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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cixin LiuGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title= Wandering EarthThe Accidentals|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionShort Stories|summary= If anyone thought that This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againnature and human relationships. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and encourager of the short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shortsprecisely, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached her stories structured by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways wisdom that appears to much of the rest of the planet…and add want to that an author who is not only a best-seller in his home country but has teach us something about the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!world.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>1804271470

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Fleur Jaeggy and Gini Alhadeff (translator)Mariana Enriquez|title= I Am The Brother Of XXA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating= 45|genre= Short Stories|summary=''I Am The Brother of XX'' Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is a collection disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggydisused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, who expertly wields malevolence an overcrowded homeless shelter and spite throughout, from the evil done between husband and wife in ''The Aviary'', a nasty tale of Oedipal menace and vicious, although admittedly, artful cruelty, to senseless annihilation and immolation in ''The Heir''crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. Jaeggy also appears to have a particular fascination with religion, from the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in ''The Visitor'' to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many circumstances of her stories. Family is also a recurrent theme; whether focused on characters are so plausible that the distance between siblings in the titular story, told from the point of view of a brother filled with longing and loneliness trying to create supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a bond with his distant older sister, or the primal need to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide''similarly tangible texture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>1803511230

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malcolm DevlinFyodor Dostoyevsky|title= You Will Grow Into ThemWhite Nights|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary=''You Will Grow Into Them'' As always in Dostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. One is never left wondering what a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the nature of transition character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and change. The often grisly, macabre and ghoulish nature of the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictivetemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907389431</amazonuk>0241619785

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tove JanssonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Letters From KlaraAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Literary Science Fiction|summary= Famed in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the UK for her creation shape of the Moomin family, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning things to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writingscome. For that '' I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers 've heard it said that 'Sort of bookstechnology'is what happens after you' and Thomas Tealre eighteen. Well, who has I must confess that there have been responsible for most 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 translationsfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Receiving this oneSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of could research the possibilities and the series, probabilities and secondly thereend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'll come a time sooner rather than later when therem reading someone who knows what they'll be no more to be hadre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. The former will be rectified, the latter is I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a sad thoughtway I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee ChildB0CDZRGT1M|title= No Middle NameSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Short Stories|summary= There is ''Got a theoryminute to be amused, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribeentertained, which says that the or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This None is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genresmore than 300 words. Tosh! I You can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply havenread one in a flash.''''t been paying attentionSome are funny. Some are poignant. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsAll are short. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name''  Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a collection flavour of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the name flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn'Jack Reacher't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Fanfare of TalesRachel Harrison|authortitle=Patrick C ReidyBad Dolls

|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror. I love short storieshad a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, so borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that Icouldn'm always happy when a new collection arrives t shut my bedroom curtains at night for review. ''A Fanfare fear of Talesthe vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn' by Patrick C Reidy promises me t like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn'a compilation t have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of short that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that highlight at least in part, the adventures of diverse characters horrors arises from very normal situations such as each encounters unforeseen challenges''. I like this premisea breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief. So how does the book shape up? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524665983</amazonuk>1803363932

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroB0CCCVRSGX|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseStories 2|author=Richard F Walker|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic Novels Short Stories|summary=Out This is Richard F Walker's second volume of ninety-five diverse comic strip short stories, the publication . There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of this book leaves just the last three yet them. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with among the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and of course with her Willie, this is others or brings down the last-but-one chance for you overall quality. It can be tricky to do review short stories without giving too much away, soI'll just pick two to talk about and I think they give a general flavour. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1739593901|title= Miraculous Mysteries 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (British Library Crime ClassicsEditors)|rating= 5|genre= CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Consider the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and runs to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where the noise is emanating. When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers a dead man in the hallway automated elderly care with a knife in his throat. He goes geolocation surveillance bracelets to fetch help, but upon returning, finds that the street does not have a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished..track grandma.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael R Lane|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection I've got a couple of Short Stories|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=From confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories of young people caught up in a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, as I find it easy to read a believer in God having her faith shaken by the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating few stories and clever short stories here. From farm then forget to urban, from World War II return to the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events in book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there'UFOs and Gods science fiction: far too often it'' spotlight s the tender underbelly of technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human condition in all its glory beings who fascinate me: the technology and despair on these varied stages the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rick Bass|title= For a Little While|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=''For a Little While'' is a collection book of twenty-five two science fiction short stories from Rick Bass. As someone previously unacquainted with Bass' work this new collection was a wonderful introduction to his quirky, unusual style which focuses on stripped back, simple fables featuring often mundane situations, mysterious characters and magical experiences. The characters in each tale are beautifully crafted and the stories are dreamy? Well, loose narratives covering everything from love to death to choices made and chances takenI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273042</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/1 -->Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=A Collection of Short Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Gillian Fletcher-EdwardsRichard F Walker

