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[[Category:Short Stories|*]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Aimee BenderBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|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=The Color MasterSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch
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|summary=Another parade of fascinating''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, unusual personalities and oddor challenged?''events from the author of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|Willful''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''Creatures]]''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short. This time out [['' Question:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]introduces us how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to people like Hans draw out themes from all the fake Naziflash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, young William to whomall people look the same and Janet who decides to spice up herlove-life with detrimental resultsauthor Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. Among other things we alsowitness That's about a less-than-altruistic anti-war demonstration and an oddoccurrence single page in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeusyour average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Complete Short Stories: Volume OneRachel Harrison|authortitle=Roald DahlBad Dolls|rating=4.5
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|summary=Roald Dahl’s name on a book has for me always meant It's been some time since I was in for a fun and imaginative 've readany horror. His children’s I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books are from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the pinnacle point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of children’s literature the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and combine fantastic ideas with wordplay I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and some I found most of that feeling came from the most amusing characters fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations. The stories for such as a breakup, trying a younger audience always managed new dieting app, going to thrill a hen party and entertain both adult and child and reading them aloud is a joy. In short I believe Roald Dahl was a true master of storytelling. I have however only actually read one of his adult books before reading this collection of short storiescoping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405910100</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX|title=The Dinner Club and Other Stories2|author=Rob KeeleyRichard F Walker
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|summary=This brilliant and varied collection is Richard F Walker's second volume of short stories is the product of a current academic interest . There are thirteen in cross-cultural translation. Francisco Guillen Serés is a Catalan professor of Art History all and I took something from Aragon. A Russophile, he has travelled widely to collect stories from those writing during the past hundred years each of Russian historythem. These have been translated into Catalan and then into English. These unusual and delightful stories, some twenty There isn't a single one of them written by five writers read fluently and engagingly. They form an informative tapestry of Soviet and post-Soviet life, moving back in time with that doesn't deserve to be among the older, earlier writers like Bergchenko, who died in the siege of Stalingrad, at others or brings down the endoverall quality. Ranging over mythic and symbolic tales It can be tricky to realistic portrayals of personal relationships; love trysts in St Petersburgreview short stories without giving too much away, ferocious bears in the deep heart of the Taiga so I'll just pick two to the perils of becoming lost in continuous orbit in space. All aspects are impressively recountedtalk about and I think they give a general flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705158X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Best British Short Stories 201322 Ideas About The Future|author=Nicholas Royle Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (editorEditors)
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|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=Expect to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013'', sourced from a number of short story magazines; 'Granta', 'Shadows and Tall Trees', 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' are just some of the publications in which these pieces were to Our future will be seen firstmore complex than we expected. If asked to identify a red thread between the components Instead of Nicholas Royle’s anthologyflying cars, I would say that in each short story, everything is left we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to simmer under the surfacetrack grandma. There is a frustration brought about by the lack of clarity in every short story, which to me is a reflection of just how unclear the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=Behind the FacadeStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Dennis FriedmanRichard F Walker
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|summary=We have all, at one ''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 stickler for correct grammar goes back in time or another, wished that we had the ability to read minds. Imagine how interesting it would be to peer beyond correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the external appearance and ideal person to understand have around in a lawless village; the various thought processes lurking beneath new boy on the surface. Psychiatrist Dennis Friedman gives the reader the opportunity to do just that pub football team is very useful with his collection of short stories feet, and awfully familiar…'Beyond the Facade'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720615070</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess1737030942|title=Krispy WhispersBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick
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|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=''A woman stops Sometimes, you in the road deserve a treat and gazes fearfully into the pram. "Your babies are not human," she says. Then she runs off.mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Really, really, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story in 'Bag O'Krispy WhispersGoodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, a series of flash fictions when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a girl dreaming rollicking tale of riches, a lonely woman who finds a pet and gets what happens when five young men find a boyfriend too closely together base for mere coincidencetheir partying. And Right now, I didn't want a priest who actually meets Godfull-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories. And a very worrisome monster Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Concentrate hard Well. Because you'll need to keep up...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Moore1529418100|title=The Pre-War House Bruno's Challenge and other short storiesOther Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5
