The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year

invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims...

Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes b...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL ...

Longlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024 The countryside - what is it for? A paradise ...

Shortlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024 A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is fou...

The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his ...

1995. Sixteen years since a tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. The '...

This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, ...

A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison an...

'It's a brilliant novel, I think, so sharply observed and so even handed in its treatment of the ...

A debut collection of weird tales from Will Wiles, the award-winning author of

is Zoë Apostolides's debut novel. Quietly disturbing, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year. Best British Short...

Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016 Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted ...

When Laura Cameron, a philosophy professor at a London university, is found dead in a bizarre ech...

An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet...

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A disillusioned, drug-soaked intellectual is escaping 'The Heat' - both literal and metaphorical ...

It is a foggy day. Ruby Grummett, a railway crossing keeper, opens the gates for a council lorry,...

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All is not what it seems in this gripping novel about two sisters' lives: one who leaves her secu...

The 5th novel in the crime series featuring DI Yates, set in South Lincolnshire. When 18 year old...

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Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable pol...

'I know you and this place. You're like a hefted sheep. If you come in, you'll never leave.' At h...

A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husband's sudden death; a ...

Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, ...

(¿¿¿¿¿¿) is Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana's thrilling second collection and is the sequel to Salt be...

A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and ...

Waking up dead was not on 86-year-old Minerva Mae Carmine's bingo card. After a routine colonosco...

Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed met...

Poetry Wars describes the battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s between radicals...

Molly Jones and The Homeplace

Victor E. Wunderlich, Geschichtsprofessor, sitzt (wortwörtlich!) jahrelang ahnungslos auf dem let...

Sometimes the most unexpected thing is joy.At forty-five, Sarah Gormley left her corporate career...

Waking up dead was not on 86-year-old Minerva Mae Carmine's bingo card. After a routine colonosco...

Think a delicious, affordable, and stress-free gluten-free life is impossible? Think again.When S...

'The Salt Companion to Carter Revard' is a groundbreaking collection of essays on the work of Osa...

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover ‿ or more accurately, by it...

Book of the Week: The Idler

This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental w...

A lost girl and a sprawling map of an unsettling city. Wren Lithgow has followed her concert pian...

'So, where is he then, your dad?' The world may be on a precipice but Sol, fresh from Tucson-dese...

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Greetings from Below chronicles the life of Nick Danze, a young man who suffers from several 'fix...

Emery's new book presents a dazzling array of voices: art dealers, TV stars, killers, cowboys, po...

Have you ever wanted a compelling reason to listen to more music? Sound Advice invites readers on...