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[[Category:Short Stories|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreview <!-- 19/5 -->Frontpage|author=Lightfall Literary Agency Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (EditorTranslator)|title=The Obsidian Poplar and Other StoriesAccidentals|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'll confess that I This collection was a little nervous about ''The Obsidian Poplar and Other Stories''. There's a common misconception that short stories are easy - something run off quickly before the author gets on with doing the proper job truly enchanting in all senses of a full-length work, but the truth is rather different. A short story has none of the luxuries of a longer workword: plot development has to be done quicklyspellbinding with its fantastical, characters have to come off the page. Every word must earn magical elements and charming in its keepgentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. A book can be written - Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a short story must be ''crafted''. But what made me particularly nervous here was wisdom that all the authors are students - and the editor was convinced that there are ten of them who are good enough appears to want to be included in teach us something about the bookworld.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00JH1B94E</amazonuk>1804271470
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De CataldoMariana Enriquez|title=JudgesA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'll confess Mariana Enriquez writes horror that it was the name is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of [[:Category:Andrea Camilleri|Andrea Camilleri]] which brought me disused refrigerators due to this book. I'm a long-time fan of his Inspector Montalbano series an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a recent reading of a spincrime-off [[Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri|novella]] had proved to me that the concise nature of his fullridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -length novels was no flukeall within Argentina. In ''Judges'' we had another novella - worth buying for its own sake - and the bonus The circumstances of two more stories from better-than-decent Italian authors. All her characters are so plausible that was needed was the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a glass of wine and a comfortable chairsimilarly tangible texture. Did the book live up to expectation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857052977</amazonuk>1803511230
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lying Under the Apple TreeFyodor Dostoyevsky|authortitle=Alice MunroWhite Nights|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Munro packs an extraordinary amount into a short story. Some of them are quite long for short storiesAs always in Dostoyevsky, and they are not the sorts of stories that might suit reading on your daily commute; they demand more attention than thatcharacter work is sublime. Her observations of human behaviour are acute, and the most innocuous of them will set you One is never left wondering what a character is thinking a great deal. Most of the stories warrant a pause for thought or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and need a little time for absorption of detailtemperaments with remarkable clarity.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593777</amazonuk>0241619785
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{{Frontpage
|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M|title=Something Like HappySuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=John BurnsideMark C Wallfisch
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=How do you pick ''Got a name for minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a short story collection? It seems to me the flash.''''Some are funny.Some are poignant.All are short.and other stories'' add-on is like picking a favourite child, Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a promotion flavour of one portion of the content above the rest. [[:Category:John Burnside|John Burnside]] has got a title fully rounded little story if that story here, but such is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the mood flash fictions in a book of the book them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that he seems to have nailed the matterfor this collection, and picked the most apposite nameauthor Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That''Something Like Happy'' could s about a single page in a way be the title for practically every piece hereyour average paperback.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brief Loves That Live ForeverRachel Harrison|authortitle=Andrei MakineBad Dolls|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Our unnamed narrator is inspired to think back through his life on the girls and women he has It's been in love with, partly because of a some time spent with an associate – a time marked by a seemingly most unremarkable encounter with a further woman – whom he deemed had never been lovedsince I've read any horror. The associateI had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, you see, had spent borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half his adult life in Soviet camps silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for political instruction – our narrator himself was an orphan in fear of the 1960svampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn' Soviet Union. t like that! This snappy volume takes us through episodes in several lives at different points It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and since I found most of that feeling came from the second half of communist rule – fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and finally explains that at least in part, the import of that unremarkable encounter…horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870493</amazonuk>1803363932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth HaynesB0CCCVRSGX|title=Promises to Keep: A Short StoryStories 2|author=Richard F Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Jo This is haunted by the death Richard F Walker's second volume of a teenage asylum seeker whilst short stories. There are thirteen in police custody all and she only hangs on to her fragile sanity by runningI took something from each of them. Whilst sheThere isn's out in the woods (where she'd been warned t a single one that she ''really'' shouldndoesn't go) she discovered a young boy living rough and she knew that she had to do everything in her power deserve to keep him safe. There were complications. Her partner was DS Sam Hollands who had a direct involvement with asylum seekers - and be among the boy living rough in the woods was the younger brother of others or brings down the dead teenageroverall quality. Sam wanted It can be tricky to get her relationship with Jo back onto an even keelreview short stories without giving too much away, but one night she returned from work so I'll just pick two to find talk about and I think they give a stranger in her housegeneral flavour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00I9GXP2M</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.''
