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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Best British Short Stories 2013All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nicholas Royle 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M
|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction
|author=Mark C Wallfisch
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Expect to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, sourced from a number of short story magazines; or challenged?'Granta', 'Shadows and Tall Trees', These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are just some of the publications in which these pieces were to be seen firstshort. If asked to identify '' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a red thread between the components flavour of Nicholas Royle’s anthology, I would say a fully rounded little story if that in each short story, everything is left told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to simmer under draw out themes from all the surface. There is flash fictions in a frustration brought about book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by the lack explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of clarity in every short storyflash fiction but that for this collection, which to me is author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a reflection of just how unclear the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involvedsingle page in your average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=This CloseRachel Harrison|authortitle=Jessica Francis KaneBad Dolls|rating=54
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=It'This Closes been some time since I' is ve read any horror. I had a sensitively written collection couple of short stories exploring misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the fragile nature point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the bonds connecting friendsvampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, neighbours and family. As the title suggestsI didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories contain pivotal moments where a missed opportunityabout women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, fleeting the horrors arises from very normal situations such as it may bea breakup, can propel trying a person along new dieting app, going to a path culminating in regret or loss. Each story is poignantly written hen party and perceptively observed. As a reader, I was drawn in and became so emotionally involved coping with the characters that it was often impossible to close the book until I knew how each story endedgrief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1555976360</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX|title=Behind the FacadeStories 2|author=Dennis FriedmanRichard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=We have This is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories. There are thirteen in all, at and I took something from each of them. There isn't a single one time or another, wished that we had the ability doesn't deserve to read minds. Imagine how interesting it would be to peer beyond among the external appearance and to understand the various thought processes lurking beneath others or brings down the surfaceoverall quality. Psychiatrist Dennis Friedman gives the reader the opportunity It can be tricky to do just that with his collection of review short stories without giving too much away, so I'Beyond the Facade'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720615070</amazonuk>ll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a 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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin BurgessB09XZMCDVF|title=Krispy WhispersStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''A woman stops you news vendor is crying out the headlines in the road and gazes fearfully into middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pram. "Your babies are not humanpub football team is very useful with his feet," she says. Then she runs off.and awfully familiar…''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Moore1737030942|title=The Pre-War House and other short storiesBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Alison MooreSometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Pre-War House'' is a collection of 24 short stories, only three of which are original to this collection, but most were first published in the last couple of years and, unless you are a an avid reader of 'Bag O'The New WriterGoodies'' they will probably all be new to you. Moore's themes tend to concentrate on fairly dark characters, usually with I first encountered his writing about a hidden secretyear ago, and more often than not dealing with the past and frequently some kind of personal loss or anguish. If you enjoyed Moore's Booker Prize shortlisted when I read his [[The Lighthouse Cape Henry House by Alison MooreJolly Walker Bittick|The LighthouseCape Henry House]], you will a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find plenty to enjoy here as most of the stories have a similar hauntingly sad feel to thembase for their partying. With one possible exception Right now, I didn't want a very full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short piece called stories. Bittick''The Yacht Man'' which did nothing for me, the stories are beautifully judged s writing has matured - and equally satisfying, often saving a final hit or a surprise until the end so have his characters. Well... most of the pieces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773509</amazonuk>them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Walser1529418100|title=The Walk and other stories|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The publication of this collection of around forty short stories affords the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that of reading Walser, possibly the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in the last century. He has received high praise in 'A Place in the Country', W G Sebald's recently published posthumous collection and he is well-known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 and along with his poetry won him recognition with BerlinBruno's avant garde. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflection. It challenges the reader Challenge and provokes him to new insights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Dordogne Tales|author=Ted Olinger|title=The Woodpecker MenaceMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=The Key Peninsula is I'm not usually a small spur fan of land on short stories - I find it all too easy to put the Puget Sound in Washington state, shaped - you guessed book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - like but I am a key. Its resident are disparate fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and include both incomers and those whoI'd see themselves as pioneer settlers. But theym rather glad that I didn're joined in a communal sense of island livingt even try. It For those new to the series, there's on a much smaller scale, but I think most British people can feel affinity with identifying as an islander. It flavours our relationship with continental Europe excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in so many waysSt Denis. