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{{newreview|author=Margo Lanagan|title=Yellowcake|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=We should always make time for short stories. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In I've heard it said that 'Yellowcaketechnology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a traveller boy uses three items few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to reunite an old man me but I'm left with his memoriesthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. A boy with a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up in their harbourSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Rapunzel gets a makeover in which things turn out differently. We find out how Of course, I could research the Ferryman of possibilities and the Dead became probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the Ferrywomanlatest conspiracy theorist. And more I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin BurgessB0CDZRGT1M|title=Krispy Whispers|rating=4|genre=Super Short Stories|summary=''A woman stops you in the road and gazes fearfully into the pram. "Your babies are not human," she says. Then she runs off.'' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Really, really, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story in ''Krispy Whispers'', a series of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get a girl dreaming of riches, a lonely woman who finds a pet and gets a boyfriend too closely together for mere coincidence. And a priest who actually meets God. And a very worrisome monster. Concentrate hard. Because you'll need to keep up...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>}} {{newreview: Flash Fiction|author=Alison Moore|title=The Pre-War House and other short storiesMark C Wallfisch

|summary=Alison Moore's ''Pre-War House'' is Got a collection of 24 short stories, only three of which are original minute to this collectionbe amused, but most were first published in the last couple of years andentertained, unless you are a an avid reader of or challenged?''The New Writer'' they will probably all be new to youThese 100 stories are super short. Moore's themes tend to concentrate on fairly dark characters, usually with a hidden secret, and None is more often than not dealing with the past and frequently some kind of personal loss or anguish300 words. If you enjoyed Moore's Booker Prize shortlisted [[The Lighthouse by Alison Moore|The Lighthouse]], you will find plenty to enjoy here as most of the stories have You can read one in a similar hauntingly sad feel to themflash. With one possible exception, a very short piece called ''The Yacht Man'' which did nothing for me, the stories Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are beautifully judged and equally satisfying, often saving a final hit or a surprise until the end of the piecesshort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773509</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Robert Walser|title=The Walk and other stories|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The publication of this collection Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of around forty short stories affords the English speaking public a unique opportunity; fully rounded little story if that of reading Walser, possibly the leading modernist writer of Swiss German story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the last century. He has received high praise flash fictions in a book of them? I don'A Place in the Countryt know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, W G Sebald's recently published posthumous collection and he is well-known as being author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a significant influence on Franz Kafkathree hundred word limit. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 and along with his poetry won him recognition with BerlinThat's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing about a single page in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader and provokes him to new insightsyour average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ted OlingerRachel Harrison|title=The Woodpecker MenaceBad Dolls

|summary=The Key Peninsula is It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a small spur couple of land on misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the Puget Sound in Washington state, shaped - you guessed it - like books from a key. Its resident are disparate boy I fancied at school and include both incomers and those whoscaring 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'd see themselves as pioneer settlers. But theyt worry - this short story collection isn're joined in a communal sense of island living. t like that! Itdoesn's on a much smaller scalet have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, but and I think found most British people can feel affinity with identifying of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as an islander. It flavours our relationship a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with continental Europe in so many waysgrief. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0984840036</amazonuk>1803363932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)B0CCCVRSGX|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories2|ratingauthor=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in length. From the very short ''Spirit of Madame de Genlis'', warning of the dire consequences of selecting literature for a mollycoddled princess, to the novella-length ''The Enchanted Wanderer'' telling the tale of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victims, Leskov (aided greatly by the talented translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks the mores, traditions, religion and superstitions of 19th century Russia for a modern readership.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roberto Saviano, Carlo Lucarelli, Valeria Parrella, Piero Colaprico, Wu Ming, Simona Vinci|title=OutsidersF Walker

|summary=This is Richard F Walker''Outsiders'' is a collection s second volume of six pieces short stories. There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of writing by Italian authorsthem. The pieces have been collated from There isn't a supplement single one that doesn't deserve to an Italian daily newspaper and six have been chosen around be among the theme of outsiders for translation into English. Thus, others or brings down the pieces themselves were not written around this specific theme but have rather had this theme imposed on them in this collectionoverall quality. Since the outsider is often used in various forms by writers It can be tricky to observe the status quoreview short stories without giving too much away, this is not so I'll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a big leap of imaginationgeneral flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052446</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Aimee Bender|title=Willful Creatures|rating=4I've got a couple of confessions to make.5|genre=Short Stories|summary= In this collection we I're shown the reaction of ten men with terminal illness prognoses, m not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a large man purchasing a very unusual pet few stories and then forget to return to the case of book. There's got to be a hard-done-by boyfriendvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. There are also delights like Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the shop that sells words crafted into what they read, a boy technology which takes centre stage along with keys instead of fingers and the beautifully touching tale of the pumpkinworld-headed mother building. It's human beings who gives birth to an iron-headed babyfascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. NoSo, this isn't your average collection what did I think of a book of predictable short stories; these are [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee Bender]] twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558858</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen RussellB09XZMCDVF|title=Vampires in the Lemon GroveStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=54