I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=The Rental Heart and other FairytalesStories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Kirsty LoganRichard F Walker|rating=3.54
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=To start with, are these stories strictly fairytales? On ''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the evidence middle of this collection, it is at times the night; a distinction that seems open to debate, wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a category that lies waiting stickler for definition. But at the same correct grammar goes back in 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 to correct an iconic quote; a life's romantic history via a twist on volunteer teacher proves the idea that we give our heart away ideal person to every lover – what do we have when they are gone and around in a lawless village; the new one takes their place? Elsewhereboy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, a landed lady takes advantage and awfully familiar…'' This collection of her servant, and another cultured madam hires thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a clockwork companion lot to shrug off offer the suitors, with obvious, narratively logical resultseclectic reader. A medical worker and her pregnant partner share a caravan Tying them together, all is the while knowing a different circumstance might be closer than first thought. We have the beginnings of love livesidea that remarkable and strange, the end of hatredeven miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and the end tone varies so this little treasury of the world in these pagesshort fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773754</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=Further Encounters of Sherlock HolmesBag O'Goodies|author=George Mann (Editor)Jolly Walker Bittick
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Hot on the heels of Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Encounters of Sherlock Holmes Cape Henry House by George Mann (Editor)Jolly Walker Bittick|Encounters of Sherlock HolmesCape Henry House]] comes another collection , a rollicking tale of brandwhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-new tales written by some length novel, so I turned to this anthology of the brightest creative minds from the genres of science fiction verse and crimeshort stories. In this anthology, Holmes Bittick's writing has matured - and Watson are pitched headlong into twelve different mysterious scenarios and invited to unravel secrets and unmask villains as only they know howso have his characters. Well.. During their adventures they come face to face with a mountain monster, take a murderous boat trip, meet Moriarty’s siblings and even indulge in a little space travel. The game is afootmost of them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116004X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Rose (writer of short stories)1529418100|title=Posthumous StoriesBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=These sixteen I'm not usually a fan of short stories have one thing in common: lives, - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and plenty of them. We jump from the earthy banter of a road crew building speed humps forget to an interview prepick it up again -broadcast but I am a fan of a classical piece where Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the interviewer isntemptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't getting the kind of answers for which he hopeseven try. On the way we meet For those new to the least-mentioned Beatleseries, visit a world where people are paid there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to read for the many that donknow about who't s who and the man trying background to remember his father through art to name but a fewwhy Bruno is in St Denis. For good measure there are a couple of Kafka-esque experiments that also work as ripping good yarns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08NF79QXT|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersBrooke Adams|rating=53|genre=Confident ReadersWomen's Fiction|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 Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has gone from black and whitehad her shop, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBCCherry Blossom Boutique, fullfor just six months when she's nominated for -gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of wayswins - the Retail Best Newcomer Award. So with She's delighted and the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving two people pressing a red button she's brought with her to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanzaevent couldn't be more pleased. Such as this bookSonja, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespanher mother, is an ex-model and Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from being a loose collection of eleven short e. Jessica's thirty-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writingfour and Liberty's best friend: they've known each other since university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, to a huge Charles and brilliant paperback collecting everything within their four-year-old daughter, Ava. Life would be perfect for Liberty if it wasn't for one set of coversthing: she misses having a man in her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=Of Lions and Unicorns: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master StorytellerBut Never For Lunch|author=Michael MorpurgoSandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=''Of Lions and Unicorns'' is If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a collection pampered peacock about to be released into the company of short stories carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and extracts from Morpurgo’s most popular books. The book is split into five sections, which focus on recurring themes in paying his writingown gas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08CHJLNBS|title=The Science of HerselfCapturing Emilia|author=Karen Joy FowlerBrooke Adams
|rating=3
