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FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2011/
Flora: DAVID ROSE
Winter Break: HILARY MANTEL
Emergency Exit: LEE ROURKE
Love Silk Food: LEONE ROSS
Feather Girls: CLAIRE MASSEY
Foreigner: CHRISTOPHER BURNS
Dinner of the Dead Alumni: ADAM MAREK
The Swimmer: SJ BUTLER
So Much Time in a Life: HEATHER LEACH
Staff Development: ALAN BEARD
The Rental Heart: KIRSTY LOGAN
Notes on a Love Story: PHILIP LANGESKOV
No Angel: BERNIE MCGILL
Slut’s Hair: JOHN BURNSIDE
Comma: HILARY MANTEL
Moving Day: ROBERT EDRIC
Tristram and Isolde: MICHÈLE ROBERTS
Looted: DAI VAUGHAN
When the Door Closed, It Was Dark: ALISON MOORE
Epiphany: SALLEY VICKERS
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SECOND LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2012/
I Arrive First: EMMA JANE UNSWORTH
The Dark Space in the House in the House in the Garden at the Centre of the World: ROBERT SHEARMAN
What’s in Swindon?: STUART EVERS
Alice in Time & Space and Various Major Cities: HP TINKER
The Visit: JAKI McCARRICK
Half-mown Lawn: DAN POWELL
‘I’m the Guy Who Wrote The Wild Bunch’: JULIAN GOUGH
Those Who Remember: JOEL LANE
To Brixton Beach: STELLA DUFFY
Wide and Deep: SOCRATES ADAMS
Tarnished Sorry Open: JO LLOYD
Aperitifs With Mr Hemingway: JONATHAN TRIGELL
Sun on Prospect Street: NEIL CAMPBELL
The Room Beyond: RAMSEY CAMPBELL
iAnna: WILL SELF
The Heart of Denis Noble: ALISON MacLEOD
We Wave and Call: JON McGREGOR
All I Know About Gertrude Stein: JEANETTE WINTERSON
Sad, Dark Thing: MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
The Last Library: AK BENEDICT
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THIRD LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2013/
The Smell of the Slaughterhouse: ALISON MOORE
The Writer: ELLIS SHARP
The Stormchasers: ADAM MAREK
Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon: JACKIE KAY
When You Grow into Yourself: ROSS RAISIN
J Krissman in the Park: LAURA DEL-RIVO
The Swimmer in the Desert: ALEX PRESTON
Voyage: ADAM LIVELY
Curtains: CHARLES LAMBERT
Doctors: ANNELIESE MACKINTOSH
Bedtime Stories For Yasmin: ROBERT SHEARMAN
Canute: Nikesh Shukla
Dancing to Nat King Cole: JAMES WALL
My Wife the Hyena: NINA KILHAM
Budapest: CHARLES BOYD
Just Watch Me: LESLEY GLAISTER
Hostage: GUY WARE
Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes: MJ HYLAND
The Tasting: REGI CLAIRE
Eleanor – The End Notes: DAVID ROSE
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FOURTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2014/
The Faber Book of Adultery: JONATHAN GIBBS
The Spiral Stairwell: JAY GRIFFITHS
The Incalculable Weight of Water: RICHARD KNIGHT
Ladies’ Day: VICKI JARRETT
Getting Out Of There: M. JOHN HARRISON
Hospital Field: SIÂN MELANGELL DAFYDD
Roof Space: DAVID GRUBB
Number Three: ANNA METCALFE
Ashton and Elaine: DAVID CONSTANTINE
The Jewel Of The Orient: LOUISE PALFREYMAN
What’s Going On Outside?: STUART EVERS
Tides, Or How Stories Do Or Don’t Get Told: ELIZABETH BAINES
The Sea In Birmingham: MICK SCULLY
Hope Fades For The Hostages: AILSA COX
Unfinished Business by CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
Femme Maison: JOANNA WALSH
It: ADAM WILMINGTON
Glass, Bricks, Dust: CLAIRE DEAN
Guests: JOANNE RUSH
Barcelona: PHILIP LANGESKOV
