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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=George Mann Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (EditorEditors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M|title=Encounters of Sherlock HolmesSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch
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|summary=Parajuly is the son of an Indian father and Nepalese mother hailing from Gangtok in the Indian Himalayas''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, but spending most of his time somewhere between New York and Oxfordor challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. His insight None is therefore something we should probably trustmore than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872933</amazonuk>}}''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lee Child (Editor)Rachel Harrison|title=VengeanceBad Dolls
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|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=It's been some time since I like short story collections've read any horror. They're useful I had a couple of misspent teen years reading material when youStephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn're a mum t shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of young children as you can usually manage to squeeze in a six page the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story at nap time, but youcollection isn're guaranteed if you try to start t like that 500 page novel you! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn've been meaning t have to read that just as it starts to get interesting your baby will wake upduring daylight hours only! This collection But it is creepy, and I found most of crime that feeling came from the fact that these are stories is brought together under about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the title of ''Vengeance'' sohorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, as you'd imaginetrying a new dieting app, they are all going to do a hen party and a coping with revenge and people getting or trying to get their own backgrief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857899015</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah LevyB0CCCVRSGX|title=Black VodkaStories 2|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This is Richard F Walker''Black Vodka'' is a collection s second volume of ten previously published short pieces stories. There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of writing by Deborah Levy, many first published in the early 2000sthem. The most recent is There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve to be among the piece from which this collection gains its title which has been shortlisted for others or brings down the 2012 BBC International Short Story Awardoverall quality. As a compilation of her writingIt can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, obviously these were not written so I'll just pick two to appear together, but some clear themes emerge from the collection, namely talk about and I think they give a deeply disturbing look at the search for love, particularly amongst those on the edge of society|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276169</amazonuk>general flavour.
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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=Joyce Carol OatesB09XZMCDVF|title=The Corn Maiden and Other NightmaresStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=54
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|summary=Many years ago, I stumbled across ''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a Joyce Carol Oates story stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a horror anthology. What I most remember about volunteer teacher proves the story was how vividly ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the feelings the characters experienced were portrayed. Whilst the story itself was not exactly a horror story in new boy on the mould of Stephen King and James Herbert, it was pub football team is very well presented. With this experienceuseful with his feet, I had high hopes of and awfully familiar…'The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares' a brand new collection of short stories from Oates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800224</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania Hershman1737030942|title=My Mother Was An Upright Piano: FictionsBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=54|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=ItSometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's said that the art of short-story ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing is totally different from that about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of novels as the writer only has ten or so pages to accomplish what others do in two to three hundredhappens when five young men find a base for their partying. ImagineRight now, thereforeI didn't want a full-length novel, telling an entire story in prose conveying depth so I turned to this anthology of verse and meaning in fewer words than this reviewshort stories. It may be difficult but, apparently, not downright impossible as [[:Category:Tania Hershman|Tania Hershman]] Bittick's writing has nailed it with honoursmatured - and so have his characters. In fact her first collection [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]] was commended by the Orange Prize judges Well... most of 2009.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906477604</amazonuk>them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Henley1529418100|title=One Dog Bruno's Challenge and His ManOther Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=PetsShort Stories|summary=Oberon is I'm not usually a Labrador with fan of 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 pedigree as long as your arm and fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker'One Dog and His Mans Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read '' is his story about what itBruno's like living with the man he generously refers to as Challenge''The Bosswas hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn', about life in general and the ways of the worldt even try. Think of him as the canine equivalent of For those new to the parliamentary sketch writerseries, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life and bring a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriously. Before 's an excellent introduction that will tell you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind all you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After all, dogs and their humans might go need to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes', but itknow about who's the humans who are trained, not and the dogsbackground to why Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph O'ConnorB08NF79QXT|title=Where Have You Been?Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Literary Women's Fiction|summary=Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had quite a 2012her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. Earlier in She's delighted and the year he joined two people she's brought with her to the ranks of such authors as Edna Oevent couldn'Brient be more pleased. Sonja, [[her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian:Categoryyou can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend:Roddy Doyle|Roddy Doyle]] they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and Seamus Heaney when he became a recipient of the PEN award for his outstanding contribution to Irish literaturetheir four-year-old daughter, Ava. What could possibly top that Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a sense of achievement? Well this, his first book of short stories man in 20 years, must come pretty close to at least equalling it, amply illustrating the reasons for the panel's decisionher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556899</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B08KKQ85FN
|title=But Never For Lunch
