Perfect Circle , an illustrated anthology, is volume two in the Uncertain Stories series. The stories tell how life, happenings, folklore, b...

Strangers is a collection of short stories by Rebecca Ruth Gould, some of which first appeared in an earlier version under the longer title ...

When I was sent this book, I was due to attend a tedious round of tests. My wife, who was accompanying me, hijacked the novel, and she enjoy...

If the visual layout and content seem familiar, it’s because Remains is the welcome new venture from Andy Cox, the publisher and editor of ...

I read this book in one sitting. No, I tell a lie, part way through I had to email the author to tell her what a wonderful work she had prod...

While savouring this stunning collection of stories, I kept asking myself (as an avid reader and writer) ‘What’s the most effective way of g...

Lucy Caldwell’s story, ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad,’ won the BBC Short story prize in 2021. Two years earlier, ‘The Children’ was shor...

Brian Howell’s latest collection of short stories, The Man Who Loved Kuras and Other Stories (Salt, 2022), is wonderfully weird. What can b...

Countless people are lost every year. Hannah Stevens’s debut collection of short stories is a haunting exploration of what it means to be mi...

          On the other side of the door was the same kind of sticker, with the NOTHING           scratched out by hand and replaced with EVE...

We are made, destroyed and remade by the stories we are told as we grow up. Maxine Hong Kingston’s fantastic The Woman Warrior: Memoirs ...

Breath Visible is the first collection of short stories by Linda Danz. The stories give fascinating insight into the contemporary lives o...

'Let me start at the beginning, or what I think is the beginning,' says the unnamed narrator in the story, 'The Gentleman on...