The Best British Short Stories 2012

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Royle is the author of five short story collections – Mortality , Ornithology , The Dummy , London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny – and seven novels, most recently First Novel . He has edited thirty anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who published his books-about-books, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf . In 2009 he founded Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories in chapbook format. Forthcoming, from Confingo Publishing, is Paris Fantastique , and Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books (Salt). Socrates Adams lives in Manchester and works as a bookseller. His first novel, Everything’s Fine, was published by Transmission Print in January 2012. He has had stories published in Shoestring, Word Soup: Year One and Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds. A.K. Benedict read English at Cambridge and studied creative writing at Sussex. She has composed film and TV soundtracks and has published short stories and poems in small journals. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, is due to be published in late 2012. Neil Campbell is a short story writer, novelist and poet. From Manchester, England, he has appeared three times in the annual anthology of Best British Short Stories (2012/2015/2016). He has published four collections of short fiction, two novels, two poetry chapbooks and one poetry collection, as well as appearing in numerous magazines and anthologies. Ramsey Campbell is the author of numerous novels and short story collections. He has been described, by the Oxford Companion to English Literature, as ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’. He is the President of both the British Fantasy Society and the Society of Fantastic Films. He lives on Merseyside. Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels including her latest, The Purple Shroud . The Room of Lost Things and State of Happiness were long-listed for the Orange Prize. She won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2002 ( Martha Grace ) and 2013 ( Come Away With Me ), and Stonewall Writer of the Year in 2008 (The Room of Lost Things) and 2010 ( Theodora ). She has reviewed for The Review Show (BBC2), Front Row (BBCRadio4) and written articles for most major newspapers in the UK. In addition to her writing work she is a theatre director and performer. Stuart Evers is the author of two short story collections, Ten Stories About Smoking and Your Father Sends His Love , and a novel, If This is Home . He lives in London with his family. Julian Gough was born in London, grew up in Ireland and now lives in Berlin. He is the author of the novels Juno & Juliet and Jude. His short story, ‘The Orphan and the Mob’, won the 2007 BBC Short Story Prize. Joel Lane was born in 1963 and lives in Birmingham. He is the author of the novels From Blue to Black and The Blue Mask as well as a novella and four collections, The Earth Wire, The Lost District, The Terrible Changes and the booklet Do Not Pass Go. He has also edited or co-edited three anthologies of short stories. Jo Lloyd, brought up in Wales, has won the Asham Short Story Award and the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize. Her stories have appeared in New Short Stories 3, Cut to the Bias and Riptide. ‘Tarnished Sorry Open’ received a McGinnis-Ritchie Award from Southwest Review for the best fiction published in the magazine in 2011. Award-winning poet and playwright Jaki McCarrick was born in London to Irish parents...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicholas Royle
• Con la collaborazione di: Nicholas Royle (Editore)
• Editore: Macmillan Distr. Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2012
• EAN: 9781907773181
• ISBN: 978-1-907773-18-1
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: Best British Short Stories
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi