The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year

invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims...

Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes b...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year. Best British Short...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL ...

This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, ...

'It's a brilliant novel, I think, so sharply observed and so even handed in its treatment of the ...

Shortlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024 A plane crashes. A boy drowns. A body is fou...

Longlisted for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024 The countryside - what is it for? A paradise ...

The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his ...

A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison an...

A debut collection of weird tales from Will Wiles, the award-winning author of

1995. Sixteen years since a tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. The '...

is Zoë Apostolides's debut novel. Quietly disturbing, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-...

Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016 Finalist for The People's Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted ...

It is a foggy day. Ruby Grummett, a railway crossing keeper, opens the gates for a council lorry,...

All is not what it seems in this gripping novel about two sisters' lives: one who leaves her secu...

The 5th novel in the crime series featuring DI Yates, set in South Lincolnshire. When 18 year old...

Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable pol...

A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husband's sudden death; a ...

Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, ...

Siberia 1833.

A disillusioned, drug-soaked intellectual is escaping 'The Heat' - both literal and metaphorical ...

'I know you and this place. You're like a hefted sheep. If you come in, you'll never leave.' At h...

An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet...

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When Laura Cameron, a philosophy professor at a London university, is found dead in a bizarre ech...

From the author of

(¿¿¿¿¿¿) is Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana's thrilling second collection and is the sequel to Salt be...

A comparative account of the musical and cultural acts of Zappa and his cohort, collaborator and ...

Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed met...

Poetry Wars describes the battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s between radicals...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year. 'Best British Sh...

'The Salt Companion to Carter Revard' is a groundbreaking collection of essays on the work of Osa...

Victor E. Wunderlich, Geschichtsprofessor, sitzt (wortwörtlich!) jahrelang ahnungslos auf dem let...

Sometimes the most unexpected thing is joy.At forty-five, Sarah Gormley left her corporate career...

Molly Jones and The Homeplace

Think a delicious, affordable, and stress-free gluten-free life is impossible? Think again.When S...

Waking up dead was not on 86-year-old Minerva Mae Carmine's bingo card. After a routine colonosco...

Waking up dead was not on 86-year-old Minerva Mae Carmine's bingo card. After a routine colonosco...

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover ‿ or more accurately, by it...

Fiction Category Winner in the 2022 East Anglian Book Awards Some of the characters in Stewkey Bl...

Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home t...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year. Best British Sh...

A lost girl and a sprawling map of an unsettling city. Wren Lithgow has followed her concert pian...

Book of the Week: The Idler

This companion forms the best introduction to the work of one of Britain's leading experimental w...

In the Land of the Flibbertigibbets is a collection of playful poems and versatile verses bound t...