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|summary=Alison MooreI's ''Pre-War House'' is m not usually a collection fan of 24 short stories, only three of which are original - I find it all too easy to this collection, but most were first published in put the last couple of years book down between stories and, unless you are a an avid reader of ''The New Writer'' they will probably all be new forget to you. Moore's themes tend to concentrate on fairly dark characters, usually with pick it up again - but I am a hidden secret, and more often than not dealing with the past and frequently some kind fan of personal loss or anguish. If you enjoyed MooreMartin Walker's Booker Prize shortlisted [[The Lighthouse by Alison MooreMartin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|The LighthouseBruno Courreges Mysteries]], you will find plenty to enjoy here as most of so the stories have a similar hauntingly sad feel temptation to them. With one possible exception, a very short piece called read ''Bruno's Challenge''The Yacht Manwas hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn' which did nothing for met even try. For those new to the series, the stories are beautifully judged there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and equally satisfying, often saving a final hit or a surprise until the end of the piecesbackground to why Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773509</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert WalserB08NF79QXT|title=The Walk and other storiesCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Literary Women's Fiction|summary=The publication of this collection of around forty short stories affords Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the English speaking public a unique opportunity; that of reading WalserCherry Blossom Boutique, possibly for just six months when she's nominated for - and wins - the leading modernist writer of Swiss German in Retail Best Newcomer Award. She's delighted and the last century. He has received high praise in two people she'A Place in s brought with her to the Countryevent couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, W G Sebaldis an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's recently published posthumous collection thirty-four and he is well-Liberty's best friend: they've known as being a significant influence on Franz Kafka. His work here dates from 1907 to 1929 each other since university and along with his poetry won him recognition with BerlinLiberty adores Jessica's avant gardehusband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. He combines lyrical delicacy with detailed observation; reflective melancholy with criticism of brash commercialism. The fine writing Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in this volume strives to achieve a hard won integrity together with an experimental capacity for reflectionher life. It challenges the reader and provokes him to new insights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ted OlingerB08KKQ85FN|title=The Woodpecker MenaceBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
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|summary=The Key Peninsula is ''If a small spur of land on woman approaching the Puget Sound menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in Washington statelipstick, shaped - you guessed it - like an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a key. Its resident are disparate 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 include both incomers and those who'd see themselves as pioneer settlerspaying his own gas bills. But they're joined in a communal sense of island living. It'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 in so many ways. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0984840036</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roberto Saviano, Carlo Lucarelli, Valeria Parrella, Piero Colaprico, Wu Ming, Simona VinciB08CHJLNBS|title=OutsidersCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She'Outsiderss Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage 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, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a collection of six pieces of writing [[Personal by Italian authors. Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The pieces have been collated from a supplement to an Italian daily newspaper and six have been chosen around the theme of outsiders for translation into EnglishGuardian''. Thus They're obviously not at all compatible, the pieces themselves were so why can Charles not written around get this specific theme but have rather had this theme imposed on them in this collectionwoman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. Since the outsider is often used in various forms And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by writers Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to observe the status quohim? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, this is not a big leap of imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052446</amazonuk>isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aimee BenderMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Willful CreaturesCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
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|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary= In this collection weCurses. They're shown there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the reaction verge of ten men with terminal illness prognosesmarrying, and older people too. It seems in a large man purchasing a very unusual pet and way there's no escaping it. Which is why the case theme of this book of short stories is such a hard-done-by boyfriend. There are also delights like the shop standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that sells words crafted into what they readdemonised place, a boy with keys instead of fingers and the beautifully touching tale of the pumpkin-headed mother who gives birth to an iron-headed babythat other bewitched person. No, this isnWe't your average collection of predictable short stories; these are [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee Bender]] short storiesd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099558858</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen RussellStibbe_Xmas|title=Vampires in the Lemon Grove|rating=5|genre=Short StoriesAn Almost Perfect Christmas|summary=I know you shouldn't judge a book by the cover, but when the cover has a title like ''Vampires in the Lemon Grove'', I can't help but be a little intrigued, especially when the author has a recent history like Karen Russell's. This history includes a Guardian award nomination for a previous collection with another great title; ''St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves'' and a Pulitzer Prize shortlisting for her novel, [[Swamplandia! by Karen Russell|Swamplandia!]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187883</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Mann (Editor)|title=Encounters of Sherlock HolmesNina Stibbe
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Humour|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon Christmas – the time of English literature; perhaps as popular today as he traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was back in leaving it sat on the late 1800sdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, maybe even more so with and if that failed the advent of TV hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and film adaptations of his adventuresget too friendly with it to want to eat it. IndeedChristmas, though, such is the lasting appeal of course also a time of great boons. 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 character thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that since your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the death makers of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of works published, picking up where the original stories left off. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Prajwal Parajuly0954899520|title=The Gurkha's DaughterA Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Parajuly Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the natural world and the son simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1911115847|title=Nights of the Creaking Bed|author=Toni Kan|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kan. The series of stories tell of the lives and lusts of an Indian father assortment of characters living in and Nepalese mother hailing from Gangtok around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in the Indian Himalayasthis collection, but spending most is imbued with its very own heart of his time somewhere between New York darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and Oxfordpeople are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. His insight is therefore something we should probably trustKan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872933</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Rich1529014484|title=The Last Girlfriend on EarthExhalation |author=Ted Chiang