|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roddy DoyleB08CHJLNBS|title=BullfightingCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=IHe've often wondered what goes through an authors Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's mind Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next time they sit down to write after winning a major literary prizedoor. Does it put undue pressure 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 an authorsomeone else's philosophies, thinking that they will have to write something equally as good or better next time around? a little deeper. Some writers can wilt under the pressure and future offerings are derided Charles is more of a [[Personal by critics as Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian'not as good as (insert title here)'. But some thrive under the weight They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of expectation and continue his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to write wonderful storieshis friends. 1993 Booker Prize winner [[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Roddy Doyle|Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]] falls firmly into this latter category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955562X</amazonuk>Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerry WellsMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Kicking the Hornets' NestCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=WWII books about the RAF and the Navy are quite commonCurses. Books about Special Operations Executive and similar organisations proliferate. Stories about the army are fewer and try as I might I really couldnThey't think re there throughout tales of one which was faery and other than incidentally about tank crewfantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, so when the opportunity came I ''had'' or not to be able to read 'Kicking do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the Hornets' Nest' particularly as it's written by an author who crewed a Sherman tank in Operation Overlordverge of marrying, back and older people too. It seems in June 1944. I had just a couple of nagging doubts. Itway there's a no escaping it. Which is why the theme of this book of short stories. Would I find it easy is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to pick up - and out down again? The big worry was whether or not know about this was going to be a macho action storyaccursed character, that demonised place, which wouldnand that other bewitched person. We't really d be my cup of tea at allvery wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780881568</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SimpsonStibbe_Xmas|title=A Bunch of FivesAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=I will come straight out with Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it at sat on the top of this review downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and 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 state organic – but not too organic that I am a big fan of Helen Simpsonyou can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. So this bookChristmas, though, which is of course also a selection time of five stories from each great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of her five collectionsplump people who can hire red suits and beards, is right up my street. All I’ve got it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to do now is convince aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you need to read it too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561573</amazonuk>write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Gray0954899520|title=NextA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson
|rating=5
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=That Keith Gray hangs out with all Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the cool peopleMoomin books, you know. Hot on written in the heels 1940s and later becoming television characters of one fabulous anthology of short stories all about virginitythe simplicity, [[Losing It by Keith Gray|Losing It]], comes ''Nextnaivety and sheer 'goodness'that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. The topic this time What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the natural world and the simple life after death and it's another preoccupation for young people. What's next? What will it be that not only informed those child-like? How will those left behind manage and cope? Each trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the cool people contributes an idea of what death may bringworld might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Bennett1911115847|title=The Crabber StoriesNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=John White was known to everyone as Crabber - ''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a nickname which he once earned collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and which then stuck - lusts of an assortment of characters living in and he grew up on the shores around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of Long Island in darkness. Danger stalks the nineteen-fifties. It was a close-knit community shadows and a time when children had people are killed for nothing more freedom than they are likely to be allowed nowa wrong look. We watch as Crabber grows from being Kan writes with a boy still suffering from the death of his elder brother when we first met him through to a time when he's old enough vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to go on a hunting trip on the mainland with achieve a local family. He tells his own stories, as truthfully as he can and with the sort glimmer of insight which children have before life injects its cynicismhope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny Thomas1529014484|title=All Shall be WellExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesScience Fiction|summary=Twenty five Over the past twenty-eight years , Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty- seven major science fiction awards so if you are a quarter of a century - science fiction fan it is a long time. It's an incredible length likely that you have already come across some of time as an independent publisher, particularly one which specialises in publishing the best in Welsh women's writing, but that's exactly what Honno have achievedwork by Ted Chiang. To celebrate the occasion theyIf you haven've published t then take this anthology of twenty five short stories and non-fiction piecesopportunity to do so now. They've previously been seen in the numerous anthologies published by Honno but when combined they give an interesting and enlightening insight into the work of these great writersTrust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784337</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marshall Moore1794467440|title=The Infernal RepublicWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating=24
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''The Infernal Republic'' is a This satisfying collection of short stories containing has a mixture of general fiction, horror and fantasy published by Signal8Press, an imprint provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of author Marshall Moore's own publishing company Typhoon Media Ltd. Now normally I wouldn't pay much attention to who publishes the books I read, but in this case I'm making an exception because I can't honestly believe that any traditional publisher would have put out this book in this form. The whole collection is so badly crying out for a good editor antique watches that inspired it actually ended up making me angry in places.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881516404</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John E Flannery1529006031|title=Our Little Secret and Other StoriesReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors|rating=34.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It's over eighteen months since we In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first encountered John Flannery and his debut collection of shorts stories, book she was in [[TobyAlice's Little Eden Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by John E FlanneryLewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|Toby's Little Edenhit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. A golf course near Manchester 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 characters who populated it came sharply perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to life and we laughed and we smiled along with themenjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. Things are different in I've always preferred coming to an author'Our little Secret and Other Stories'' as we encounter violent deaths output through their least obvious, suicideallegedly throw-away pieces, delusion and mental illness. Itit's a good read but itthe same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's certainly not short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a comfortable onehunch, for obvious reasons).