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0984840036</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikolai Leskov, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)B08NF79QXT|title=The Enchanted Wanderer and Other StoriesCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43|genre=Literary Women's Fiction|summary=This is a collection of 17 Nikolai Leskov stories as mixed in subject matter as they are in lengthThirty-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. From She's delighted and the very short ''Spirit of Madame de Genlistwo people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, warning of the dire consequences of selecting literature for a mollycoddled princessher mother, to the novellais an ex-length model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty'The Enchanted Wanderers best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica' telling the tale of the apparently immortal monk who prayed for suicide victimss husband, Leskov (aided greatly by the talented translators Richard Pevear Charles and Larissa Volokhonsky) unlocks the morestheir four-year-old daughter, traditions, religion and superstitions of 19th century Russia Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a modern readershipman in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099577356</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roberto Saviano, Carlo Lucarelli, Valeria Parrella, Piero Colaprico, Wu Ming, Simona VinciB08KKQ85FN|title=OutsidersBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''Outsiders'' is If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a collection of six pieces of writing by Italian authors. The pieces have been collated from Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a supplement pampered peacock about to an Italian daily newspaper and six have been chosen around be released into the theme company of outsiders for translation into English. Thuscarrion crows or, more to the pieces themselves were not written around this specific theme but have rather had this theme imposed on them in this collection. Since the outsider is often used in various forms by writers point, about to observe discover the status quo, this is not a big leap real world of imaginationbus timetables and paying his own gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052446</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen RussellB08CHJLNBS|title=Vampires in the Lemon GroveCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=I know you shouldnHe't judge s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a book by the coverpartner at Wickham Jones, but when the cover has a title like Mayfair letting agents. She''Vampires s Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the Lemon Groveheritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, I can't help but be to something a little intrigueddeeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, especially when the author has a recent history like Karen Russellabove all, he'sshocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. This history includes a Guardian award nomination for a previous collection with another great title; They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She'St. Lucys not his usual type at all: it's Home for Girls Raised obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by WolvesCharles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship' and s obviously a Pulitzer Prize shortlisting for her novelnon-starter, [[Swamplandia! by Karen Russell|Swamplandia!]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187883</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George Mann Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (Editoreditors)|title=Encounters Cursed: An Anthology of Sherlock HolmesDark Fairy Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Fantasy|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon Curses. They're there throughout tales of English literature; perhaps as popular today faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, as he was back in can princesses on the late 1800sverge of marrying, maybe even more so with and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the advent theme of TV and film adaptations this book of his adventures. Indeed, short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is the lasting appeal of the to know about this accursed character , that since the death of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works publisheddemonised place, picking up where the original stories left offand that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Prajwal ParajulyStibbe_Xmas|title=The Gurkha's DaughterAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Parajuly is Christmas – the son time of an Indian father traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and Nepalese mother hailing from Gangtok in if that failed the Indian Himalayashair-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, but spending most of his time somewhere between New York and Oxfordget too friendly with it to want to eat it. His insight Christmas, though, is therefore something we should probably trustof course also a time of great boons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872933</amazonuk>It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you 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=Simon Rich0954899520|title=The Last Girlfriend on EarthA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson
|rating=5
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=There is more opportunity than ever these days to downsize your library. You can take all those lumpen classics to Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the charity shop now simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that they can be downloaded for free onto an e-readerwould later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. And with these couple of hundred pages you can also divest yourself What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a heck of serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a lot of fiction about love, feeling for this can easily replace so much you've read at greater length, with less imagination the natural world and with much less humour elsewhere. That hyperbole is the simple life that not only partly inspired by the style informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the contents, for it really is that goodworld might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668921X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lee Child (Editor)1911115847|title=VengeanceNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=I like short story collections. They're useful reading material when you're a mum Nights of young children as you can usually manage to squeeze in a six page story at nap time, but youthe Creaking Bed'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! This is a collection of crime short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories is brought together under tell of the title lives and lusts of an assortment of ''Vengeance'' socharacters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, as you'd imaginein this collection, they is imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and people are all to do killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with revenge a vitality and people getting or trying passion that allows these cynical stories to get their own backachieve a glimmer of hope.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=Exhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating=5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>0857899015</amazonuk>Science Fiction|summary=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 science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. If you haven't then take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Levy1794467440|title=Black VodkaWatchwords |author=Philip Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''Black Vodka'' is a This satisfying collection of ten previously published short pieces of writing by Deborah Levy, many first published in the early 2000s. The most recent is the piece from which this collection gains its title which stories has been shortlisted for the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award. As a compilation of her writing, obviously these were not written to appear together, but some clear themes emerge from the collection, namely a deeply disturbing look provenance at least as beguiling as the search for love, particularly amongst those on provenance of the edge of society|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908276169</amazonuk>}}antique watches that inspired it.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin Jones and Ashley Stokes (Editors)1529006031|title=Unthology: No. 3Return to Wonderland|author=Various Authors