|summary=Marged Evans allowed ''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a break-up wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a lover stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to affect everything in her life. Osian wanted correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to invest have around in a lawless village; the present but Marged loved new boy on the past. Since they drifted apartpub football team is very useful with his feet, Margedand awfully familiar…''s life  This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has been carefula lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable and strange, orderedeven miraculous, unadventurousthings can happen to ordinary people. But then Osian sends her a Christmas card and everything changesAnd that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. ''Marged Evans'' is the first Form and longest in tone varies so this collection little treasury of short stories from Gillian Fletcher-Edwards. Itfiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's almost a novella and its initially slow pace sets off quite the masterclass in how one event can throw everything into unexpected - but lovely - chaoscoming next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524662445</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence1737030942|title= The Book of English Folk TalesBag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating= 4

|summary= From ghosts to witchesSometimes, to giants you deserve a treat and fairies, mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'The Book of English Folk TalesGoodies'' is . I first encountered his writing about a fascinating collection of stories retold year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Out Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of print what happens when five young men find a base for over three decadestheir partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and is sure to capture the attention so have his characters. Well... most of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468313177</amazonuk>them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529418100|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen too. As we travel through the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting cases. In fact thereBruno's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas Challenge and Yule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOther Dordogne Tales|author=Mary Telford and Louise Verity|title=SinsMartin Walker

|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? WeI've seen them m not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all shown too easy to us, from school age put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to the movie read ''Bruno'Se7ens Challenge'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown hard to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably canresist and I'm rather glad that I didn't pin down when they were actually set in stone without helpeven try. Similarly, is there anything For those new in the world of fairy tale? We know the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (the woman, the husband), a clear set of rules to obey, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, the formulae involved. Wellseries, this volume demands we decide the answer there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to those questions as being positive ones, and if itknow about who's not always definitive in who and the writing here that there background to why Bruno is something new, rest assured there will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh.St Denis..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Cherry Blossom Boutique|author=Carys Bray 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 othersLiberty 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on LoveBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|rating=3.54

|summary=This Sceptre collection does not have as simple ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a remit as it might appear; these are no straightforward love stories. InsteadRottweiler in lipstick, they each take one aspect an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of love – often one carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the ancient Greek classifications – Priorities: Ambassadress and provide a whole new way 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 thinking about itFormer Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. After all Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, the heart holds a lot has no intention of metaphorical weightslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473649420</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen SimpsonB08CHJLNBS|title=CockfostersCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=This was He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a belated reunion for mepartner at Wickham Jones, having been introduced to the authorMayfair letting agents. She's snappy short story collections courtesy Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the very first one while at uniheritage library next door. MindEmilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, it was a much more gentle and placid reunion than the one that starts this book – Julie and Philippa have had a shop-bought curry togetherwhich leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, but have had to forsake something a cultural chat for a trip haring along the London Underground chasing after a pair of glasses one of them left behindlittle deeper. The piece Charles is definitely about the subject more of ageing – about time passed and what might be remaining ahead – a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but you soon discover , above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not only do at all the pieces here have titles that are unadorned place namescompatible, but they so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all concern that very theme: it's obvious to his friends. Can anyoneAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, let alone Helen Simpsonwhy does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, sustain such a vaguely morbid topic over a full collectionisn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470198X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BecklerMarie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title= The Road More TravelledCursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales of those seeking refuge|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesFantasy|summary= Curses. They''The Road More Travelled'' is an anthology re there throughout tales of short stories - faery and one poem - written in response other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to the refugee crisis do that. Children can be cursed, as it exploded across our TV screens and newspapers throughout 2015. To can princesses on the horror verge of the authorsmarrying, the language used by many was aggressive and dehumanising, describing this mass of desperate older people as too. It seems in a swarm or a hordeway there's no escaping it. The Which is why the theme of this book of short stories together form is such a response standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this otheringaccursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993147224</amazonuk>1789091500

