Dipika Mummery – Sabotage

Table Manners book cover featuring illustrations of a tomato, a lemon, knives and forks

Table Manners by Susmita Bhattacharya

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Phil Olsen Best Short Story Collection, Dahlia Press, Dipika Mummery, Saboteur Awards 2019, Susmita Bhattacharya

–Reviewed by Dipika Mummery– Winner of the 2019 Saboteur Award for best short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Press) by

Collection Short Stories

Exercises in Control by Annabel Banks

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Phil Olsen Annabel Banks, Dipika Mummery, indie publishers, Influx Press

–Reviewed by Dipika Mummery– If you’re in the mood for short slices of dark fiction that peek into the often

Anthology Short Stories Translation

Palestine + 100 edited by Bhasma Ghalayini

March 20, 2020April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Abdalmuti, Bhasma Ghalayini, Comma Press, Dipika Mummery, Emad El-Din Aysha, Mazen Maarouf, Saleem Haddad, science fiction, Selma Dabbagh, translation

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- Those of us who love science fiction are probably well used to stories imagining what many

Collection Short Stories

This Paradise by Ruby Cowling

February 29, 2020December 1, 2020 Phil Olsen Boiler House Press, Dipika Mummery, Ruby Cowling

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- This Paradise (Boiler House Press) is an excellent collection of unsettling, inventive and hard-to-categorise short stories

Novella

The Plankton Collector by Cath Barton

November 7, 2019April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Cath Barton, Dipika Mummery, New Welsh Rarebyte, New Welsh Review

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- What if the grieving process could be alleviated by a kind stranger who somehow manages to

Collection Short Stories

Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela

August 30, 2019April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Dipika Mummery, Edge Hill Prize, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019, Edge Hill short Story Prize Longlist, Leila Aboulela, SAQI, Sudan, Sudanese, Telegram, Telegram/SAQI

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- What is it really like to move across geographical and cultural borders in a way that

Anthology Short Stories Translation

Refugee Tales III as told to Monica Ali, Patrick Gale, Bernardine Evaristo and more

August 20, 2019April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Abdulrazak Gurnah, asylum seekers, Bernardine Evaristo, Comma Press, David Constantine, David Herd, Dipika Mummery, Emma Parsons, Gillian Slovo, Ian Sansom, Jonathan Skinner, Jonathan Wittenberg, Lisa Appignanesi, Lytton Smith, Monica Ali, Patrick Gale, Refugee Tales, Refugees, Roma Tearne

-Reviewed by Dipika Mummery- It may no longer dominate the headlines, but the refugee crisis is still very much real

Memoir Novella Translation

You Would Have Missed Me by Birgit Vanderbeke

July 24, 2019April 6, 2020 Phil Olsen Birgit Vanderbeke, Dipika Mummery, German, Jamie Bulloch, Refugee

– Reviewed by Dipika Mummery – Birgit Vanderbeke’s You Would Have Missed Me (Peirene Press), translated from the original German by