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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin 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=Brief Loves That Live ForeverSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Andrei MakineMark C Wallfisch
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|summary=Our unnamed narrator ''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is inspired more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: 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 think back through his life on draw out themes from all the girls and women he has been flash fictions in love with, partly because a book of a time spent with an associate – a time marked them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a further woman – whom he deemed had never been lovedthree hundred word limit. The associate, you see, had spent half his adult life in Soviet camps for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan That's about a single page in the 1960s' Soviet Unionyour average paperback. This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points during and since the second half of communist rule – and finally explains the import of that unremarkable encounter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth HaynesRachel Harrison|title=Promises to Keep: A Short StoryBad Dolls
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|summary=Jo is haunted by It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the death of books from a teenage asylum seeker whilst in police custody boy I fancied at school and she only hangs on scaring myself half silly with them to her fragile sanity by running. Whilst she's out in the woods (where she'd been warned point that she I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don'reallyt worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn' shouldnt have those jump scares, and I didn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough and she knew that she had have to do everything in her power to keep him safe. read it during daylight hours only! There were complications. Her partner was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers - But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from the boy fact that these are stories about women, living rough normal lives, and that at least in part, the woods was the younger brother of the dead teenager. Sam wanted to get her relationship with Jo back onto an even keelhorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, but one night she returned from work going to find a stranger in her househen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Rental Heart and other FairytalesB0CCCVRSGX|authortitle=Kirsty Logan|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=To start with, are these stories strictly fairytales? On the evidence of this collection, it is at times a distinction that seems open to debate, a category that lies waiting for definition. But at the same time, such is the genre-switching (and at times gender-switching), that it is a subtitle that serves better than most. The title story examines a life's romantic history via a twist on the idea that we give our heart away to every lover – what do we have when they are gone and a new one takes their place? Elsewhere, a landed lady takes advantage of her servant, and another cultured madam hires a clockwork companion to shrug off the suitors, with obvious, narratively logical results. A medical worker and her pregnant partner share a caravan together, all the while knowing a different circumstance might be closer than first thought. We have the beginnings of love lives, the end of hatred, and the end of the world in these pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773754</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes2|author=George Mann (Editor)Richard F Walker
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|summary=Hot on the heels This is Richard F Walker's second volume of [[Encounters of Sherlock Holmes by George Mann (Editor)|Encounters of Sherlock Holmes]] comes another collection of brand-new tales written by some short stories. There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of them. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve to be among the brightest creative minds from others or brings down the genres of science fiction and crimeoverall quality. In this anthologyIt can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, Holmes and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios and invited so I'll just pick two to unravel secrets talk about and unmask villains as only they know how. During their adventures I think they come face to face with give a mountain monster, take a murderous boat trip, meet Moriarty’s siblings and even indulge in a little space travelgeneral flavour. The game is afoot!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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{{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersFrontpage|ratingisbn=5B09XZMCDVF|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature of the programme. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of covers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Of Lions and UnicornsStories: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master Storyteller13 tantalising tales|author=Michael MorpurgoRichard F Walker
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|summary=I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The most fun when facing a new author, especially a big name one, A news vendor is to come through crying out the underground, tackling headlines in the smaller works, middle of the quirkier output, the less representative sections of her or night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his oeuvre. And imagination; a stickler for those who correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have or haven't read ''The Jane Austen Book Club'', there is plenty of potential for that with around in a lawless village; the rest of [[The Case of new boy on the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler|Karen Joy Fowler]], for her output includes almost as many selections of short stories as it does pub football team is very successful novelsuseful with his feet, and whatawfully familiar…'s more they carry the science fictional banner. A long time ago there was a teenage me very happy to be reading ''Lord of the Flies'' and writing an essay about how sci-fi it was, and I do relish the mainstream author entering a genre, or the inverse of that. But boy, I normally come away a lot happier than I did here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1604868252</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=The Time TravellerBag O's AlmanacGoodies|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerJolly Walker Bittick
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|genre=Anthologies|summary=From H.G Wells to Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Doctor WhoGoodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], there is something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a way unique to the genrebase for their partying. Perhaps it is due Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to the fact that when dealing with the subject this anthology of time travel, literally ''anything is possible'verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diana Wells1529418100|title=Odes Bruno's Challenge and Prose for Older WomenOther Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=I am, 'm not usually a fan of course, not an older woman and nether is Diana Wells. We were born in short stories - I find it all too easy to put the same year book down between stories and we are what is best described as forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker'upper middle ageds [[Martin Walker', but - perhaps s Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in anticipation of what is Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to come - Diana has collected together her writings on the subject and I read through them in two sittings (the break ''Bruno's Challenge'' was enforced) hard to resist and I laughed and cried'm rather glad that I didn't even try. For those new to the series, but the wry smile of recognition never left my face from beginning there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to end. There are know about eighty five short stories who's who and odes - with none more than a few pages long - written, we are told, from observation, experience or imagination and I can only conclude that Wells has led a very rich lifethe background to why Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780356838</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty-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. She's delighted and the two people she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from. Jessica's thirty-four and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a man in her life.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=Sad MonstersBut Never For Lunch|author=Frank LesserSandra Aragona
