"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth 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.
Authors include Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Jenn Ashworth, Helen Simpson, Charles Wilkinson, Rebecca Swirsky, Matthew Sperling, Julianne Pachico, KJ Orr, Bee Lewis, Uschi Gatward, Emma Cleary and Neil Campbell.
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is the author of six short story collections - Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories, London Gothic, Manchester Uncanny and Paris Fantastique - and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than two dozen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who also 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, which continues to publish original short stories in the form of limited-edition chapbooks. He lives in Manchester and London.
Inhalt
Introduction
Hilary Mantel
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher August 6th 1983
Julianne Pachico
Lucky
Bee Lewis
The Iron Men
Jonathan Gibbs
Festschrift
Jenn Ashworth
Five Thousand Lads a Year
Neil Campbell
LS Lowry/ Man Lying on a Wall
Emma Cleary
Lightbox
Jim Hinks
Green Boots' Cave
Uschi Gatward
The Clinic
Tracey S Rosenberg
May the Bell Be Rung For Harriet
Helen Simpson
Strong Man
Matthew Sperling
Voice Over
K J Orr
The Lake Shore Limited
Tamar Hodes
The First Day
Alan Mccormick
Go Wild in the Country
Helen Marshall
Secondhand Magic
Charles Wilkinson
Fresh Water
Rebecca Swirsky
The Common People
Alison Moore
Eastmouth
Julianne Pachico
The Tourists
Joanna Walsh
Worlds From the Word's End
Contributors' Biographies
Acknowledgements