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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.

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.

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.

Emma Simon‿s wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems ‿ mysterious, mythic, magical ‿ remain deeply accessible, while being witty and serious. An unforgettable debut collection.

Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is haunted by loss yet these poems defy despair by stepping emphatically into the liberating realm of strangeness.

Becky Varley Winter's striking debut explores themes of daring, danger and risk in poems that are packed with imagery from the natural world. Complex, hypnotic, memorable - this collection introduces a significant new voice.

Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and immensely readable, Williams's picaresque medieval fantasy is a reader's delight. A sweeping yarn through the dark ages filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, witchcraft, failed promise, wisdom and regret.

In Forgetting Is How We Survive, people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for lost futures. Each character faces a turning point - an event that will move their life from one path to another, and every event casts a shadow.

Haunting and funny stories that explore the theme of town versus country with a dark humour and a surreal spin.

These are tales from the twilit scablands - stories of austerity, masochism, migration, as well as unexpected laughter, music, even bubbles.

Rob A. Mackenzie's new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary ranging from the murk of political engagement in an age of offence sensibility, to the bleached-out culture of munificent late-capitalism.

Sennitt Clough's twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgshire, only to discover that the inhabitants are far more frightening than the carnival. Rich in symbolism and mythology, it's a thrilling read that will leave your mind as black as peat.

Winner of the 2012 Polari Prize "The Frost Fairs" is a moving book with a global and historical reach, dealing with love in many forms from modern transatlantic relationships to hidden gay lives from the past. Formally deft yet deeply poignant, these poems use language filled with imagination and musicality in their exploration of the possibilities of the human heart.

This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture. Dazzling, playful, and experimental, it veers between the real, the surreal and the absurd.

Nameless Lake traces with forensic intensity the moments that shape our lives but go unregarded because we don't know how to talk about them.