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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.

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.

Poppyland moves on from D.J. Taylor's Stewkey Blues (2022) to offer more pitch-perfect reportage from his native Norfolk (and beyond it), bringing together a succession of characters who are hanging on from the lives they lead, in an attempt to do for the world of Norwich, Cromer, Hunstanton and Bacton what Annie Proulx does for Wyoming.

1995. Sixteen years since a tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. The 'tynx' was killed, but when sixteen-year-old Lowdy returns to the derelict zoo, is it a coincidence that a freakishly large cat appears to start stalking the village? The Cat Bride views the liminality of teenaged girls through a gothic nineties fug.

Everything is Present is a midlife coming of age tale. It features award-winning elegies for the poet's grandparents and great-grandparents who were victims of the Holocaust as well as a sequence for the poet's mother who died on a locked-down ward during the Pandemic. Poems in the book have won the Wigtown Prize and the Ledbury competition.

Shams is young Syrian refugee woman who lives in Shatila, one of the world's oldest refugee camps. She dreams of education and living a better life in Europe. But there are no schools in the camp, and her family opposes her dreams.

This collection of stories, written especially for BBC Radio 4, includes a ten-part sequence: 'The Circus', set around Cliftonville Circus, where five roads meet in North Belfast.

The collection addresses shared, topical challenges like identity, gender roles, belonging and family, at a time of shifting, heightened uncertainty. Themes which affect all of us like toxic masculinity, family disfunction, war, and climate, in fiercely imaginative, jagged, yet compassionate, sometimes absurdist, surreal fashion.

These are not common-or-garden poems. They don't behave like poems at all. They sing, they dance, they make the reader wince, they get under the skin. Reading New And Selected Poems is like going to a smoke-filled jazz club, or the back streets of a beautiful crazy Italian city. By the time you get home you'll never be the same.

Lie of the Land is a dark, domestic literary thriller set in the Black Country, in the Midlands, UK - an example of Black Country Noir - with themes of toxic relationships, secrets and deceit exacerbated by a judgmental narrative voice which propels the plot to its even darker resolution.

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.

Spring 1927. The birth of popular music. John Coughlin is a song-catcher from New York who has been sent to Appalachia to source and record the local hill-country musicians. His assignment leads him to small-town Tennessee where he oversees the recording session that will establish his reputation.

Pascale Petit's My Hummingbird Father is a beautifully lyrical debut novel in dialogue with Pascale's Ondaatje and Laurel Prize-winning poetry collection, Mama Amazonica.

Claire Meadows, 92, reminiscences about her life, her failed ambition to become a concert pianist, her missed opportunity to have a child, her friends and lovers, mostly dead, she is troubled by the part she played, consciously and deliberately, in the death of her husband.

A debut collection of weird tales from Will Wiles, the award-winning author of Care of Wooden Floors, The Way Inn and Plume.

David Briggs' new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards hospitality.

Pickering's extraordinary wartime novel traces the violent exploits of Operation Lucy - centred on the mysterious 'Hyman Kaplan'.

A major work of historical and political fiction exploring the birth of the Independent Labour Party, its development in the early twentieth century and its fortunes in the interwar years. Including appearances from every leading socialist of the age, it centres upon the historical figures of Fred Jowett, Philip Snowden and Victor Grayson.

An academic visits a town for the first time, but is told he has lived there before; an elderly mother becomes overwhelmed by a sensual past; these are the sharply observed elements to three of the seventeen outstanding stories in this unforgettable collection by the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns.

Birdeye is a novel which shows us what the hippy dream looks like fifty years on, when the secrets which were masked by free spirit and a determined nonconformism force their way to the surface.

Peter DanielsâEUR(TM) new collection explores gay liaisons and relationships, as well as ageing and mortality. The title poem borrows from Yeats, âEURoeThat is no country for old men. The young / In one another's armsâEUR? and explores wryly what we can hope for from love in later years.

Denis Klamm, feckless scion of two former Leaders, returns to the Island for his father's funeral, only to find it sinking. Or the sea rising - it depends what you believe. Either way, they're all going to drown - unless the young, idealistic and newly-elected Leader, Jessica King, really is the saviour long foretold by Our Island Story.

The 'shadow line' is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text block that allows him to see whether a book on a shelf contains an inclusion - those items inserted into books and long forgotten.

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.

Robbergirls is a Sapphic retelling of Hans Christian Andersn's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. It was inspired by a childhood fear of, and desire for, the character of the Robbergirl who both taunts and aids Gerda in her search for her missing playmate, Kay.

Martyn Crucefix's new collection of poems trace two landscapes - contemporary Britain and the countryside of the Marche in central, eastern Italy. Both places are vividly evoked - the coffee shops, traffic tailbacks, shopping malls, tourist-dotted hillsides and valleys of modern Britain appear in stark contrast to the Classical ruins of Italy.

A strikingly beautiful collection from poet and writer Richard Skinner. Haunting lyrics of great formal skills, packed with poignancy and elegance. A book to be read, and memorised, that will delight this author's extensive readership.