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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 anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web
sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one
volume. This new anthology includes stories by 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 and Matthew
Turner.
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PROTOTYPE 1 (Paperback)
Astrid Alben; Rachael Allen; Theis Anderson; Rowland Bagnall; Tara Bergin; Emily Berry; Crispin Best; Paul Buck; Jen Calleja; Thomas A Clark; Laurie Clark; Esme Creed-Miles; Emily Critchley; Jake Elliott; Laura Elliott; SJ Fowler; Amy Key, Michael Kindellan; Caleb Klaces; Gareth Damian Martin; Robert Herbert McClean; Wayne Holloway-Smith; Kirstie Millar; Catrin Morgan; Richard Price; Leonie Rushforth; Rachel Snowdon; Rebecca Tama s; Ollie Tong; Kandace Siobhan Walker; Ahren Warner; Stephen Watts; Ralf Webb; Eley Williams; Alison Honey Woods; Madeleine Wurzburger; Edited by Jess Chandler; Designed by Theo Inglis; Cover design or artwork by Catrin Morgan
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The Liquid Land (Paperback)
Raphaela Edelbauer; Translated by Jen Calleja
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When her parents die in a car accident, highly talented Austrian
physicist Ruth Schwarz is confronted with a problem. Her parents'
will calls for them to be buried in their childhood home - but for
strangers, the village of Gross-Einland remains stubbornly hidden
from view. When Ruth finally finds her way there, she makes a
disturbing discovery: beneath the town lies a vast cavern that
exerts a strange control over the lives of the villagers. There are
hidden clues about the hole everywhere, but nobody wants to talk
about it - not even when it becomes clear that the stability of the
entire town is in jeopardy. In the literary tradition of Thomas
Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek, Raphaela Edelbauer's tale of trauma
and history weaves an opaque dream fabric that is frighteningly
true to life, and in the process she turns us towards the abject
horror that lies beneath repressed memory. The Liquid Land is a
dangerous novel, at once glittering nightmare and dark reality,
from an extraordinary new voice.
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The Liquid Land (Paperback)
Raphaela Edelbauer; Translated by Jen Calleja
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The Pine Islands (Paperback)
Marion Poschmann; Translated by Jen Calleja
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 AN
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER When Gilbert wakes one day from a dream
that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately and
inexplicably - for Tokyo, where he meets a fellow lost soul: Yosa,
a young Japanese student clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of
Suicide. Together, Gilbert and Yosa set off on a pilgrimage to see
the pine islands of Matsushima, one looking for the perfect end to
his life, the other for a fresh start. Playful and profound, The
Pine Islands is a beautiful tale of friendship, transformation and
acceptance in modern Japan.
A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent
father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting
debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck. A child attacks
Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping. In retaliation
Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window,
packs the damaged body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels.
Thus starts Steinbeck's unusual, poetic novella about a young
woman's transition from childhood to adulthood.
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Nicotine (Paperback)
Gregor Hens; Translated by Jen Calleja
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Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life
of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial
last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from
a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of
nicotine on thought and patterns of behaviours. He extends the
conversation with other smokers to meditations on Mark Twain and
Italo Svevo, the nature of habit, the validity of hypnosis, and the
most insignificant city in the United States, where he lived for
far too long. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens
deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant
disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction.
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