Jolts by Fernando Sdriggoti
–Reviewed by Trahearne Falvey– A few pages into ‘A Barbecue and an Exhumation in Victoria Park Village’, the centrepiece of
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Birds with Horse Hearts by Eleanor Walsh
–Reviewed by Cath Barton– In Eleanor Walsh’s story of three women’s push and pull with life, with the men who
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Demise of the Undertaker’s Wife by Anne Walsh Donnelly
–Reviewed by Sally Shaw– Demise of the Undertaker’s Wife (The Blue Nib, 2019) is a collection of twelve short stories
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Endland by Tim Etchells
–Reviewed by Trahearne Falvey– Performance artist Tim Etchells’ Endland (published by And Other Stories) brings together recent stories with pieces
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The Dressing-Up Box by David Constantine
–Reviewed by Markku Nivalainen– David Constantine is a poet-scholar who has had an illustrious career as an author, translator and
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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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Our Dreams Might Align by Dena Diehl
-Reviewed by Mikiko Fukuda- Dana Diehl’s short story collection, Our Dreams Might Align (Splice), is an homage to the loneliness
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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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Flare and Falter by Michael Conley
-Reviewed by Sam Edwards- The best albums have recurring refrains and themes. In Abbey Road the refrain of “You Never
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The Portswick Imp Collected Stories: 2001 – 2016 by Michael W. Thomas
-Reviewed by Sally Shaw- The Portswick Imp (Black Pear Press), is a collection of fifteen short stories by internationally known
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