|genre=Short StoriesWomen's Fiction|summary=IHe've said it befores Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and I'll say it again. The most fun when facing a new author, especially a big name onepartner at Wickham Jones, is to come through the undergroundMayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, tackling the smaller workstwenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the quirkier output, the less representative sections of her or his oeuvreheritage library next door. And for those who have or haven't Emilia has read ''[[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Jane Austen Book ClubSecret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, there to something a little deeper. Charles is plenty of potential for that with the rest more of a [[The Case of the Imaginary Detective Personal by Karen Joy FowlerLee Child|Karen Joy FowlerJack Reacher]]man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, for her output includes almost as many selections so why can Charles not get this woman out of short stories as his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it does very successful novels, and what's more they carry the science fictional bannerobvious to his friends. A long time ago there was And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a teenage me very happy to be reading non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Marie O'Lord Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Cursed: An Anthology of the Flies'Dark Fairy Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Curses. They' re there throughout tales of faery and writing an essay about how sci-fi it wasother fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, and I or not to be able to do relish that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the mainstream author entering verge of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a genre, or way there's no escaping it. Which is why the inverse theme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and thatother bewitched person. But boy, I normally come away a lot happier than I did hereWe'd be very wrong.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1604868252</amazonuk>1789091500
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate MosseStibbe_Xmas|title=The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting TalesAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=This book of 14 short stories and a short play is based on Christmas – the ideatime of hauntingtraditional trauma. Sometimes You only have to think about the haunting is turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the ghostly kind downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and sometimessomething psychologically deeper and more primalif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. All the stories drift Nowadays it's all having tous from different erasmake sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, both past and recentget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, but all have one thing is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash incommon: they centre on hand for a troubled person. For instance we meet Gastonlot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always aFrench child who witnesses an odd event on godsend for postmen with all the beach just after losing hisparents. In the inevitably touching but beautiful ''Red Letter Day'' wetravel thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a French castle with decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a woman who has an appointment with child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the past.year?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0954899520|title=A Winter Book|author=Tove Jansson|rating=5|genre=Literary FictionIf you want something completely different, there|summary=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'The Duet'' which drawsus into 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 fascinating dialogue feeling for the natural world and then hits us with a stingthe simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1911115847|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacNights of the Creaking Bed|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerToni Kan
|rating=4
|genre=AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor WhoNights 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 assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeria. Nigeria, in this collection, there is something about imbued with its very own heart of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and people are killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a good time-travel story vitality and passion that has the power allows these cynical stories to ignite achieve a glimmer of hope.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529014484|title=Exhalation |author=Ted Chiang|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Over the imagination in past twenty-eight years, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a way unique to the genre. Perhaps science fiction fan it is due to the fact likely that when dealing with you have already come across some of the subject of time travel, literally work by Ted Chiang. If you haven''anything is possible''. Well, almost anythingt then take this opportunity to do so now...apart from going back in time and killing Trust me; your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universeimagination will be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diana Wells1794467440|title=Odes and Prose for Older WomenWatchwords |author=Philip Neal
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=I am, This satisfying collection of course, not an older woman and nether is Diana Wells. We were born in short stories has a provenance at least as beguiling as the same year and we are what is best described as 'upper middle aged', but - perhaps in anticipation provenance of what is to come - Diana has collected together her writings on the subject and I read through them in two sittings (the break was enforced) and I laughed and cried, but the wry smile of recognition never left my face from beginning to end. There are about eighty five short stories and odes - with none more than a few pages long - written, we are told, from observation, experience or imagination and I can only conclude antique watches that Wells has led a very rich lifeinspired it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780356838</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529006031|title=Dear LifeReturn to Wonderland|author=Alice MunroVarious Authors
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice Munro has made an art form 's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of short story writingage]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don''Dear Life'' is t remember loving it more as a collection of truly beautiful child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short storiesthat come at the core from a tangent, perfectly crafted in a way that leaves no wanting feelingshow the benefits of the oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, as is often an issue and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short stories. Each of novella than the 14 stories contained within the collection is whole Twilight saga (although that remains just that; a story in its own righthunch, for obvious reasons). There is no getting caught up and lost in style and literary flare For another thing, but a cool prosethere was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, a calmness of tone and good strong stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578638</amazonuk>surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846974658|title=The Complete Short Stories: Volume TwoLong Path To Wisdom|author=Roald DahlJan-Philipp Sendker|rating=54
