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Best British Short Stories 2026

by E. Abdeni-Holman, Jenn Ashworth, Lee Ashworth, David Bevan, Graham Greene, Vicky Grut, Livi Michael, Graham Mort, Annemarie Neary, Yoel Noorali, Richard Phoenix, Ray Robinson, David Rudkin, Sara Sherwood, Karen Stevens, Lucy Thynne, Charlotte Tierney, Tom Vowler, Will Wiles, Kieran Wyatt ...

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Ranging across genre, theme and style, Best British Short Stories 2026 showcases a dazzling array of talent – from established names to emerging voices – as published in literary magazines, journals, anthologies and online during the past year. Among this year's selection is a genuine literary discovery: a previously unpublished story by Graham Greene, 'Reading at Night', unearthed in the archives ... Read more

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Ranging across genre, theme and style, Best British Short Stories 2026 showcases a dazzling array of talent – from established names to emerging voices – as published in literary magazines, journals, anthologies and online during the past year. Among this year's selection is a genuine literary discovery: a previously unpublished story by Graham Greene, 'Reading at Night', unearthed in the archives
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Best British Short Stories 2019

by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, Elizabeth Baines, Naomi Booth, Ruby Cowling, Kieran Devaney, Vicky Grut, Nigel Humphreys, Sally Jubb, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Paul McQuade, Vesna Main, Robert Mason, Ann Quin, Stephen Sharp, Sam Thompson, Melissa Wan, Ren Watson, Adam Welch ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth 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, ... Read more

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth 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,
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Best British Short Stories 2017

by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown, Krishan Coupland, Claire Dean, Niven Govinden, Françoise Harvey, Andrew Michael Hurley, Daisy Johnson, James Kelman, Giselle Leeb, Vesna Main, Courttia Newland, Eliot North, Irenosen Okojie, Laura Pocock, David Rose, Deirdre Shanahan, Sophie Wellstood, Lara Williams, Nicholas Royle ...

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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 ... Read more

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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
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2013

by Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lionel Shriver, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lisa Blower ...

Featuring:Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once the effect has been established, of course.The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 all use ... Read more

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Featuring:Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once the effect has been established, of course.The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 all use
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The Best British Short Stories 2013

by Rob Shearman, Ellis Sharp, Charles Boyle, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Lesley Glaister, Laura Del-Rivo, Jackie Kay, MJ Hyland, Regi Claire, Adam Lively, Guy Ware, Adam Marek, Anneliese Mackintosh, Alex Preston, Alison Moore, David Rose, Ross Raisin, James Wall, Nicholas Royle ...

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The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

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The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new
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Best British Short Stories 2021

by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, A. J. Ashworth, Iphgenia Baal, Emma Bolland, Tom Bromley, Gary Budden, Jen Calleja, Robert Dewa, John Foxx, Josephine Galvin, Uschi Gatward, Meave Haughey, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Isha Karki, Yasmine Lever, Simon Okotie, Mel Pryor, Douglas Thompson, Matthew Turner ...

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh 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
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Best British Short Stories 2022

by Nicholas Royle, RZ Baschir, Seán Padraic Birnie, Christopher Burns, Neil Campbell, Leon Craig, Mona Dash, David Frankel, Uschi Gatward, Rosanna Hildyard, Edward Hogan, Alice M, Paul McQuade, Sophie Mackintosh, Sonya Moor, Ben Pester, Max Porter, Sara Sherwood, Chris Vaughan, Tony White, Will Wiles ...

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth 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
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A Page from My Life

A Selection of Stories from Ray D’Arcy Show Listeners

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‘We asked listeners to be honest, creative, funny, engaging and evocative in their writing…to try to make us laugh, cry and think. We never imagined we would get the quantity and quality of entries that we did for A Page from My Life.’ – Ray D’ArcyIn the midst of the Covid crisis, the Ray D’Arcy Show invited RTÉ Radio 1 listeners to send in ‘A Page from My Life’: 500 words on a memorable event, or ... Read more

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The Wish Dog

Haunting tales from Welsh women writers

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Anthology of wholly original ghostly tales from new and established Welsh women writers ... Read more

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Thanks For Nothing

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Comedian Jack Dee's hilarious account of how he became quite such a miserable git and a stand up comedian.'A brilliant book. So funny. It's my bible' Paul O'GradyIn this hilariously frank account of his life, Jack Dee finally reveals what turned a once optimistic young man into this grumpy middle-aged git. It's a journey that takes him from a first gig as a ventriloquist's dummy, to working in an
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Villager

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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 ... Read more

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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
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