[[Category:Short Stories|*]]
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{{newreview
|author=Dorothy Parker
|title=The Sexes
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=From the young woman who examined her handkerchief in minute detail, to the soldier's leave which didn't live up to expectation, through the thoughts of the early hours of the morning to the actress who proved a disappointment to her fan and on to the glorious culmination of the child who should never have been called Lolita we have five wonderful short stories. They're in a book that's no bigger than most short stories but buy it and it could well be the best buy that you make this year.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014119619X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=In his introduction, Stross explains that one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are the ideal format in which to focus on a particular concept of the future and play around with it. It doesn't matter so much if the idea doesn't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in it the way they would in a novel. ''Wireless'' then, is something of an experiment. Stross employs many different styles, tackles many different subjects and is very skilful at creating mood. His stories are a strange blend of the technical and the archaic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Oxfam
|title=Ox-Tales: Air
|rating=3.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Four books of short stories each taking (rather loosely on occasions) as a theme one of the elements: [[Ox-Tales: Earth by Oxfam|Earth]], [[Ox-Tales: Fire by Oxfam|Fire]], [[Ox-Tales: Water by Oxfam|Water]], and this book ''Air'', sold in aid of Oxfam but not about Oxfam's work. The writers, many household names, have given their work for free and at least 50p from the sale of each new book goes to Oxfam. That's not entirely the point though, is it? You want to know if the book is worth buying.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682614</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Oxfam
|title=Ox-Tales: Earth
|rating=3.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Published in aid of Oxfam work, Ox-Tales comprise of four books featuring original stories donated to the project by a variety of writers.
The framework for the books is provided by the four elements of the classical philosophy. Each collection starts with Vikram Seth's elemental poem and ends with a short article highlighting Oxfam's work in a key area ([[Ox-Tales: Fire by Oxfam|fire]] – conflict and war, [[Ox-Tales: Water by Oxfam|water]] – sanitation and clean water, earth – agriculture and air – climate change).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682584</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Irvine Welsh
|title=Reheated Cabbage
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Irvine Welsh's choice of title for this collection of short stories may serve to warn some unwary readers of its unpalatable nature. To the uninitiated, its stream of unrestrained swearing, drug taking, sex and casual violence could come as a shock. His fans though, will no doubt lap it up.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224080555</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Oxfam
|title=Ox-Tales: Fire
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Published in aid of Oxfam work, Ox-Tales comprise of four books featuring original stories donated to the project by a variety of writers.
The framework for the books is provided by the four elements of the classical philosophy. Each collection starts with Vikram Seth's elemental poem and ends with a short article highlighting Oxfam's work in a key area (fire – conflict and war, water – sanitation and clean water, earth – agriculture and air – climate change).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mick Jackson
|title=Bears of England
|rating=3.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=As you know, England has had a chequered history when it comes to her bears. From the days when we only knew them as horrors making bumping noises - among many others - in the night, we have learnt more, and used them more. Therefore we have this short little book, detailing some of the more remarkable instances of Anglo-bear relations, from the days of bear-baiting, to them being shot at when they escaped the circus, to when they were employed in subaquatic labour in the days before SCUBA gear...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571242405</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul R Spiring (Editor)
|title=Aside Arthur Conan Doyle: Twenty Original Tales By Bertram Fletcher Robinson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=The shortlived Bertram Fletcher Robinson is sadly little more than a footnote in British literature. His fame rests largely on having contributed to, and helped to inspire, a couple of Sherlock Holmes stories – and, if you believe the conspiracy theorists, having been bumped off by Conan Doyle for threatening to claim authorship of one of them and denounce Doyle as a fraud. (Don't go there).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312527</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle
|title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, an introduction. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby the best in genre fiction, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpected, is collected and dressed up for us in graphic novel form. This seventeenth edition, a belated best-of sci-fi volume, is their first foray into full colour, and is headlined by a version of The War of the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from a one-page strip to thirty-page stories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor)
|title=Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=So, if I were to mention someone who was born 200 years ago this season, and who changed the world with their writing, who would you think of first? Charles Darwin, probably. But those of a slightly different bent might just have mentioned someone else - someone at the forefront of all things arcane, horrific and thrilling when it comes to fiction. Someone who lost his birth and foster mother both to tuberculosis before he was ever twenty. Someone who had most unusual circumstances surrounding his death, to best Agatha Christie vanishing for a while, and most of the detectives in the fiction he helped inspire. Someone called Edgar Allan Poe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955285682</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary-Ann Constantine
|title=The Breathing
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Mary-Ann Constantine's book is a bit like a piece of embroidery: painstakingly slow, sewn with different threads, but the result is a beautiful picture by an accomplished hand. It is a book of short stories, very different and quite ambiguous, describing the lives of people - and an elephant - of a certain location (or a few) in Wales.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954088182</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
|title=Demo: v. 1
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=It's not every young disaffected teenager that will respond to the withdrawal of her medication so explosively. It's not every young disaffected teenager that runs through empty landscapes because she is too scared to speak to anyone – for quite the reasons we see here. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in the fashion the third story gives us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576921X</amazonuk>
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