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|summary=Alice Munro has made an art form of short story writing. ''Dear Life'' is If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a collection of truly beautiful short stories, perfectly crafted Rottweiler in a way that leaves no wanting feelinglipstick, as is often an issue with short stories. Each Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, more to the 14 stories contained within point, about to discover the collection is just real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that; a story , do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in its own right[[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 Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... There is no getting caught up They have left The Career and lost settled in style Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and literary flaretheir dog, but a cool proseBeagle, a calmness has no intention of tone slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and good strong storiesdeaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578638</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=The Complete Short Stories: Volume TwoCapturing Emilia|author=Roald DahlBrooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=Having only recently read the first volume of this collection of all of Roald Dahl’s short stories I couldn’t help but think of the phrase He''too much of s Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a good thingpartner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she' although I have never really agreed with the phrase (I could happily gorge s moved on chocolate or whisky for days without the slightest regret) I am still pleased from new age books like that this book provides yet , which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more evidence of the inaccuracy of the expression. With stories as diverse as a butler getting revenge on his employer and a baby being brought up on royal jelly [[Personal by a fanatical bee loverLee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, these are tales of horrorbut, humourabove all, adventurehe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, love and so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all out weirdness: it's obvious to his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910119</amazonuk> And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|authortitle=Cecily Gayford (editor)Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
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|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=This collection Curses. They're there throughout tales of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling talesfaery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. There are physical ghostsChildren can be cursed, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensedas can princesses on the verge of marrying, and even the odd entity that just older people too. It seems ghostly, even though in a way there's no escaping it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story Which is preceded with some information on why the author. The theme of this book of short stories are from are from several different periods is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in Indiathat other bewitched person. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagasWe'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee BenderStibbe_Xmas|title=The Color MasterAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Another parade of fascinating, unusual personalities and oddevents from Christmas – the author time of [[Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender|WillfulCreatures]]traditional trauma. This You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time out [[:Category:Aimee Bender|Aimee]]introduces us it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to people like Hans defrost overnight, and if that failed the fake Nazi, young William to whomhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all people look the same and Janet who decides having to spice up herlovemake sure it's suitably free-life range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with detrimental resultsit to want to eat it. Among other things we Christmas, though, is of course alsowitness a lesstime 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 thank-thanyou letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-altruistic anti-war demonstration hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and an oddoccurrence in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>sell them any other time of the year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=The Complete Short Stories: Volume OneA Winter Book|author=Roald DahlTove Jansson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Roald Dahl’s name Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on a book has for me always meant I was the Moomin books, written in for a fun and imaginative read. His children’s books are the pinnacle of children’s literature 1940s and combine fantastic ideas with wordplay and some later becoming television characters of the most amusing characters simplicity, naivety and situationssheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. The 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 younger audience always managed to thrill and entertain both adult feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child and reading them aloud is a joy. In short I believe Roald Dahl was a true master -like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of storytellinghow the world might be. I have however only actually read one of his adult books before reading this collection of short stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1911115847|title=The Dinner Club and Other StoriesNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Rob KeeleyToni Kan
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=''Being on home dinners gives Aidan Nights of the chance to make some money...Creaking Bed''<br>''A bridesmaid and is a page chase a runaway wedding cakecollection of short stories by Toni Kan...''<br>''Mia The series of stories tell of the lives and her Dad turn detective...'' These are just a few lusts of an assortment of the premises you can try out for size characters living in Rob Keeley's third book of short stories for middle grade readersand around Lagos, Nigeria. He's really having some fun Nigeria, in this collection, is imbued with this formatits very own heart of darkness. I approve. We need Danger stalks the shadows and people are killed for nothing more short story collections for this age groupthan a wrong look. They're entertaining Kan writes with a vitality and they appeal particularly passion that allows these cynical stories to reluctant readers. Short stories like this can act as achieve a springboard to full-length novelsglimmer of hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783060603</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st DetectiveExhalation |author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)Ted Chiang|rating=3.5|genre=AnthologiesScience Fiction|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as Over the first fictional detective and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths to comepast twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use likely that you have already come across some of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling caseswork by Ted Chiang. The characters literary debut was in the short story If you haven''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition t then take this opportunity to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by himdo so now. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve a murder without even leaving her homeTrust me; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity of all keeps the character fresh from story to storyyour imagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1794467440|title=Russian StoriesWatchwords |author=Francesc SeresPhilip Neal|rating=54
