The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd
– Reviewed by Ruby Cowling – Jo Lloyd’s The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies (Swift Press, 2021) is an
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Table Manners by Susmita Bhattacharya
–Reviewed by Dipika Mummery– Winner of the 2019 Saboteur Award for best short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Press) by
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Exercises in Control by Annabel Banks
–Reviewed by Dipika Mummery– If you’re in the mood for short slices of dark fiction that peek into the often
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Cath Barton — Contributing Fiction Reviewer Cath Barton’s prize-winning novella The Plankton Collector (2018) is published by New Welsh Rarebyte and her second novella, In
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Palestine + 100 edited by Bhasma Ghalayini
-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- Those of us who love science fiction are probably well used to stories imagining what many
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This Paradise by Ruby Cowling
-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- This Paradise (Boiler House Press) is an excellent collection of unsettling, inventive and hard-to-categorise short stories
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The Plankton Collector by Cath Barton
-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- What if the grieving process could be alleviated by a kind stranger who somehow manages to
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Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela
-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- What is it really like to move across geographical and cultural borders in a way that
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Refugee Tales III as told to Monica Ali, Patrick Gale, Bernardine Evaristo and more
-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- It may no longer dominate the headlines, but the refugee crisis is still very much real
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You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke
– Reviewed by Dipika Mummery – Birgit Vanderbeke’s You Would Have Missed Me (Peirene Press), translated from the original German by
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