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Unthank Books have brought out their third annual short story In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice'unthologys 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. (See what they did there?) The series is described as showcasing wacky-for-the ''unconventional-sake-of-it did not gel, unpredictable and experimentalI don'' which is correct t remember loving it more as far as it goesa child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. They omit words I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. I personally would have included; words like 'refreshingve always preferred coming to an author' s output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it'excitingly differents the same with franchises – I' because, if I needed to be convinced about d more likely go for Bree Tanner's short stories novella than the whole Twilight saga (and, being although that remains just a fanhunch, I don'tfor obvious reasons) they would be the clincher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957289707</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=Tania Hershman1846974658|title=My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=It's said that the art of short-story writing is totally different from that of novels as the writer only has ten or so pages to accomplish what others do in two to three hundred. Imagine, therefore, 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 it with honours. In fact her first collection [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]] was commended by the Orange Prize judges of 2009.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906477604</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLong Path To Wisdom|author=Mike Henley|title=One Dog and His ManJan-Philipp Sendker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I've often wondered what goes through an author's mind On my travels around the next time they sit down to write after winning a major literary prize. Does it put undue pressure on an authorworld, thinking that they will I have a tendency to write something equally end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as good or better the next time around? Some writers can wilt under person, what I'm really looking for is the pressure and future offerings are derided by critics as 'not as good as (insert title here)local'– the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all: the folk tales. But some thrive under the weight of expectation and continue If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to write wonderful stories. 1993 Booker Prize winner [[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle|Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]] falls firmly into this latter categoryhunt, I can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955562X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry WellsB077969HN8|title=Kicking the Hornets' NestAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=WWII books about 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 couldnLaura Solomon't think of one which was other than incidentally about tank crew, so when s publisher describes the opportunity came I short stories in ''hadAlternative Medicine'' to read as 'Kicking the Hornets' Nestblack comedy with a twist of surrealism' particularly as it's written by an author who crewed a Sherman tank in Operation Overlord, back in June 1944. I had just a couple of nagging doubts. It's a book of short stories. Would m rather glad that I find it easy to pick up - and out down again? The big worry was whether or not didn't see this was going to be a macho action story, which wouldnuntil ''after''t really be my cup of tea at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780881568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Simpson|title=A Bunch of Fives|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=I will come straight out with it at the top of this review and state that 'd finished reading as I am 'm not normally a big fan of Helen Simpson. So this bookeither, which is a selection of five stories from each of her five collections, is right up my street. All I’ve got but I've come to do now two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is convince you that you need to read correct - and I really enjoyed it too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561573</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Gray|title=Next|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=That Keith Gray hangs out with all the cool people, you know. Hot on the heels of one fabulous anthology of short stories all about virginity, [[Losing It by Keith Gray|Losing It]], comes The comedy is not ''Nexttoo''. The topic this time black and the surrealism is life after death gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it's another preoccupation for young people. What's next? What will it Your comfort zones are going to be like? How will those left behind manage and cope? Each of invaded in the cool people contributes an idea of what death may bringnicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393001</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis Bennett9386897504|title=The Crabber StoriesTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=John White was known to everyone as Crabber I've always believed that less- able writers produce longer books: it takes a nickname which he once earned great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which then stuck - holds the reader and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fiftieskeeps them coming back for more. It was a close-knit community There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a time when children had more freedom than they are likely to be allowed nowcouple of pieces. We watch as Crabber grows from being I've recently read a boy still suffering from the death couple of his elder brother when we first met him through to a time when henovellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's old enough Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to go on a hunting trip on the mainland with a local family. He tells his own stories, as truthfully as he can and see what she could do with the sort of insight which children have before life injects its cynicisman even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny Thomas1986586898|title=All Shall be WellGoing To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=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 wife. In ''The Infernal RepublicA Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is a collection against him. My favourite was ''The Story of short stories containing a mixture of general fictionH'', horror and fantasy published by Signal8Press, an imprint the story of author Marshall Moore's own publishing company Typhoon Media LtdFoinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. Now normally I wouldn't pay much attention After changing hands on various occasions he came to who publishes the books I read, but yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered 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 formthe Grand National and considered a no-hoper. The whole collection is so badly crying out for In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a good editor that it actually ended pile-up making me angry in placesoccurred at the 23rd fence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881516404< Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc Nash9386897296|title=52FFHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=52FF A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a collection of short stories 'goody two shoes' in the flash fiction formatHell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. If you Daniel is framed for a crime he didn're new t commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to flash fictionreturn to live with Marsha. Then, of course, you should know there are various definitions all the other children who are not only targeted but here, Marc Nash chooses a format - worst of under 1all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children,000 wordstheir self-esteem is very fragile. This gives him some leeway and so the pieces are in a wide variety of styles is no small- some experimental scale operation, either - but all of them exploring the devil has set up a single central metaphor and all training complex on earth, complete with a darkness about them which is sometimes explicit and sometimes only emerges after you've had time an elevator to think and digestHell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IHMZR6</amazonuk>
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