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|summary=This brilliant and varied satisfying collection of short stories is the product of has a current academic interest in cross-cultural translation. Francisco Guillen Serés is a Catalan professor of Art History from Aragon. A Russophile, he has travelled widely to collect stories from those writing during the past hundred years of Russian history. These have been translated into Catalan and then into English. These unusual and delightful stories, some twenty 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 the older, earlier writers like Bergchenko, who died in the siege of Stalingrad, provenance at least as beguiling as the end. Ranging over mythic and symbolic tales to realistic portrayals of personal relationships; love trysts in St Petersburg, ferocious bears in the deep heart provenance of the Taiga to the perils of becoming lost in continuous orbit in space. All aspects are impressively recountedantique watches that inspired it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705158X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529006031|title=This CloseReturn to Wonderland|author=Jessica Francis KaneVarious Authors|rating=4.5
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|summary='This Close' is In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a sensitively written collection of short stories exploring few years ago, when the fragile nature first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of the bonds connecting friendsage]], neighbours and familyI found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. As The wacky-for-the title suggests, most -sake-of the stories contain pivotal moments where a missed opportunity-it did not gel, fleeting and I don't remember loving it more as it may be, can propel a person along a path culminating in regret or losschild. Each story is poignantly written and perceptively observed But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. As I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a readertangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. I was drawn in 've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and became so emotionally involved it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the characters whole Twilight saga (although that it remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was often impossible every reason to close the book until I knew how each story ended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1555976360</amazonuk>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|isbn=1846974658|title=Behind the FacadeThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Dennis FriedmanJan-Philipp Sendker
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|summary=We On my travels around the world, I have alla tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, at one time or anotherand while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, wished that we had what I'm really looking for is the ability to read minds. Imagine how interesting it would be to peer beyond 'local' – the external appearance and to understand cookbook maybe, the various thought processes lurking beneath maps definitely, but above all: the surfacefolk tales. Psychiatrist Dennis Friedman gives the reader the opportunity If I ever get to do just that with his collection of short stories Burma, I won'Beyond the Facade'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720615070</amazonuk>t need to hunt, I can read before I go.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margo LanaganB077969HN8|title=YellowcakeAlternative Medicine|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=We should always make time for Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short storiesin ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after''YellowcakeI'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of either, a traveller boy uses three items but I've come to reunite an old man with his memoriestwo conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. A boy with The comedy is not ''too'' black and the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up in their harbourtwist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. Rapunzel gets a makeover Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in which things turn out differently. We find out how the Ferryman of the Dead became the Ferrywoman. And morenicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess9386897504|title=Krispy WhispersTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I''A woman stops you in ve always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which holds the road reader and gazes fearfully into the pramkeeps them coming back for more. "Your babies There are far too many collections of short stories which are not human," she says. Then she runs off.'' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Really, really, really? Can all too easy to put down and forget after you be sure? So begins the first story in ''Krispy Whispers'', ve read a series couple of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgesspieces. You also get I've recently read a girl dreaming couple of riches, a lonely woman who finds a pet novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] 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[[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell'll need s Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to keep upsee what she could do with an even shorter form...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison Moore1986586898|title=Going To The Pre-War House and other short storiesLast: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Alison MooreIn 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 's 'A Grey Day'Pre-War House'' is a collection an owner struggles with the problem of 24 short stories, only three of which are original whether or not to this collection, but most were first published run his horse in the last couple of years and, unless you are a an avid reader of Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The New WriterStory of H'' they will probably all be new , the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to youplease people. Moore's themes tend After changing hands on various occasions he came to concentrate on fairly dark charactersthe yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, usually with a hidden secretpile-up occurred at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and more often than not dealing with galloped to the line, winning the past and frequently some kind race at odds of personal loss or anguish100/1. If you enjoyed Moore}}{{Frontpage|isbn=9386897296|title=Hell's Booker Prize shortlisted Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=A little while ago I really enjoyed [[The Lighthouse Marsha's Deal by Alison MooreLaura Solomon|The LighthouseMarsha's Deal]]and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, you will find plenty ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler to enjoy here as most of say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the stories have a similar hauntingly sad feel devil is not one to themtake defeat lying down. With one possible exception, He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a very short piece called 'goody two shoes'The Yacht Manin Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn' which did nothing for met commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course, there are all the stories other children who are beautifully judged not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and equally satisfyingas with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, often saving either - the devil has set up a final hit or a surprise until the end of the piecestraining complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773509</amazonuk>
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