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Having only recently read On my travels around the first volume of this collection of all of Roald Dahl’s short stories world, I couldn’t help but think of the phrase ''too much of have a good thing'' although tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I have never really agreed with buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the phrase (next person, what I could happily gorge on chocolate or whisky 'm really looking for days without is the slightest regret) I am still pleased that this book provides yet more evidence of 'local' – the inaccuracy of cookbook maybe, the expression. With stories as diverse as a butler getting revenge on his employer and a baby being brought up on royal jelly by a fanatical bee lovermaps definitely, these are but above all: the folk tales of horror. If I ever get to Burma, humourI won't need to hunt, adventure, love and all out weirdnessI can read before I go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B077969HN8|title=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesAlternative Medicine|author=Cecily Gayford (editor)Laura Solomon
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This collection of classic ghost Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories covers all kinds in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy with a twist of chilling talessurrealism''. There are physical ghosts I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan of either, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says is correct - and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though I really enjoyed it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story The comedy is preceded with some information on not ''too'' black and the authorsurrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting it. The stories Your comfort zones are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England going to sultry summers be invaded in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagasthe nicest possible way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aimee Bender9386897504|title=The Color MasterTales of Love and Disability|author=Laura Solomon|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Another parade I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of fascinating, unusual personalities skill and oddevents from talent to write a short story which holds the author reader and keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple of pieces. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Willful Creatures Marsha's Deal by Aimee BenderLaura Solomon|WillfulCreaturesMarsha's Deal]]. This time out and [[:Category:Aimee BenderHell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|AimeeHell's Unveiling]]introduces us to people like Hans the fake Naziand enjoyed them, young William so I was intrigued to whomall people look the same and Janet who decides to spice up herlove-life see what she could do with detrimental results. Among other things we alsowitness a less-than-altruistic anti-war demonstration and an oddoccurrence in an orchard showing how odd an apple-only diet could makeuseven shorter form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953898</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1986586898|title=Going To The Complete Last: Short Stories: Volume OneAbout Horse Racing|author=Roald DahlK D Knight
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Roald Dahl’s name on In the opening story, a book man whose wife has for me always meant I was deserted him visits Sandown with little money but comes away with cash in for a fun his pocket - and imaginative readhis wife. His children’s books are In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the pinnacle problem of children’s literature and combine fantastic ideas with wordplay and some whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the most amusing characters and situationsstory of Foinavon. The stories for H is depicted as a younger audience always managed kind horse who only wanted to thrill please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and entertain both adult and child and reading them aloud is considered a joyno-hoper. 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 the most dramatic runnings of short storiesthe race, a pile-up occurred at the 23rd fence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405910100< Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/amazonuk>1.
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{{newreview|title=The Dinner Club and Other Stories|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Being on home dinners gives Aidan the chance to make some money...''<br>''A bridesmaid and a page chase a runaway wedding cake...''<br>''Mia and her Dad turn detective...'' These are just a few of the premises you can try out for size in Rob Keeley's third book of short stories for middle grade readers. He's really having some fun with this format. I approve. We need more short story collections for this age group. They're entertaining and they appeal particularly to reluctant readers. Short stories like this can act as a springboard to full-length novels.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783060603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview9386897296|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan PoeHell's 1st DetectiveUnveiling|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)Laura Solomon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This brilliant A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and varied collection I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of short stories a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is the product not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a current academic interest 'goody two shoes' in cross-cultural translationHell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Francisco Guillen Serés Daniel is framed for a Catalan professor of Art History from Aragon. A Russophile, crime he has travelled widely didn't commit and sent to collect stories from those writing during the past hundred years of Russian history. These have been translated into Catalan juvenile detention and then into Englishrefused permission to return to live with Marsha. These unusual and delightful stories Then, some twenty one of them written by five writers read fluently and engagingly. They form an informative tapestry of Soviet and post-Soviet lifecourse, moving back in time with there are all the older, earlier writers like Bergchenko, other children who died in the siege are not only targeted but - worst of Stalingrad, at all - subverted to the enddevil's evil ends. Ranging over mythic He's out to prey on their fears and symbolic tales to realistic portrayals of personal relationships; love trysts in St Petersburgweaknesses and as with many foster children, their self-esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, ferocious bears in either - the deep heart of the Taiga devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to the perils of becoming lost in continuous orbit in space. All aspects are impressively recountedHell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705158X</amazonuk>
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