Things We Say in the Dark ~ Kirsty Logan
DESCRIPTION: So here we go, into the dark. Some things can’t be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. …
Your Duck is My Duck ~ Deborah Eisenberg
DESCRIPTION: At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront the …
Jokes for the Gunmen ~ Mazen Maarouf
DESCRIPTION: These are stories of what the world looks like from a child’s pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective. These are stories of life in a war zone, life …
Because Sometimes Something Extraordinary Happens ~ Debz Hobbs-Wyatt
DESCRIPTION: Seventeen short stories by Debz Hobbs-Wyatt from over a decade of competition wins and shortlistings. Featuring Learning to Fly, winner of the inaugural Bath Short Story Award; Chutney, shortlisted in the …
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Melting Point ~ Baret Magarian
DESCRIPTION: Melting Point fuses prose and poetry, realism and literary inventiveness, in dealing with the absurdity of humanity. Its fourteen stories embrace a dizzying variety of genres: hyperrealism, sci-fi, the Gothic …
The Dressing-Up Box ~ David Constantine
DESCRIPTION: Against the backdrop of war, a group of children barricade themselves in an abandoned townhouse, cherishing what’s left of their innocence with the help of a dressing-up box… A deep-sea …
Kitchen Curse ~ Eka Kurniawan
DESCRIPTION: The acclaimed, Booker-nominated novelist’s first book of stories Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of …
Strange ~ Shreya Sen-Handley
DESCRIPTION: A disenchanted wife embarks on a one-night stand… A wheelchair-bound poet comes home to roost, upsetting the balance of his carer’s life… A troubled mother finds solace in an …
At the End of the Century ~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
DESCRIPTION: Over the course of her glittering literary career, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote some of the most wonderful novels of the twentieth century and screenplays to some of the most …
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That Time I Loved You ~ Carrianne Leung
DESCRIPTION: The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth—new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, …