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>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)|title=Loves Me, Loves Me NotLaura Solomon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=What Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a feast is presented in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary twist of the Romantic Novelistssurrealism'' Association. In I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a Whofan of either, but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too''s Who of black and the genre, there are writers from every age group, including one surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or two who might even have been founder members flick of the RNA, back in 1960reality when you were least expecting it. My advice is Your comfort zones are going to sip through be invaded in the stories slowly, rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestionnicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Tillotson9386897504|title=Cut on the Bias|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women Tales of Love and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisability|author=Janice Galloway|title=Collected StoriesLaura Solomon|rating=54
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In this collection, stories are taken from two previous volumes, Blood and Where You Find It. The fortyI've always believed that less-two snap shots of life are mainly able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of women skill and young girls, struggling with emotions, sometimes realized talent to write a short story which holds the reader and sometimes notkeeps them coming back for more. In There are far too many collections of short stories which are all, there seems too easy to be an underlying link of isolation put down and truth. The settings are varied, from forget after you've read a visit to the dentist to the place known as home, to a walk in the eveningcouple of pieces. We have I've recently read a peek into the deepest darkest corners couple of everyday relationshipsnovellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with lovers, partners and most of all ourselvesan even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley Jackson1986586898|title=Going To The Lottery and Other Last: Short StoriesAbout Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Even though it was written over sixty years agoIn the opening story, The Lottery, coming a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in at fewer than 3,500 words still has his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the power problem of whether or not to shock. When it first appeared run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The New Yorker in 1948 it caused many outraged readers to cancel their subscriptions such was the devastating nature Story of H'', the storyof Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. Time may have lessened sensibilities over After changing hands on various occasions he came to the latter half yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the twentieth century Grand National and the beginning considered a no-hoper. In one of the twenty first but The Lottery, like many most dramatic runnings of the other stories in this timely reissuerace, still packs a mighty punch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191430</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off pile-up occurred at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Bedford|title=None of the Cadillacs was Pink|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=I chose this book because of its superb title – the last and best memoir in a collection of sixteen stories23rd fence. These Humberside and Lincolnshire stories have a background beat of Fifties' music that sets them firmly in an exciting Foinavon, disturbing time for young people everywherewho had been many lengths adrift, not least for cleared the author fence and his friendsgalloped to the line, as old ways of living made way for new along winning the East Coast race at odds of England100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529445</amazonuk>
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|rating=3.5
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|summary=A jobbing guitarist from an Eastern European countrylittle while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, playing ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in Venice''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is given a most singular gig by an ageing, passing croonernot one to take defeat lying down. An old friend He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a couple at loggerheads stays 'goody two shoes' in their flatHell). Although a strong person, but enters she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a nightmare world crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of comedycourse, doing greater and greater wrongs there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to cover his first transgressionthe devil's evil ends. A younger couple running a cafe employ a friend to help He's out, despite his wish to hide in the hills prey on their fears and weaknesses and compose new songs for his notas with many foster children, their self-esteem is very illustrious careerfragile. 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>057124498X</amazonuk>
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