The Penguin book of the contemporary British short story
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The Penguin book of the contemporary British short story
（Penguin books）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin, 2019, c2018
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"An Alle Lane book"--P. [4] of cover
Contents of Works
- Love: Spared / A.L. Kennedy
- Funny little snake / Tessa Hadley
- Come rain or come shine / Kazuo Ishiguro
- Physics and chemistry / Jackie Kay
- Remember this / Graham Swift
- Dangers / Jane Gardam
- Story: The universal story / Ali Smith
- Troll bridge / Neil Gaiman
- The unknown known / Martin Amis
- Entry taken from a medical encyclopaedia / China Miéville
- Winter luxury pie / Peter Hobbs
- Men: All the boys / Thomas Morris
- A nice bucket / David Rose
- Chapter 2 (from All that man is) / David Szalay
- Catholic guilt (You know you love it) / Irvine Welsh
- Women: Poison / Lucy Caldwell
- The closing door / Rose Tremain
- If a book is locked there's probably a good reason for that, don't you think / Helen Oyeyemi
- The woman who lived in a restaurant / Leone Ross
- Every third thought / Helen Simpson
- War & politics: Moonlit landscape with bridge / Zadie Smith
- The rock of crack as big as the Ritz / Will Self
- The fall of Mr and Mrs Nicholson / Gerard Woodward
- Justice for one / James Kelman
- Catastrophic worlds: Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, derelict / Lucy Wood
- The clean slate / Hilary Mantel
- Fears and confessions of an ortolan chef / Eley Williams
- Later, his ghost / Sarah Hall
- The pier falls / Mark Haddon
- Envoi: North Sea crossing / Helen Dunmore
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year' Sunday Times
A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years
We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.
Includes short stories by A.L. Kennedy, Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Graham Swift, Jane Gardam, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, China Mieville, Peter Hobbs, Thomas Morris, David Rose, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Lucy Caldwell, Rose Tremain, Helen Oyeyemi, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Will Self, Gerard Woodward, James Kelman, Lucy Wood, Hilary Mantel, Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore.
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