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ransom RiggsStibbe_Xmas|title= Tales of the PeculiarAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensHumour|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control Christmas – the currents time of the seatraditional trauma. Cannibals who feast on You only have to think about the limbs of turkey for that – once upon a village of peculiars. These are just a few of time it was leaving it sat on the brilliant stories downstairs loo to be found in ''Tales of defrost overnight, and if that failed the Peculiarhair-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, all and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - course also a place familiar to many time of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrinegreat boons. It's Home cash in hand for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for Peculiar Children]]. The stories postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in this collection explore peculiar history long-hand as a child, and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative wayas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each sell them any other time of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=I'll Be Home For ChristmasA Winter Book|author=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersTove Jansson

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced ''ITove Jansson'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers s worldwide fame lasts on the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by Moomin books, written in the theme 1940s and later becoming television characters of home. What does home mean to you? Is it your house, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things to different peoplesimplicity, cannaivety and sheer 't it? The book opens with a powerful poem by Bookbag favouritegoodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, Benjamin Zephaniahsimple goodness. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales What is often forgotten outside of hardship 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 fear, some warming the cockles simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of your heart. But all of them are about ''home''how the world might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Schiff1911115847|title= The Nights of the Creaking Bed Moved|author=Toni Kan|rating= 54|genre= Short Stories Literary Fiction|summary= Rebecca Schiff's 'Nights of the Creaking Bed'' is a collection of short stories was a revelationby Toni Kan. It has everything I want from a collection: humour, (often The series of stories tell of the black variety), heartbreaking sadness, lives and moments lusts of shocking clarity. These stories feel like the revealing an assortment of the inner workings of a young American woman's psychecharacters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. In factNigeria, in the last short piecethis collection, entitled ''Write What You Know'', it feels that the narrator/author is telling us imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the experiences which have led to this collection. ''I only know about parent death shadows and sluttiness', she tells us. She goes on to talk about her knowledge of Jewish people who are assimilated, liberal killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and sexual guilt, and I think it is no exaggeration to say passion that allows these are the underlying themes cynical stories to practically all achieve a glimmer of the stories herehope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147363184X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Van Booy1529014484|title= Tales of Accidental GeniusExhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating= 5|genre= Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=A diverseOver the past twenty-eight years, haunting and humorous collection of Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction, Simon Van Booy offers awards so if you are a collection science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of stories highlighting how human genius can emerge through acts of compassionthe work by Ted Chiang. With characters ranging from an eccentric film director, an aging Cockney bodyguard, the teenage child of Nigerian immigrants, a divorced amateur magician and a Beijing street vendor, If you haven''Tales of Accidental Genius'' takes the reader on many, incredible journeys, and conveys more in a few pages than many authors would struggle t then take this opportunity to do in a whole novelso now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780749716</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amnesty International1794467440|title= Here I StandWatchwords |author=Philip Neal|rating= 54|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary= Every so often Amnesty International gets together This satisfying collection of short stories has a number provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of the antique watches that inspired it. Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he was fond of great authors and produces an anthology had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead of writing. This timemourning its loss, they've done he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it for younger readers with ''Here I Stand''. Twenty-five contributions explore where we are with human rights in todayAnd that's society: how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to the sacrifices many made to win them; Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a fake, but the sacrifices friendship that still need to be made to spread them; how, where grew between the buyer and why these rights are under attack the repairer of watches was not and how deep is the need to defend themseed of an idea for a book was born. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635838X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Metcalfe1529006031|title= Blind Water Pass and other storiesReturn to Wonderland|author=Various Authors|rating= 4.5|genre= Short Stories|summary= Anna MetcalfeIn following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's debut collection Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of short stories is a treasure trove age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of language, cultures-it did not gel, and beautifully written proseI don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. The I had every chance to enjoy these short stories are bound together with that come at the core from a loose theme tangent, that show the benefits of communicationthe oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, or miscommunicationallegedly throw-away pieces, across characters and culturesit's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, and the narrators for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of these stories are as different as human beings themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473631815</amazonuk>greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Wendy Brandmark1846974658|title= He Runs the MoonThe Long Path To Wisdom|author=Jan-Philipp Sendker|rating= 3.54|genre= Short Stories |summary= This is On my travels around the first time world, I had read have a tendency to end up in any of Wendy Brandmark's fictionbookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I was intrigued at buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the theme of next person, what I'm really looking for is the stories. She sets out writing short stories about different cities in 'local' – the UScookbook maybe, Denver, Bronx, New York, Cambridge and Bostonthe maps definitely, but also weaves in setting above all: the stories in different erasfolk tales. So we have a collection of stories ranging from the 1950If I ever get to Burma, I won's t need to the 1970'shunt, I can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320601</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Birgul Oguz|title= Hah|rating= 3|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= I was interested to receive this book for review as I knew it was written in a modern, interesting style, being effectively a collection of short stories, but appearing more in a novel structure. I was, however, rather disappointed with the book. Whilst it does have some very fine examples of prose writing within the stories, I felt disconnected from the narrator, who is the daughter of a recently deceased man who was involved in a Turkish military coup in 1980. There is therefore a lot of examples of the narrator relating the conversations they had shared regarding ''revolution'', and the way this had affected the daughter's upbringing and childhood. Another 'story' then delves into a seemingly disconnected wander through the town, whereby we see the narrator working at gutting fish, and talking about a man she finds repulsive, but who appears to be in love with her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>9462380740</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Chuck PalahniukB077969HN8|title=Make Something Up|rating=5Alternative Medicine|genre=Short Stories |summary=What are we to make of that subtitle-seeming writing on the front cover – ''stories you can't unread''? Does that not apply to all good fiction? Clearly it is here due to the reputation of the author, and the baggage his name brings to the page. We'd expect a dramatic approach from anything Palahniuk writes, and an added frisson, an extra layer, from which we might be forced to shrink back. But a lot of the contents don't quite go that far. Yes, things are dramatic, when society starts attaching defibrillators to itself, to create the perfect, simple, care- (''The Price is Right''-, and Kardashian-) free happiness. A man buys a horse for his daughter – but boy is it the wrong horse to buy. A man falls in love – yes, sometimes the plot summaries of these stories really are better off for being short (speaking of which, don't turn to the three-page entrant here as a taster, it'll put you off by dint of being, almost uniquely here, a nothing story). A call centre worker can't convince people he's on the level and even in their country – until someone starts riffing back to him. A housing estate report conveys bad regulation violations, but not as bad as the happenings at a 'Burning Man'-styled festival, in a very clever couple of tales. But many too are the instances where that extra step has been taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587688</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Edwards (editor)|title=Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Laura Solomon