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FIFTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2015/
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher August 6th 1983: HILARY MANTEL
Lucky: JULIANNE PACHICO
The Iron Men: BEE LEWIS
Festschrift: JONATHAN GIBBS
Five Thousand Lads a Year: JENN ASHWORTH
LS Lowry/ Man Lying on a Wall: NEIL CAMPBELL
Lightbox: EMMA CLEARY
Green Boots’ Cave: JIM HINKS
The Clinic: USCHI GATWARD
May the Bell Be Rung For Harriet: TRACEY S ROSENBERG
Strong Man: HELEN SIMPSON
Voice Over: MATTHEW SPERLING
The Lake Shore Limited: K J ORR
The First Day: TAMAR HODES
Go Wild in the Country: ALAN McCORMICK
Secondhand Magic: HELEN MARSHALL
Fresh Water: CHARLES WILKINSON
The Common People: REBECCA SWIRSKY
Worlds From the Word’s End: JOANNA WALSH
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SIXTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2016/
THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A RESTAURANT by Leone Ross
Arrivals: ROBERT SHEPPARD
VAIN SHADOWS FLEE by Mark Valentine
The Politics of Minor Resistance: JESSIE GREENGRASS
Walsingham: TREVOR FEVIN
A Belgian Story: IAN PARKINSON
Some Versions of Pastoral: DJ TAYLOR
Mrs Świętokrzyskie’s Castle: COLETTE SENSIER
A Leg to Stand On: NEIL CAMPBELL
Wyndham Le Strange Buys the School:ALEX PRESTON
Song of the River: JOHN SAUL
1961: GREG THORPE
1977: CRISTA ERMIYA
The Staring Man: DAVID GAFFNEY
The Bluebell Wood: TONY PEAKE
My Husband Wants to Talk to Me Again: KATE HENDRY
In Theory, Theories Exist: GRAHAM MORT
Control Knobs: CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT
The Only Thing Is Certain Is: THOMAS MCMULLAN
Live from the Palladium: STUART EVERS
Distance: JANICE GALLOWAY
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SEVENTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/best-british-short-stories-2017/
Reversible: COURTTIA NEWLAND
General Impression of Size and Shape: ROSALIND BROWN
As You Follow: GISELLE LEEB
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: JAY BARNETT
While the Nightjar Sleeps: ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY
The Sea in Me: KRISHAN COUPLAND
Safe: VESNA MAIN
The First Hard Rain: SOPHIE WELLSTOOD
Never Thought He’d Go: FRANÇOISE HARVEY
Reunion: PETER BRADSHAW
The Dark Instruments: LAURA POCOCK
Filamo: IRENOSEN OKOJIE
Treats: LARA WILLIAMS
The Wind Calling: DEIRDRE SHANAHAN
Ariel: DAVID ROSE
IS-AND by Claire Dean
This Skin Doesn’t Fit Me Any More: ELIOT NORTH
Words and Things to Sip: JAMES KELMAN
Waves: NIVEN GOVINDEN
Language: DAISY JOHNSON
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EIGHTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/best-british-short-stories-2018/
PAYMON’S TRIO by Colette de Curzon
A THUNDERSTORM IN SANTA MONICA by Adam O’Riordan
TRIO FOR FOUR VOICES by Jane McLaughlin
HOW TO BE AN ALCOHOLIC by William Thirsk-Gaskill
WE ARE METHODISTS by Alison MacLeod
LIFE GRABS by Adrian Slatcher
DOG PEOPLE by M. John Harrison
SKIN by Jo Mazelis
CWTCH by Conrad Williams
AND THREE THINGS BUMPED by Kelly Creighton
IN DARK PLACES by Wyl Menmuir
THE WAR by Owen Booth
AND WHAT IF ALL YOUR BLOOD RAN COLD by Tania Hershman
THE HOMING INSTINCT by Mike Fox
MASK by Brian Howell
SISTER by CD Rose
WAITING FOR THE RUNNERS by Chloe Turner
