We Were Strangers: Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures

Nicholas Royle

Jessie Greengrass

Sophie Mackintosh

Eley Williams

David Gaffney

Toby Litt

Anne Billson

Jenn Ashworth

VARIOUS

Zoe Lambert

Louise Marr

Confingo Publishing

The twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world. 
There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance. 
Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic. 
Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself. 
Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.

An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It: A John Murray Original

JM Originals

Account of the Decline of the Great Auk According to One Wh

An Account Of The Decline Of Great Auk

Literature & Fiction

Literary

John Murray Publishers

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'A stunning debut' Guardian It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it . . . In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray and his production of an image of his wife's hand; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; John Hunter's attempts to set surgery on a scientific footing and his work, as a collaborator with his brother William and the artist Jan van Rymsdyk, on the an

Sight

John Murray

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019'A stunning debut' GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.

Contemporary

Reverse Engineering

Jon McGregor

Sarah Hall

JOSEPH O'NEILL

Chris Power

Irenosen Okojie

Mahreen Sohail

Short Stories & Anthologies

Scratch Books

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new 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: Claire-Louise Bennett, Neil Campbell, Crista Ermiya, Stuart Evers, Trevor Fevin, David Gaffney, Janice Galloway, Jessie Greengrass, Kate Hendry, Thomas Mcmullan, Graham Mort, Ian Parkinson, Tony Peake, Alex Preston, Leone Ross, John Saul, Colette Sensier, Robert Sheppard, DJ Taylor, Greg Thorpe and Mark Valentine.

Best British Short Stories

JOHN SAUL

Leone Ross

Neil, Campbell

Mark Valentine

D.J. TAYLOR

Alex Preston

Ian Parkinson

Robert Sheppard

Trevor Fevin

Colette Sensier

Greg Thorpe

Crista Ermiya

Salt Publishing

The High House

Swift Press

Bakış (Turkish Edition)

Genre Fiction

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