On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by themselves, jam pots and milk jugs appear on the breakfast table as if by magic, and things go bump in the night.
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.
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.
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.
When Nikki and Rob uncover childminder Bobbi’s secret everything changes. Bobbi has a child-shaped hole in her life her ‘silver fox’ lover can’t fill. Troubled young couple, Kim and Connor... Læs mere
The Ophelia Letters explores the interaction between self and place, and the way the normal can become strange and freighted with magic.
Set mostly in the early 1950s, this is a highly fictionalised account of an unmarried woman’s struggle with her family and with society at large during her pregnancy and the years following.... Læs mere
Some Bright Elegance captures those moments of transformation when people, places or objects take on new significances. In the book this is explored in relation to bereavement, the transcendental qualities of music and the search for understanding between people.
In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohn’s work shows the intense relationship between agency and... Læs mere
From Ovid’s Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, The Word for Sorrow, brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbinding poems give voice to the universal... Læs mere
The poems in More Shadow Than Bird are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived.
Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and dramatist. His first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers was published by Stride Books. He has worked as regional... Læs mere