SWATCH by Eley Williams
THE LAST DARE by Lisa Tuttle
DAZZLE by Iain Robinson
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NINTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/best-british-short-stories-2019/
THE HUSBAND AND THE WIFE GO TO THE SEASIDE by Melissa Wan
CUTS by Stephen Sharp
THE ARRANGEMENT by Sally Jubb
THE HEIGHTS OF SLEEP by Sam Thompson
NUDE AND SEASCAPE by Ann Quin
BEYOND DEAD by Nigel Humphreys
TOXIC by Adam Welch
A HAIR CLASP by Vesna Main
REALITY by John Lanchester
ON THE WAY TO THE CHURCH by Vicky Grut
CLUSTER by Naomi Booth
SMACK by Julia Armfield
CURTILAGE by Robert Mason
KISS by Elizabeth Baines
BADGERFACE by Lucy McKnight Hardy
ON DAY 21 by Ruby Cowling
OPTICS by Ren Watson
A GIFT OF TONGUES by Paul McQuade
SITCOM by Kieran Devaney
NEW DAWN FADES by Sophie Mackintosh
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TENTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/best-british-short-stories-2020/
BEYOND CRITICISM by Luke Brown
NUDIBRANCH by Irenosen Okojie
THE PHONE CALL by David Constantine
VASHTI by Zakia Uddin
ENERGY THIEVES: FIVE DIALOGUES by Richard Lawrence Bennett
HALLOWEEN by Nicola Freeman
IN THE MOUNTAINS by Amanthi Harris
THE GIRL WITH THE HORIZONTAL WALK by Andrew Hook
SHE SAID HE SAID by Hanif Kureishi
SAFELY GATHERED IN by Sarah Schofield
BELLY by Sonia Hope
THE FURTHER DARK by Jeff Noon & Bridget Penney
SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT by Stephen Thompson.
BACKBONE by K.J. Orr
WHALE WATCHING by Diana Powell
GREETINGS FROM THE FAT MAN IN POSTCARDS by David Rose
THE WHITE CAT by NJ Stallard
MAXINE by Tim Etchells
DREAMS ARE CONTAGIOUS by Adrian Slatcher
WEANING by Helen Mort
PURITY by Robert Stone
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ELEVENTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/11/09/best-british-short-stories-2021/
RINGS by Tom Bromley
DEFINITELY NOT by Yasmine Lever
The Reservoir by Meave Haughey
BINDINGS by Simon Okotie
LEATHER by AJ Ashworth
BACKGAMMON by Uschi Gatward
AM / THOUGHT / ALWAYS by Emma Bolland
WHAT NEVER WAS by Gary Budden
MAMAN by Mel Pryor
THE RED SUITCASE by Hilaire
FROM FAR AROUND THEY SAW US BURN by Alice Jolly
WENDIGO by Julia Armfield
HIDE by Roberta Dewa
THE NEBULA by John Foxx
EDIT HISTORY by Jen Calleja
OUR FATHER THE SEA by Douglas Thompson
HAIR by Isha Karki
LOOM by Matthew Turner
GOING DOWNHILL by Josephine Galvin
99 CUSTOMER JOURNEY HORROR by Iphgenia Baal
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TWELFTH LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/best-british-short-stories-2022/
NEW TO IT ALL by Seán Padraic Birnie
MONA DASH: LET US LOOK ELSEWHERE
PEBBLES by Max Porter
NEIL CAMPBELL: CULVERTS
ALICE M: SARCOPHAGUS
BEN PESTER: SQUARE / RECESS / MOON
RZ BASCHIR: THE CHICKEN
SOPHIE MACKINTOSH: WILD CITY
TONY WHITE: PLAIN SPEAKING
WILL WILES: THE MEAT STREAM
PAUL MCQUADE: AN EASEMENT
CHRISTOPHER BURNS: A VISIT TO THE BONESETTER
DAVID FRANKEL: SINK RATE
CHICAGO FORECASTS: CHRIS VAUGHAN
LEON CRAIG: LICK THE DUST
SARA SHERWOOD: HOW YOU FIND YOURSELF
SONYA MOOR: THE COMET
ROSANNA HILDYARD: OFFCOMERS
USCHI GATWARD: LAMMAS
EDWARD HOGAN: SINGLE SIT
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Looking forward to the 2023 edition!
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