|summary=I know you shouldn't judge a book by 'A news vendor is crying out the cover, but when headlines in the cover has a title like ''Vampires in middle of the Lemon Grove'', I can't help but be night; a little intrigued, especially wheelchair user loses touch with reality when the author has he tries walking around in his imagination; a recent history like Karen Russell's. This history includes stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a Guardian award nomination for volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a previous collection lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with another great title; ''St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolveshis feet, and awfully familiar…'' and a Pulitzer Prize shortlisting for her novel, [[Swamplandia! by Karen Russell|Swamplandia!]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187883</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=George Mann (Editor)|title=Encounters This collection of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic reader.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as he was back in Tying them together is the late 1800sidea that remarkable and strange, maybe even more miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so with the advent this little treasury of TV short fiction is never boring and film adaptations of his adventures. Indeed, such is the lasting appeal of the character that since the death of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works published, picking up where the original stories left offyou're never quite sure what's coming next. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Prajwal Parajuly1737030942|title=The GurkhaBag O's DaughterGoodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=54|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Parajuly is the son Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of an Indian father and Nepalese mother hailing from Gangtok in the Indian Himalayaswhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, but spending most so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his time somewhere between New York and Oxfordcharacters. His insight is therefore something we should probably trustWell...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872933</amazonuk>most of them!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rich1529418100|title=The Last Girlfriend on EarthBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating=54

|summary=There is more opportunity than ever these days to downsize your library. You can take I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all those lumpen classics too easy to put the charity shop now that they can be downloaded for free onto an ebook down between stories and forget to pick it up again -reader. And with these couple of hundred pages you can also divest yourself of but I am a heck fan of a lot of fiction about love, for this can easily replace Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so much youthe temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge''ve read at greater length, with less imagination was hard to resist and with much less humour elsewhereI'm rather glad that I didn't even try. That hyperbole is only partly inspired by For those new to the style of series, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the contents, for it really background to why Bruno is that goodin St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668921X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Child (Editor)B08NF79QXT|title=VengeanceCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43|genre=CrimeWomen's Fiction|summary=I like short story collectionsThirty-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. TheyShe're useful reading material when yous delighted and the two people she're a mum of young children as you can usually manage s brought with her to squeeze in a six page story at nap time, but youthe event couldn're guaranteed if you try to start that 500 page novel you've been meaning to read that just as it starts to get interesting your baby will wake up! t be more pleased. This collection of crime stories Sonja, her mother, is brought together under the title of an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty'Vengeances best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica' sos husband, as you'd imagine, they are all to do with revenge Charles and people getting or trying to get their own backfour-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899015</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah LevyB08KKQ85FN|title=Black VodkaBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona

|summary=''Black Vodka'' is If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a collection pampered peacock about to be released into the company of ten previously published short pieces carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of writing by Deborah Levybus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, many do you? We first published met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the early 2000s. The most recent is Italian Government but the piece from which this collection gains its title which time has been shortlisted come for HE to retires and for the 2012 BBC International Short Story AwardSandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. As a compilation of her writing, obviously these were not written to appear together, but some clear themes emerge from Well 'settled' rather overstates the collectionsituation and their dog, namely a deeply disturbing look at the search for loveBeagle, particularly amongst those on the edge has no intention of society|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276169</amazonuk>slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joyce Carol OatesB08CHJLNBS|title=The Corn Maiden and Other NightmaresCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=Many years agoHe's Charles Devereaux, I stumbled across thirty-eight and a Joyce Carol Oates story in a horror anthologypartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. What I most remember about She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the story was how vividly the feelings the characters experienced were portrayedheritage library next door. Whilst the story itself was not exactly Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a horror story in the mould little deeper. Charles is more of Stephen King and James Herberta [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, it was very well presentedhe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. With They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this experience, I had high hopes woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmaresrelationship' s obviously a brand new collection of short stories from Oates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800224</amazonuk>non-starter, isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin Jones Marie O'Regan and Ashley Stokes Paul Kane (Editorseditors)|title=UnthologyCursed: No. 3An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales

|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=Unthank Books have brought out their third annual short story 'unthologyCurses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. (See what they did there?) The series is described Children can be cursed, as showcasing can princesses on the ''unconventionalverge of marrying, unpredictable and experimentalolder people too. It seems in a way there'' which is correct as far as s no escaping it goes. They omit words that I personally would have included; words like 'refreshing' and 'excitingly different' because, if I needed Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to be convinced know about short stories (andthis accursed character, being a fanthat demonised place, I donand that other bewitched person. We't) they would d be the clinchervery wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957289707</amazonuk>1789091500

