Following on from Sticks and Stones, the May break your bones anthology is a collection of fifty powerful stories from all around the world. In under 1000 words, they have the power to transport you, to make you laugh, cry, and everything in between.AuthorsAbigail Williams, Adam Brannigan, Alison Wassell, Andy Kind, Anna Hopwood, Carey Camburn, C. Finity, Denise Bayes, Denny Jace, Donna L. Greenwood, Eleanor Luke, Emily Midgley, Emily Ives-Keeler, Felicity Lucas, Finley Hopm...

'Dazzling.' The Times'Exceptional.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Observer'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'A miracle.' Wall Street Journal*Winner of the RSL Encore Award****Longlisted for the Booker Prize*November 1944.** A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant.

Irish Book of the Year FinalistAn Amazon “Best Books of the Year So Far”An Irish Times Book Club SelectionAn eccentric young woman searches for friendship, understanding, and belonging as she roams Dublin in this “wildly funny” debut from an exciting voice in Irish literature (New York Times Book Review)Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in—and never has. As a child, she was s...

The best of the best …This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense, love, fantasy, grief and revenge. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian fiction at its very best.Contributors include: Murray Bail, D...

*Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*'Outstanding.' Guardian'Eleven perfect stories.' Irish Independent'Glorious.' The Times'My FAVE collection ever.' Pandora SykesIn eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwan...

For fans of I MAY DESTROY YOU and FLEABAG and for readers who want to laugh and cry: the brave, beautiful, sometimes brutal story of a young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way.'I loved Tennis Lessons so much. Susannah is a phenomenally talented writer' ELIZABETH DAY'A raw, fierce, shockingly honest coming-of-age story' LOUISE O'NEILL'Incredibly funny...

A SHORT STORY FROM THE AUTHOR OF JUST WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU?What would you risk for the one you love?Catherine has returned to the sleepy Lake District town of Windermere, after ten years away. Once successful and wealthy, she’s shunned by her old friends and desperate for work.But there’s someone that’s keeping her here . . . and something that she’s got to do before she leaves for ever . . .PRAISE FO...

"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, magazine...

'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim – another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals – all touched in life-changing ways.David is on a family holiday on the bleak Lincolnshir...

‘Lauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers’ Dolly AldertonGwen is coasting through life. She’s in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the countryside and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around the council’s wheelie-bin timetable.And she’s lonely. But then, isn’t everyone?When she’s made redundant from a job she hardly cares about, she takes herself out for a fancy ...

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning Aliya Whiteley, deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies.Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed 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...