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|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=There is more opportunity than ever these days to downsize your library. You can take all those lumpen classics to Over the charity shop now that they can be downloaded for free onto an epast twenty-reader. And with eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these couple of hundred pages magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you can also divest yourself of are a heck of a lot of science fiction about love, for this can easily replace so much you've read at greater length, with less imagination and with much less humour elsewhere. That hyperbole is only partly inspired by the style of the contents, for fan it really is likely that good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668921X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lee Child (Editor)|title=Vengeance|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=I like short story collections. They're useful reading material when you're a mum of young children as you can usually manage to squeeze in a six page story at nap time, but you'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 collection have already come across some of crime stories is brought together under the title of ''Vengeance'' so, as work by Ted Chiang. If youhaven'd imagine, they are all t then take this opportunity to do with revenge and people getting or trying to get their own backso now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857899015</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Levy1794467440|title=Black VodkaWatchwords |author=Philip Neal
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|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
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|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: FictionsThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating=54
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|summary=It's said that On my travels around the art of short-story writing is totally different from that of novels as the writer only has ten or so pages world, I have a tendency to accomplish what others do end up in two to three hundred. Imagine, thereforeany bookshop that is selling English-language books, 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 while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales 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>}} {{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'next person, what I' m really looking for is his story about what it's like living with the man he generously refers to as ''The Boss'local', about life in general and the ways of – the world. Think of him as the canine equivalent of the parliamentary sketch writercookbook maybe, there to highlight the idiosyncrasies of human life and bring a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriously. Before you wonder how this is possible - how a dog can write a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animals. After all, dogs and their humans might go to what are laughingly called 'dog training classes'maps definitely, but it's above all: the humans who are trained, not the dogs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph O'Connor|title=Where Have You Been?|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Irish novelist Joseph O'Connor has had quite a 2012folk tales. Earlier in the year he joined the ranks of such authors as Edna O'Brien, [[:Category:Roddy Doyle|Roddy Doyle]] and Seamus Heaney when he became a recipient of the PEN award for his outstanding contribution If I ever get to Irish literature. What could possibly top that for a sense of achievement? Well thisBurma, his first book of short stories in 20 years, must come pretty close I won't need to at least equalling ithunt, amply illustrating the reasons for the panel's decisionI can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556899</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita DesaiB077969HN8|title=The Artist of DisappearanceAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon
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|genre=Literary FictionShort Stories|summary=Anita DesaiLaura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'The Artist ' as ''black comedy with a twist of Disappearancesurrealism''. I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I' is m not normally a collection fan of three novellas with several satisfying unifying features. All are set in modern day Indiaeither, all involve some looking back in time and all three involve some consideration of but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the creative art publisher says is correct - who and I really enjoyed it . The comedy is for, what happens to it once it leaves the artistnot ''s control and who too'owns' it. Most of all, each one black and the surrealism is beautifully written, with strong characters gentle and evocative descriptions perhaps best described as a twist or flick of personal lossreality when you were least expecting it. In terms of length each is relatively short - around 50 pages long - but after each one you feel that you've been engrossed Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in the story just as much as if you had read a novel of more conventional lengthnicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553953</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roddy Doyle9386897504|title=BullfightingTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=54
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|summary=I've often wondered what goes through an author's mind the next time they sit down always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write after winning a major literary prizeshort story which holds the reader and keeps them coming back for more. Does it There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put undue pressure on an author, thinking that they will have to write something equally as good or better next time around? Some writers can wilt under the pressure down and future offerings are derided by critics as 'not as good as (insert title here)forget after you've read a couple of pieces. But some thrive under the weight I've recently read a couple of expectation novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and continue to write wonderful stories. 1993 Booker Prize winner [[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Hell's Unveiling by Roddy DoyleLaura Solomon|Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaHell's Unveiling]] falls firmly into this latter categoryand enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955562X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry Wells1986586898|title=Kicking the Hornets' NestGoing To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
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|summary=WWII books about In the RAF opening story, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and the Navy are quite commonhis wife. Books about Special Operations Executive and similar organisations proliferate. Stories about In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the army are fewer and try as I might I really couldn't think problem of one which was other than incidentally about tank crew, so whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the opportunity came I ground is against him. My favourite was ''hadThe Story of H'' to read 'Kicking , the Hornets' Nest' particularly story of Foinavon. H is depicted as it's written by an author a kind horse who crewed a Sherman tank in Operation Overlord, back in June 1944only wanted to please people. I had just a couple After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of nagging doubtsJohn Kempton. It's H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a book no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of short storiesthe race, a pile-up occurred at the 23rd fence. Would I find it easy to pick up - Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and out down again? The big worry was whether or not this was going galloped to be a macho action storythe line, which wouldn't really be my cup winning the race at odds of tea at all100/1.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780881568</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Simpson9386897296|title=A Bunch of FivesHell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=3.5
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|summary=A little while ago I will come straight out with it at really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the top sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of this review 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 state that I am particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a big fan of Helen Simpson'goody two shoes' in Hell). So this bookAlthough a strong person, which she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a selection crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of five stories from each course, there are all the other children who are not only targeted but - worst of her five collectionsall - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is right up my streetvery fragile. All I’ve got to do now This is convince you that you need no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to read it too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561573</amazonuk>Hell.
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