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Best British Short Stories 2024 - cover

Best British Short Stories 2024

Nicholas Royle

Publisher: Salt

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Summary

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth year
Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.
Best British Short Stories 2024 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2023 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.
'If the latest iteration of Salt's Best British Short Stories collection is anything to go by then the genre remains in safe hands.' —Lawrence Foley, TLS
Available since: 11/15/2024.
Print length: 224 pages.

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