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tania HershmanStibbe_Xmas|title=My Mother Was An Upright Piano: FictionsAlmost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=It's said that Christmas – the art time of short-story writing is totally different from traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that of novels as – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the writer only has ten or so pages to accomplish what others do in two downstairs loo to three hundred. Imagine, thereforedefrost overnight, telling an entire story in prose conveying depth and meaning in fewer words than this review. It may be difficult but, apparently, not downright impossible as [[:Category:Tania Hershman|Tania Hershman]] has nailed if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it with honours. In fact her first collection [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]] treatment was commended by the Orange Prize judges of 2009your next best bet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906477604</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Henley|title=One Dog and His Man|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=Oberon is a Labrador with a pedigree as long as your arm and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what Nowadays it's like living with the man he generously refers all having to as ''The Boss'make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, about life in general and the ways of the worldget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Think Christmas, though, is of him as the canine equivalent course also a time of the parliamentary sketch writer, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of human life plump people who can hire red suits and bring beards, it was always a gentle humour godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriously. Before aunties you wonder how this is possible - how saw twice a dog can decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After allchild, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes', but it's as for the humans who are trainedmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, not did they even try and sell them any other time of the dogs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>year?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph O'Connor0954899520|title=Where Have You Been?A Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson

|summary=Irish novelist Joseph OTove Jansson'Connor has had quite a 2012. Earlier s worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the year he joined 1940s and later becoming television characters of the ranks of such authors as Edna Osimplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness'Brienthat would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, [[:Category:Roddy Doyle|Roddy Doyle]] and Seamus Heaney when he became a recipient of the PEN award for his outstanding contribution to Irish literaturesimple stories, simple goodness. What could possibly top 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 sense feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of achievement? Well this, his first book of short stories in 20 years, must come pretty close to at least equalling it, amply illustrating how the reasons for the panel's decisionworld might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556899</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Desai1911115847|title=The Artist Nights of Disappearancethe Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating=4.5

|summary=Anita Desai's ''The Artist Nights of Disappearancethe Creaking Bed'' is a collection of three novellas with several satisfying unifying featuresshort stories by Toni Kan. All are set The series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in modern day Indiaand around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, all involve some looking back in time and all three involve some consideration this collection, is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the creative art - who it is shadows and people are killed for, what happens to it once it leaves the artist's control and who 'owns' itnothing more than a wrong look. Most of all, each one is beautifully written, Kan writes with strong characters a vitality and evocative descriptions of personal loss. In terms of length each is relatively short - around 50 pages long - but after each one you feel passion that you've been engrossed in the story just as much as if you had read allows these cynical stories to achieve a novel glimmer of more conventional lengthhope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553953</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roddy Doyle1529014484|title=BullfightingExhalation |author=Ted Chiang

|summary=I've often wondered what goes through an authorThis satisfying collection of short stories has a provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of the antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he was fond of and had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead of mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's mind how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to the next time they sit down to write after winning Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a major literary prize. Does it put undue pressure on an authorfake, thinking but the friendship that they will have to write something equally as good or better next time around? Some writers can wilt under grew between the pressure buyer and future offerings are derided by critics as 'the repairer of watches was not as good as (insert title here)'. But some thrive under and the weight seed of expectation and continue to write wonderful storiesan idea for a book was born. 1993 Booker Prize winner [[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle|Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]] falls firmly into this latter category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955562X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry Wells1529006031|title=Kicking the Hornets' NestReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors

|summary=WWII books about In following a young girl called Alice down the RAF and the Navy are quite common. Books about Special Operations Executive and similar organisations proliferate. Stories about the army are fewer and try as I might I really couldn't think of one which was other than incidentally about tank crewrabbit hole a few years ago, so when the opportunity came I ''had'' to read 'Kicking the Hornets' Nest' particularly as itfirst book she was in [[Alice's written Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by an author who crewed a Sherman tank in Operation OverlordLewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], back in June 1944. I had just a couple of nagging doubts. Itfound that I didn's a book of short stories. Would I t really find too much favour with it easy to pick up - and out down again? . The big worry was whether or wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not this was going to be a macho action storygel, which wouldnand I don't really be my cup of tea at allremember loving it more as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780881568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Simpson|title=A Bunch of Fives|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary= But I will come straight out with it at the top of this review and state that would suggest I am a big fan of Helen Simpson. So the perfect audience for this book, which is a selection of five stories from each of her five collections, is right up my street. All I’ve got I had every chance to do now is convince you enjoy these short stories that you need to read it too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561573</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Gray|title=Next|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=That Keith Gray hangs out with all come at the cool peoplecore from a tangent, you know. Hot on that show the heels benefits of one fabulous anthology of short stories all about virginitythe oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, [[Losing It by Keith Gray|Losing It]]allegedly throw-away pieces, comes ''Next''. The topic this time is life after death and it's another preoccupation the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for young people. WhatBree Tanner's next? What will it be like? How will those left behind manage and cope? Each of short novella than the cool people contributes an idea whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of what death may bring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393001</amazonuk>greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Bennett1846974658|title=The Crabber StoriesLong Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker

