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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Cees Nooteboom Benjamin Greenaway and Ina Rilke Stephen Oram (TranslatorEditors)|title=The Foxes Come At Night And Other Stories|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=There's a bold statement on the front cover from, as it happens, one of my favourite authors, [[:Category:A S Byatt|A S Byatt]] saying that Nooteboom is ''one Opening up new ways of thinking about the greatest modern novelists'' so I thought that I was in for a treat. But I didn't enjoy the first short story. Not the greatest shape of starts. I was disappointed to say the least and was wondering what all the fuss was about. Then I started to read the story entitled ''Thunderstorm'' and things started to pick up. I appreciated the sparse and elegant languagecome. Lines such as 'Five people at an outdoor cafe: two women ... a solitary black man ... a couple at a table nearby. Enough for a film.' How lovely and evocative is that last line, I'm thinking. I read it twice as it was so good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050230</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SimpsonB0CDZRGT1M|title=In-Flight EntertainmentSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch|rating=4.5
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|summary=I am always thrilled ''Got a minute to see that Helen Simpson has brought out a new book. I am a big fan of her crispbe amused, funnyentertained, observant or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short stories. So I picked up None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.'In Flight Entertainment' with some anticipation''Some are funny. I was not disappointedSome are poignant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546124</amazonuk>}}All are short.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy ParkerRachel Harrison|title=The SexesBad Dolls|rating=54
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|summary=From the young woman who examined her handkerchief in minute detail, to the soldierIt's leave which didnbeen some time since I't live up to expectationve read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, through borrowing the thoughts of the early hours of the morning to the actress who proved books from a disappointment to her fan boy I fancied at school and on scaring myself half silly with them to the glorious culmination point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the child who should never have been called Lolita we have five wonderful vampires outside! Don't worry - this short stories. story collection isn't like that! TheyIt doesn're in a book thatt have those jump scares, and I didn's no bigger than most short stories but buy t have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and it could well be I found most of that feeling came from the best buy fact that you make this year.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014119619X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Chambers|title=The Kissing Game|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=You don't see these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that many short story collections at least in YA circles. But when they do appearpart, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this is absolutely the case with The Kissing Game. Ranging horrors arises from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short storiesvery normal situations such as a breakup, each one will incitetrying a new dieting app, surprise going to a hen party and stimulatea coping with grief. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William StyronB0CCCVRSGX|title=The Suicide RunStories 2|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=A WW2 naval soldier, guarding a prison island for those found guilty at courtmartials, is forced to wonder if he This is winning his own battles against those arriving and leavingRichard F Walker's second volume of short stories. A soldier remembers calming memories, There are thirteen in all and those causing tension, as he rests up before actionI took something from each of them. And for There isn't a highly-charged young man, there may single one that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down the overall quality. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much risk away, so I'll just pick two to be found in his high-octane downtimetalk about and I think they give a general flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532220</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=John H Watson, Tony Reynolds and Chris CoadyB09XZMCDVF|title=The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|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|authorisbn=Shena Mackay1737030942|title=The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This volume of short stories, first published in 2008 but new in paperback, has a lot to offer those familiar with Shena MackayBag O's previous work and readers coming to her stories for the first time, with a generous thirty six stories - thirteen recent stories collected in book form for the first time are combined with twenty three from Shena Mackay's previous collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099469677</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGoodies|author=Sheila O'Flanagan|title=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, 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 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– the cookbook maybe, such as the story that gives its title to this collectionmaps definitely, Kelman writes (mostly) about people on but above all: the edge of societyfolk tales. He addresses issues such as class If I ever get to Burma, politicsI won't need to hunt, gender, age and ill healthI can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142423</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Golden (Editor)B077969HN8|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>}} {{newreviewAlternative Medicine|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 BiasTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=If I''Cut on ve always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which holds the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty coverreader and keeps them coming back for more. Stories about women and their clothes There are far too many collections of short stories which are about identity, so what better start all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a set couple of short stories than pieces. I've recently read a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janice Galloway1986586898|title=Collected Stories|rating=5|genre=Going To The Last: Short Stories|summary=In this collection, stories are taken from two previous volumes, Blood and Where You Find It. The forty-two snap shots of life are mainly of women and young girls, struggling with emotions, sometimes realized and sometimes not. In all, there seems to be an underlying link of isolation and truth. The settings are varied, from a visit to the dentist to the place known as home, to a walk in the evening. We have a peek into the deepest darkest corners of everyday relationships, with lovers, partners and most of all ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540398</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAbout Horse Racing|author=Shirley Jackson|title=The Lottery and Other StoriesK 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. Time may have lessened sensibilities over H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. 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 punchpile-up occurred at the 23rd fence.|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 Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, master of cleared the gothic horror short story, fence and Gris Grimlygalloped to the line, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales winning the race at odds of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>
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|rating=3.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=A jobbing guitarist from an Eastern European country, playing in Venice, is given a most singular gig little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by an ageingthe opportunity to read the sequel, passing crooner''Hell's Unveiling''. An old friend It's probably not much of a couple at loggerheads stays spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in their flat''Marsha's Deal'', but enters a nightmare world of comedy, doing greater and greater wrongs the devil is not one to cover his first transgressiontake defeat lying down. A younger couple running He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a cafe employ 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a friend to help outstrong person, despite his wish she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to hide in the hills juvenile detention and compose new songs for his not-very illustrious careerrefused permission to return to live with Marsha.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057124498X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aleksandar Hemon |title=Love and Obstacles|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=We start with the young narrator away from homeThen, and in Africaof course, due there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to his diplomat fatherthe devil's evil ends. He's left behind home, a potential girlfriend, out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and more, but finds company as with an oldermany foster children, chancer character and his junkie girlfriend, and their pot, drinks and 70s rockself-esteem is very fragile. Closer to his rootsThis is no small-scale operation, but still either - the devil has set up a young man abroadtraining complex on earth, the second story sees him travelling across his homeland on complete with an errand - elevator to deliver payment for the biggest chest freezer his father could find. But poems, losing his virginity, keeping his money, and various other fantasies might just put a cooler on that unusual task..Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330464434</amazonuk>
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