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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SimpsonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=In-Flight EntertainmentAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=I am always thrilled to see that Helen Simpson has brought out a ''Opening up new book. I am a big fan ways of thinking about the shape of her crisp, funny, observant short storiesthings to come. So I picked up 'In Flight Entertainment' with some anticipation. I was not disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546124</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy ParkerB0CDZRGT1M|title=The SexesSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch|rating=4.5
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|summary=From the young woman who examined her handkerchief in ''Got a minute detailto be amused, entertained, to the soldieror challenged?'''s leave which didn't live up to expectation, through the thoughts of the early hours of the morning to the actress who proved a disappointment to her fan and on to the glorious culmination of the child who should never have been called Lolita we have five wonderful These 100 stories are super short stories. They're None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a book thatflash.''''s no bigger than most Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short stories but buy it and it could well be the best buy that you make this year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014119619X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William StyronRachel Harrison|title=The Suicide RunBad Dolls
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|summary=A WW2 naval soldierIt's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, guarding borrowing the books from a prison island 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 - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those found guilty at courtmartialsjump scares, is forced and I didn't have to wonder if he read it during daylight hours only! But it is winning his own battles against those arriving creepy, and leaving. A soldier remembers calming memoriesI found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and those causing tensionthat at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as he rests up before action. And for a highly-charged young manbreakup, trying a new dieting app, there may be too much risk going to be found in his high-octane downtimea hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099532220</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SaundersB0CCCVRSGX|title=The Vernham ChroniclesStories 2|author=Richard F Walker
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|genre=HumourShort Stories|summary=Set amidst the rolling British countryside around Vernbury Vale This is the little village Richard F Walker's second volume of Vernhamshort stories. Anyone who lives There are thirteen in a village will recognise it immediately, with its cobbled streets all and Tudor buildingsI took something from each of them. There was some damage during isn't a single one that doesn't deserve to be among the war (which might, others or might not have been brings down to a lighthouse folly constructed by a local landowner on his lake) but the gaps have been filled with some beautiful, er, mock Tudor buildingsoverall quality. Almost unique and nearly beautiful as the village isIt can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, itso I's not the star of The Vernham Chroniclesll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a general flavour. The stars are the people who live in Vernham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907499598</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.''
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. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John H Watson, Tony Reynolds and Chris CoadyB09XZMCDVF|title=The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker
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|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It ''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a truth universally acknowledged that a successful detective character will have far too many cases wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his career imagination; a stickler for it correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to be at all realistic. The worst case have around in point are a lawless village; the Hardy Boysnew boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, who have had two hundred or more adventures and are still not 20. Slightly more literary, but no less busy it can seem, was Sherlock Holmes, for Watson declaimed many times that he did not write down all that manawfully familiar…'s exploits. Tony Reynolds here gives us eight more cases, making Holmes' workload even more impressive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685618</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|authortitle=Sheila Bag O'FlanaganGoodies|titleauthor=A Season to RememberJolly Walker Bittick
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|genre=General FictionAnthologies|summary=We first meet the Lodge ownersSometimes, you deserve a likable couple. They find running their upmarket country house type hotel both exhilarating treat and exhausting. The novel is bang up to date so mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Flanagan gets in the whole recession/banker-bashing thing early onGoodies''. As the festive season loomsI first encountered his writing about a year ago, the unthinkable has happened. Empty rooms. They're not used to empty roomswhen I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], at any time a rollicking tale of the yearwhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Normally the Lodge is Right now, I didn't want a full house-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories. But then a slow and steady trickle starts as our characters book in Bittick's writing has matured - and the story starts proper, so to speakhave his characters. Well...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755375157</amazonuk>most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Mortimer1529418100|title=Rumpole at ChristmasBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book is as slim as one down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of RumpoleMartin Walker's [[Martin Walker's beloved packets of cigars and it can also be read Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the time it takes an average turkey temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to cook in the oven on Christmas Dayresist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. A handful of festive, short stories is covered in this book with its appealing front cover. Most of For those new to the stories have been previously published elsewhereseries, mainly in there'The Strand Magazines an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who' but also s who and the background to why Bruno is in some of the national newspapersSt Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raymond CarverB08NF79QXT|title=BeginnersCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary= One thing you soon surmise from reading Raymond Carver is that he was an alcoholicThirty-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. Carver She's characters tend to drink excessively, delighted and his stories often examine the negative impact of drinking on his central charactertwo people she's relationshipsbrought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. But nowadays Sonja, her mother, what we talk about when we talk about Carver is the role of his editoran 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, Gordon LishAva. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540320</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colm ToibinB08KKQ85FN|title=The Empty Family|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=In his first book since the pitch-perfect [[Brooklyn by Colm Toibin|Brooklyn]], Colm Toibin once more examines the great Irish theme of exile and homecoming in his new collection of short stories, 'The Empty Family'. As the title suggests, many of the stories also revolve around family relationships, and their sweet and sour Nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918172</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBut Never For Lunch|author=Kurt Vonnegut|title=Look at the BirdieSandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Kurt Vonnegut died ''If a couple of years ago after woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a sci fi writing career spanning over fifty years; he was well-known for his humanist views. This collection of unpublished short stories shows Vonnegut at his dark bestRottweiler in lipstick, his theme, individuals out for themselves in an uncaring society. A colleague at The Bookbag [[Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut|recently wrote]] that Kurt Vonnegut's early writing is his strongest. If that is soAmbassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, then this collectionmore to the point, illustrated with cartoons by about to discover the author, will be good news for real world of bus timetables and paying his many fansown gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548852</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia DavisB08CHJLNBS|title=The Collected Short Stories of Lydia DavisCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=As you might expect with short storiesHe's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the themes are as varied as 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 Fears of Mrs OrlandoSecret]] but she' to s moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else'Mothers' and of courses philosophies, I have my own particular favouritesto something a little deeper. Most Charles is more of these short stories cover a couple of pages[[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but others are merely a sentence or two, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. AndThey're obviously not at all compatible, for me, the less on the page, the more impart the words usually haveso 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. In short (no pun intended) there would seem And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to be something for everyone in these 700+ pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114504X</amazonuk>him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly LinkMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Pretty MonstersCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating=34.5
|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, with a Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short story entitled Comic Destiny taking up the majority of the book. Comic Destiny is made up of a series of short pieces that follow on from each other and stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are probably best described as being closer to prose poetry than anything else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846041597</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Feaver|title=Love Me Tender|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|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 science fiction fan it is, the betrayal likely that you have already come across some of the deceived wife, and the guilt of having murdered himwork by Ted Chiang. The title story of If you haven't then take this collection is all the more moving and startling because of its understated style, and what is not said as well as what isopportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521288</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aravind Adiga1794467440|title=Between the AssassinationsWatchwords |author=Philip 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 the reader - which next person, what I'm really looking for is far from the bright lights of glitzy New York or the sun-drenched beaches of California. You could say that this is all about real life. To underline his point, Porter's characters are mostly local folks (to use a favourite American word) shuffling through life as best they can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408982X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Kelman|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 collectioncookbook maybe, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on the edge of society. He addresses issues such as classmaps definitely, politics, gender, age and ill health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden (Editor)|title=Zombiebut above all: 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 authorsfolk tales. If I have ever get to admit that I have only heard of one of the authors before - [[:Category:Mike Carey|Mike Carey]]Burma, 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 donwon't doubt that the authors will be known need to readers more familiar with it. Despite this unfamiliarityhunt, 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 Not|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=What a feast is presented in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In a Who's Who of the genre, there are writers from every age group, including one or two who might even have been founder members of the RNA, back in 1960. My advice is to sip through the stories slowly, rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestioncan read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie TillotsonB077969HN8|title=Cut on the BiasAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=If Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'Cut on d finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of either, but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the Biaspublisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too'' black and the surrealism is in your local bookshop, gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you will surely be won over by the feisty coverwere least expecting it. Stories about women and their clothes Your comfort zones are about identity, so what better start going to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring be invaded in the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>nicest possible way.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janice Galloway9386897504|title=Collected StoriesTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura 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
|genre=Short Stories
|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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