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007CKT6PG</amazonuk> For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Etgar Keret1846974658|title=Suddenly, a Knock on the Door The Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In On my travels around the openingworld, titular story, Keret I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is forced by several people to createselling English-language books, and alterwhile I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, a short short story. Itwhat I's a plain metaphor m really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the history of Israelmaps definitely, but it proves that this modern Scheherazade is not too far removed geographically from above all: the originalfolk tales. And what follows are probably the sort of shortIf I ever get to Burma, tantalisingI won't need to hunt, open-ended, rough-round-the-edges and surreal results of being compelled to carry on telling tall tales on a nightly basisI can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186674</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray FawkesB077969HN8|title=One SoulAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary='Burning your Boats' brings together CarterLaura Solomon's early works and her uncollected publisher describes the short stories, alongside the collections in 'Fireworks', Alternative Medicine'The Bloody Chamber', as 'Black Venus' and black comedy with a twist of surrealism'American Ghosts'. CarterI'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I's ability m not normally a fan of either, but I've come to take two conclusions about the book: what the everyday publisher says is correct - and transform I really enjoyed it into . The comedy is not ''too'' black and the fantastic surrealism is evident in stories that range from gentle and perhaps best described as a cautionary tale twist or flick of a musician in love with his instrument reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances be invaded in the Snow Pavilionnicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592916</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others9386897504|title=The Library Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=I had better begin by saying that I had a vested interest in liking this book since I am a chartered librarian myself and so am wholeheartedly in support Tales of saving our nation's public libraries. But you don't need to be a librarian to enjoy this book. It is rich with anecdotes from some wonderful writers Love and makes a pleasant read whether you're keen to save libraries or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250057</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisability|author=Alexander MacLeod|title=Light LiftingLaura Solomon|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Short stories may not be everyoneI's cup of tea. Sometimes, particularly with first time authors, there is an annoying tendency to be overly experimental. Not so with Alexander MacLeod's stunningly assured debut. True he has genetic 'form' in ve always believed that he is the son less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of novelist skill and talent to write a short story writer [[:Category:Alistair MacLeod|Alistair MacLeod]], but even so, which holds the quality of this collection, is remarkablereader and keeps them coming back for more. The collection There are far too many collections of seven short stories is not overly themed, although certain issues which are all too easy to put down and concerns do reappear, but what binds the stories together is forget after you've read a very human approach to adversity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter O'Donnell|title=Modesty Blaise: Live Bait|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're back in the gritty yet glamorous world couple of Modesty Blaise - at least, as gritty and glamorous as you could get in the Evening Standard daily comic strip in the late 1980spieces. Titan have had a mammoth undertaking to reproduce all the original strips in handy large-format graphic novel compendia, and this latest covers three stories, all of which I consider greater in depth than those in the other volume I've reviewed recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Modesty Blaise: Sweet Caroline Marsha's Deal by Neville Colvin and Peter OLaura Solomon|Marsha'Donnell|Sweet Carolines Deal]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon McGregor|title=This Isnand [[Hell't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like Yous Unveiling by Laura Solomon|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The clue is in the Christopher Brookmyre-styled title. If the events, characters and circumstances in these stories are known to you, then you have my sympathies. A man causes an embarrassment trying to watch his daughterHell's first school nativity play. Another has a phobia of eggs containing an avian foetus when he puts knife Unveiling]] and fork to enjoyed them. There's a car crash here - and there, a drowning, some arson, some theft... and a lot of clues that point so I was intrigued to some national disaster. Take all those clues as one and you eventually see this is more than just a collection of disparate short stories, but a very fractured, obfuscated novelwhat she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tessa Hadley1986586898|title=Married LoveGoing To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Married Love is Tessa Hadley’s second collectionIn the opening story, containing twelve short stories looking at (mostly) modern relationships and family dynamics – many are about parents and their grown up children a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in-lawsthe Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', others are about couplesthe story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. Flicking through After changing hands on various occasions he came to the book to choose some yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the best Grand National and/or most interesting stories to mention, I have found considered a difficultyno-hoper. Almost all In one of the most dramatic runnings of these incisivethe race, witty stories reveal an interesting group of characters I would like to know more about after a pile-up occurred at the end23rd fence. Foinavon, sometimes from several different viewpointswho had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and it is hard galloped to pick out just a fewthe line, winning the race at odds of 100/1. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Ross9386897296|title=Ladies and GentlemenHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Adam RossA little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's characters are driven - but Deal]] and I mean that in was delighted by the opportunity to read the wrong waysequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. TheyIt're s probably not the ones riding on a crest much of a wave of motivationspoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', steering their course through lifebut the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. No, instead they are passengers, He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who or whatever is at the wheel seems to have lost the satnav's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). SoAlthough a strong person, in she'Futuress vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn', a middle-aged unemployed man finds himself giving life lessons t commit and sent to juvenile detention and a kick up the backside refused permission to a teenaged neighbour just as his own career seems about return to enter its nth phaselive with Marsha. Then, with an airyof course, there are all the other children who are not only targeted but -fairy psychicworst of all -oriented company that wonsubverted to the devil't ever go as far as telling him what his job might bes evil ends. A professor who has He's out to settle temporarily where his work takes him prey on their fears and weaknesses and not where he would likeas with many foster children, has to wonder what to do when told of the actiontheir self-packed adventures of a devilesteem is very fragile. This is no small-mayscale operation, either -carethe devil has set up a training complex on earth, come-what-may mechaniccomplete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087746</amazonuk>
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