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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year.
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.
This new anthology includes stories by Owen Booth, Kelly Creighton, Colette de Curzon, Mike Fox, M. John Harrison, Tania Hershman, Brian Howell, Jane McLaughlin, Alison MacLeod, Jo Mazelis, Wyl Menmuir, Adam O'Riordan, Iain Robinson, C. D. Rose, Adrian Slatcher, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Chloe Turner, Lisa Tuttle, Conrad Williams and Eley Williams.
Sommario
- Nicholas Royle - Introduction
- Colette De Curzon - Paymon's Trio
- Adam O'Riordan - A Thunderstorm in Santa Monica
- Jane Mclaughlin - Trio for Four Voices
- William Thirsk-Gaskill - How to Be An Alcoholic
- Alison Macleod - We Are Methodists
- Adrian Slatcher - Life Grabs
- M John Harrison - Dog People
- Jo Mazelis - Skin
- Conrad Williams - Cwtch
- Kelly Creighton - And Three Things Bumped
- Wyl Menmuir - In Dark Places
- Owen Booth - The War
- Tania Hershman - And What if All Your Blood Ran Cold
- Mike Fox - The Homing Instinct
- Brian Howell - Mask
- CD Rose - Sister
- Chloe Turner - Waiting for the Runners
- Eley Williams - Swatch
- Lisa Tuttle - The Last Dare
- Iain Robinson - Dazzle
- Contributors' Biographies
- Acknowledgements
Riassunto
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.
Relazione
Salt's 'Best British' series reflects who we are; the state we are in. Britain's modern short story writers are mapping out the million dimensions to a lonely, atomised life. And this anthology holds up that mirror. Like the finest art, it mesmerises as it disturbs.
Tamim Sadikali Bookmunch