|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=ILaura Solomon'm not big on s publisher describes the short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this bookin ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of surrealism''. Firstly, itI'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I's broadly golden age crime, one m not normally a fan of my weaknesses and secondlyeither, but I've come to two conclusions about the editor is [[book:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a man whose knowledge of golden age crime what the publisher says is probably unsurpassed correct - and heI really enjoyed it. The comedy is not ''too's done us proud, not only with his selection, but with the half-page biographies of the writers, which precede each story. There's just enough there to allow you to place black and the author surrealism is gentle and to direct perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you to other works if you're temptedwere least expecting it. It's an elegant selection, from the well known and the less well known, all set Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in and around the country housenicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Abercrombie9386897504|title=Sharp EndsTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon

|genre=FantasyShort Stories|summary=I often feel 've always believed that short stories are an indulgence on the part less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of the author, they get skill and talent to write down a lot of their ideas that don't really fit into a larger short storywhich holds the reader and keeps them coming back for more. The stop/start nature There are far too many collections of them never sits well with me, just as I am starting short stories which are all too easy to get to know put down and forget after you've read a character they are gone. One way couple of solving this would be to use characters that a fan will already know; perhaps explore the past, or the futurepieces. That sounds great for I've recently read a fancouple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, but how so I was intrigued to see what she could do you do this whilst also catering for a new reader?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104678</amazonuk>with an even shorter form.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Taylor1986586898|title=Going To The ShoreLast: Short Stories About Horse Racing|author=K D Knight

|summary=The first In the opening story we hear from the Shore, a group man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of isolated islands off whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the coast ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of VirginiaH'', the story of Foinavon. H is from Chloe, depicted as a kind horse who's telling her sister about what she overheard in only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the storeyard of John Kempton. She'd been there buying chicken necks so that they could go crabbingH (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. Normally they used bacon rindsIn one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, but they'd already eaten thosea pile-up occurred at the 23rd fence. Cabel Bloxom Foinavon, who had been murdered many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=9386897296|title=Hell's Unveiling|author=Laura Solomon|rating=3.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=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''they done cut his thang clean off. 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. The girls are motherless He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and Chloe is fiercely protective particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her little sister Reneefoster children are concerned. SheDaniel is framed for a crime he didn's t commit and sent to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course, there are all the first other children who are not only targeted but - worst of all - subverted to the strong women wedevil's evil ends. He'll encounter in these storiess out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, which interlink complete with an elevator to give a greater pictureHell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959188X</amazonuk>