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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The False River by Nick Holdstock
-Reviewed by Kristin D. Urban- If you feel unsettled while reading The False River (Unthank Books), then Nick Holdstock has
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Calls to Distant Places by Peter Jordan
-Reviewed by Sally Shaw- Calls to Distant Places (Kingston University Press) is the debut short story collection of author and
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Midnight Laughter by Paul McDonald
-Reviewed by Rhys Knapman- Midnight Laughter is a collection of short stories by Paul McDonald, published by V. Press in
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the everrumble by Michelle Elvy
-Reviewed by Cath Barton- Zettie, at the age of seven, stops speaking. Her mother tries to find out why, but
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