Full Description
Shortlisted for the East Midland's Book Award 2014
The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Specsavers National Book Awards 2012.
The stories collected here range from her first prize-winning short story (which appeared in a small journal in 2000) to new and recently published work. In between, Moore's stories have been shortlisted for more than a dozen different awards including the Bridport Prize, the Fish Prize, the Lightship Flash Fiction Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Nottingham Short Story Competition. The title story won first prize in the novella category of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes.
Contents
Acknowledgements
When the Door Closed, It Was Dark
Humming and Pinging
The Egg
Overnight Stop
Glory Hole
Nurture
Seclusion
Sleeping Under the Stars
Jetsam
Monsoon Puddles
It Has Happened Before
The Yacht Man
The Machines
Wink Wink
If There's Anything Left
Static
Sometimes You Think You Are Alone
A Small Window
The Smell of the Slaughterhouse
Helicopter Jean
Small Animals
Trees in the Tarmac
Late
The Pre-War House