|summary=John White was known On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to everyone as Crabber - a nickname which he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew end up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteenany bookshop that is selling English-fifties. It was a closelanguage books, and while I buy as many second-knit community and a time when children had more freedom than they are likely to be allowed now. We watch hand escapist tales as Crabber grows from being a boy still suffering from the death of his elder brother when we first met him through to a time when henext person, what I's old enough to go on a hunting trip on m really looking for is the mainland with a 'local family' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. He tells his own storiesIf I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, as truthfully as he I can and with the sort of insight which children have read before life injects its cynicismI go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny ThomasB077969HN8|title=All Shall be WellAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in 'The Infernal Republic'Alternative Medicine'' as '' is black comedy with a collection twist of short stories containing a mixture of general fiction, horror and fantasy published by Signal8Press, an imprint of author Marshall Mooresurrealism''s own publishing company Typhoon Media Ltd. Now normally I'm rather glad that I wouldndidn't pay much attention to who publishes the books see this until ''after'' I read, but in this case 'd finished reading as I'm making an exception because not normally a fan of either, but I can't honestly believe that any traditional ve come to two conclusions about the book: what the publisher would have put out this book in this formsays is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The whole collection comedy is not ''too'' black and the surrealism is so badly crying out for gentle and perhaps best described as a good editor that twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it actually ended up making me angry . Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in placesthe nicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881516404</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc Nash9386897504|title=52FFTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon

|summary=52FF is I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a collection great deal of skill and talent to write a short stories in story which holds the flash fiction formatreader and keeps them coming back for more. If There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you're new to flash fiction, you should know there are various definitions but here, Marc Nash chooses ve read a format couple of under 1,000 wordspieces. This gives him some leeway and so the pieces are in I've recently read a wide variety couple of styles novellas by Laura Solomon - some experimental - but all of them exploring a single central metaphor [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and all with a darkness about enjoyed them which is sometimes explicit and sometimes only emerges after you've had time , so I was intrigued to think and digestsee what she could do with an even shorter form. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IHMZR6</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John E Flannery1986586898|title=Our Little Secret and Other Going To The Last: Short StoriesAbout Horse Racing|author=K D Knight|rating=34.5

|summary=It's over eighteen months since we first encountered John Flannery In the opening story, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his debut collection of shorts stories, [[Tobywife. In 's Little Eden by John E Flannery|Toby's Little Eden]]. A golf course near Manchester and Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the characters who populated it came sharply problem of whether or not to life and we laughed and we smiled along with themrun his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. Things are different in My favourite was ''Our little Secret and Other StoriesThe Story of H'' as we encounter violent death, suicide, delusion and mental illnessthe story of Foinavon. It's H is depicted as a good read but it's certainly not kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a comfortable no-hoper. In oneof the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile-up occurred at the 23rd fence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007CKT6PG< Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Etgar Keret9386897296|title=Suddenly, a Knock on the Door Hell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5

|summary=In A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opening, titular story, Keret is forced by several people opportunity to createread the sequel, and alter, a short short story''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a plain metaphor for spoiler to say that Marsha bested the history of Israeldevil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but it proves that this modern Scheherazade the devil is not too far removed geographically from the originalone to take defeat lying down. And what follows are probably the sort He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of shortas a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, tantalisingshe's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, open-endedof course, roughthere are all the other children who are not only targeted but -roundworst of all -subverted to the-edges and surreal results of being compelled devil's evil ends. He's out to carry prey on telling tall tales their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on a nightly basisearth, complete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186674</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Ray Fawkes|title=One Soul|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When reading this it soon becomes very clear we're reading not one, but nineteen, stories. With each page divided into a regular 3x3 grid there are eighteen images on each double page spread, and every one shows an episode, or a beat, of a different character's life in turn, from being a babe-in-arms Move to death. However, the way they join up - everyone's figurative moment comes at once, at times the artist's heavy black ink makes all eighteen images coincide into one image - proves there is a separate, individual tale around [[Newest Spirituality and behind the others, one which will end with the most delightful moral - that the ability to be anything one imagines is in our DNA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1934964662</amazonuk>}}Religion Reviews]]