The Existential Detective

Thompson, Alice

Literature & Fiction

Salt Publishing

The Bitter Sixteen (the Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)

Mohamed, Stefan

'Fleshing out the shadowy metaphysical hints of Beckett's novels, this intellectual romp is the best debut I have read in years' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian Monday lunchtime: a bank is being robbed. The gunmen tell everyone to get down on the floor, but an old man refuses. Behind him in the queue is Rada Kalenkova, an investigator for the Office of Assessment, recording everything she sees. Shots are fired and a woman is killed. Or maybe two. But Rada ignores the murders and pursues the old man instead. Nothing about the robbery or the putative killings makes sense. The robbers might be police. The bank manager denies anyone was hurt, despite the blood on the walls. Every subsequent enquiry leads towards Edward Likker, a renowned fixer. But Likker is dead. The Fat of Fed Beasts is an ambitious literary mix of existential uncertainty, murder, bureaucracy, unreliable father figures and disaffected policemen. It asks why we do what we do, whether it matters, and what, if anything, our lives are worth. And it's funny. 'Ware has an uncluttered prose style and a willingness to stretch the boundaries of fiction. His sensibility is finely tuned to those grey areas of experience where identities shift, where people forget who they really are. No other writer springs to mind as a ready comparison to Ware: already he has defined a unique thematic territory.' Aiden O'Reilly, The Short Review

The Fat Of Fed Beasts (Salt Modern Fiction)

Guy Ware

Literary

Visiting Thailand to marry a sex worker, Raymond is informed that his father's body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. While his bride embarks on a career in the Dutch and German porn industries, Raymond moves into the villa with the intention of renovating the property. Life by the sea, however, does not go according to plan. The Beginning of the End marks the arrival of a bold new talent.

The Beginning Of The End

Ian Parkinson

Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth 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. Authors include Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Jenn Ashworth, Helen Simpson, Charles Wilkinson, Rebecca Swirsky, Matthew Sperling, Julianne Pachico, KJ Orr, Bee Lewis, Uschi Gatward, Emma Cleary and Neil Campbell.

The Best British Short Stories

Nicholas Royle

<p>Nominated for a British Fantasy Award 2016: Best Anthology The Home of Horror British Fantasy Award winning editor Johnny Mains ferries Salt's Best series into the dankest recesses of horror with tales written by the UK's top ghouls. 'His own face, reflected in the smoked glass of the kitchen cabinet, looked about a hundred years old ...' - The Third Time, Helen Grant '...used his straw to drink up the rest of the redness, which he found more delicious than milkshake ...' - Alistair, Mark Samuels 'It was maybe a little strange to cast an English actor as a serial killer from the backwoods of Kentucky, but everyone knew the Brits were good at playing evil ...' - Something Sinister In Sunlight, Lisa Tuttle 'Other methods included cutting all the legs off first, then finally the head. This could only be attempted with the more ratty dogs ...' - Dog, Reece Shearsmith With stories from: Steven J. Dines, Helen Grant, Christopher Harman, Andrew Hook, Jane Jakeman, Graham Joyce, Stephen Laws, Alison Littlewood, Rebecca Lloyd, Helen Marshall, Gary McMahon, Alison Moore, Rosalie Parker, Sara Pascoe, John Llewellyn Probert, R.B. Russell, Mark Samuels, Priya Sharma, Reece Shearsmith, Lisa Tuttle, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Conrad Williams 'Johnny Mains is an admirable figure, the Herbert van Thal of our age' - The Independent 'Mains' knowledge of fantastical fiction is enormous' - Robin Ince 'Mains is the Minister For Horror' - Charlie Higson</p>

Best British Horror

Helen Grant

Alison Littlewood

Helen Marshall

Gary McMahon

Rosalie Parker

Alison Moore

Graham, Joyce

Stephen Laws

Jane Jakeman

Rebecca Lloyd

Andrew Hook

Sara Pascoe

Steven J. Dines

Christopher Harman

Genre Fiction

Justine

<p>The Art of Keeping Quiet is the first anthology in English translation by Rodolfo Alonso, one of today's most renowned Argentine poets. As early as 1956, Raúl Gustavo Aguirre noted in Alonso "a surprising verbal command, where the conquests of modern poetry meld into the terrain of language, while still respecting the structure and spirit of quotidian expression." Fifty years later, Juan Gelman praised "this crystalline voice that has celebrated existence, giving its expression an essential structure like an expanding spiral. Beauty turns these poems into music; they're engraved with a formal, imaginative, and conceptual rigor that is exceptional." Alonso's poetry is, in short, a radical questioning of solipsism, an exemplary search for the other. A poetry aware of itself, its reaches and limits, always seeking to be reinvented. A poetry that serenely unites aesthetic commitment and the social vanguard.</p>

The Art of Keeping Quiet

Alonso, Rodolfo

Poetry

The Black Country

Contemporary

Used to Be (UK)

Baines, Elizabeth

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