The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its fourteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2023 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.

**Now with an exclusive extract of Bella Mackie's deliciously dark new 2026 novel CLAWS OUT!**Grace Bernard is on a mission… to avenge her mother, she plans to murder every member of her family, one awful rich person at a time. Then she's imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Entertaining, shocking and addictive… THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN‘Funny, sharp, dark and twis...

*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...

122 fantastic stories from Britain's best crime writersFor ten years the Mammoth Best British Crime series has been publishing an annual volume of the most outstanding crime and mystery short fiction published in the UK. Over 400 stories by the very best writers in the field have been published. Contributors have included, among many others, Mark Billingham, Liza Cody, Roger Jon Ellory, Reginald Hill, Peter James, Simon Kernick, Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid...

Villages are full of tales: some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore. But the fortunes of one West Country village are watched over and irreversibly etched into history as an omniscient, somewhat crabby, presence keeps track of village life.In the late sixties a Californian musician blows through Underhill and writes a set of haunting folk songs that will earn him a cult following. Two decades later, some teenagers disturb a body on the local golf course. In ...

An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by award-winning masters of the genre.Twenty-one brand-new stories of the ominous and terrifying from some of the horror genre's most talented writers. In 'The Dead Thing' Paul Tremblay draws us into the world of a neglected teenage girl and her younger brother and the evil that lurks at the heart of their family. In Gemma Files' 'Bulb' a woman calls in to a podcast to tell the terrifying story of why she has escaped o...

Portico Prize Winner. A "luminous" feminist coming-of-age novel that captures the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother ( The Observer).A Best Book of 2020: Open Letters ReviewIt begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class ch...

Heartbreaking, funny and searingly honest, Susan Duncan’s bestselling memoirs Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek are now available in one special ebook edition.Salvation Creek is the story of a woman who found the courage to not only walk away from a successful career and begin again, but to beat the odds in her own battle for survival and find a new life – and love – in a tiny waterside idyll cut off from the outside world....

Something different! Short stories that surprise, pique and intrigue.This companion volume to Me-Time Tales: tea breaks for mature women and curious men-- now allows the men to have their say...only not completely without interruption from mature women.A collection of unusual short stories that delve into the minds of a variety of curious men: hooked on meteorites, tractor parts, foreign parts, own parts— stories that may be sober, sad, bizarre or cunningly funny. ...

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...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth 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 b...

**'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and indelible in their impact.'WENDY ERSKINE'One of our best short story writers.'THE TIMES**'You'll lose yourself in this collection and, most likely, find yourself too. Each story is a masterclass in attentiveness.'JAN CARSONThe much-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author o...