I personaggi di queste storie sono colti nel momento in cui tutto precipita. Nel momento in cui perdono – l’amore, la rotta nella vita, la capacità di parlare – o nel momento in cui raccolgono – le penne, i pensieri, il fiato. Nel momento in cui qualcosa sta per coglierli di sorpresa o cambiargli per sempre la vita. Sono incontri minuscoli – con una persona amata, un’opera d’arte, la natura. Incontri sospesi nel tempo, vicinissimi ma mai accaduti veramente, di continuo ripercorsi nelle lor...

A WINNER OF THE 2021 BETTY TRASK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021_****_________________________'Joyous' SPECTATOR'Remarkable' SUNDAY TIMES'A playful delight... A glorious novel' OBSERVERSwansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary is riddled with fictitious entries known as mountweazels pe...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEA Granta Best Young British Novelist'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR‘Poignant and playful’ DAILY MAIL‘A writer with few real rivals’ IRISH TIMES'A visionary writer' JAN CARSONThe stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning aut...

Londra, il Diciannnovesimo secolo è al tramonto quando Peter Winceworth, della rinomata casa editrice Swansby, riceve dal professor Gerolf Swansby in persona l’ingrato compito di aggiornare il Nuovo Dizionario Enciclopedico Swansby alla lettera S. Il lessicografo, che è solito dire neceffario e peccaminofo, sparpaglia sulla scrivania i suoi foglietti azzurri coperti di parole che cominciano per la fatidica consonante, ma voci e lemmi si trasformano subito in fastidiosi si...

A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018‘The real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing’ MAX PORTER'She has arrived in a class of her own' SARAH PERRY'Funny, playful and utterly bravura' MELISSA HARRISONThe thrillingly original, word-of mouth hit short story collection that launched the career of one of our most accla...

Londres, 1899. Peter Winceworth, lexicógrafo de profesión, anda enfrascado en pulir la definición de las palabras que comienzan por la letra S para el Diccionario Enciclopédico Swansby. Tarea peliaguda donde las haya teniendo en cuenta que desde niño, quién sabe por qué, tal vez por tedio o por llevar la contraria, Winceworth finge que cecea, y últimamente no puede reprimir el impulso, de cuando en cuando, de colar en el diccionario la definición más precisa posible de una palabra que acab...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEA Granta Best Young British Novelist'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR‘Poignant and playful’ DAILY MAIL‘A writer with few real rivals’ IRISH TIMES'A visionary writer' JAN CARSONThe stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning aut...

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A young woman’s birthday party is disturbed by the vision of a homeless man sleeping under an arrangement of mocking fruit...A late-night text conversation goes awry when a forwarded link to a live feed of gathering walruses doesn’t have its intended effect...A woman hopes a pending announcement to her in-laws will finally give her husband the attention he craves...The stories shortlisted for the 2020 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University demonstr...

What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream?These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories – from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today – tell of determination, endeavour and perseverance against the odds. They range across wildly different contexts and cultures, from the epic to the intimate, in fiction and non-fiction, illustrating and illumin...

A collection of stories written in duet.Eight highly original stories, each woven from the joint inspiration of two amazing writers.Sixteen celebrated authors respond, play, twist and develop their story in turn. Without the certainty of being in full control, Duets brings a new dimension to the drama of reading and writing.

At a time that feels unprecedented in British politics – with unlawful prorogations of parliament, casual race-baiting by senior politicians, and a climate crisis that continues to be ignored – it’s easy to think these are unchartered waters for us, as a democracy.But Britain has seen political crises and far-right extremism before, just as it has witnessed regressive, heavy-handed governments. Much worse has been done, or allowed to be done, in the name of the people and eventuall...