Full Description
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 anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.
Featuring stories by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown, Krishan Coupland, Claire Dean, Niven Govinden, Françoise Harvey, Andrew Michael Hurley, Daisy Johnson, James Kelman, Giselle Leeb, Courttia Newland, Vesna Main, Eliot North, Irenosen Okojie, Laura Pocock, David Rose, Deirdre Shanahan, Sophie Wellstood and Lara Williams.
Contents
Nicholas Royle - Introduction
Courttia Newland - Reversible
Rosalind Brown - General Impression of Size and Shape
Giselle Leeb - As You Follow
Jay Barnett - Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Andrew Michael Hurley - While the Nightjar Sleeps
Krishan Coupland - The Sea in Me
Vesna Main - Safe
Sophie Wellstood - The First Hard Rain
Françoise Harvey - Never Thought He'd Go
Peter Bradshaw - Reunion
Laura Pocock - The Dark Instruments
Irenosen Okojie - Filamo
Lara Williams - Treats
Deirdre Shanahan - The Wind Calling
David Rose - Ariel
Claire Dean - Is-and
Eliot North - This Skin Doesn't Fit Me Any More
James Kelman - Words and Things to Sip
Niven Govinden - Waves
Daisy Johnson - Language
Contributors' Biographies
Acknowledgements
