Best British Short Stories 2023

SALT PUBLISHING 2022

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of —

Nicholas Royle:  https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ 

Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ 

Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/best-british-short-stories-2011-2022-edited-by-nicholas-royle-as-as-linked-and-listed-to-my-real-time-reviews-of-them/

Stories: Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, DJ Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine and David Wheldon.

When I read the stories, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Best British Short Stories 2022

SALT PUBLISHING 2022

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of Nicholas Royle:  https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/

Stories by MONA DASH, SARA SHERWOOD, EDWARD HOGAN, ROSANNA HILDYARD, USCHI GATWARD, TONY WHITE, MAX PORTER, BEN PESTER, ALICE M, SONYA MOOR, DAVID FRANKEL, LEON CRAIG, NEIL CAMPBELL, RZ BASCHIR, CHRISTOPHER BURNS, PAUL MCQUADE, SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE, WILL WILES, CHRIS VAUGHAN, SOPHIE MACKINTOSH.

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Best British Short Stories 2021

SALT PUBLISHING 2021

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of Nicholas Royle:  https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/

Stories by Tom Bromley, Yasmine Lever, Meave Haughey, Simon Okotie, AJ Ashworth, Uschi Gatward, Emma Bolland, Gary Budden, Mel Pryor, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Julia Armfield, Roberta Dewa, John Foxx, Jen Calleja, Douglas Thompson, Isha Karki, Matthew Turner, Josephine Galvin, Iphgenia Baal.

For anyone interested in modern short stories, I would be grateful if they could please mention to others my endless journey into the stories of Elizabeth Bowen whom I consider to be the greatest experimental and traditional pioneer of these. I don’t think any reviewer has travelled such a public journey before, with amazing discoveries along the way, including her many elBOWs! This includes her collected, uncollected and once previously unpublished stories. I am currently about two shadowy thirds through this literary adventure, and it started here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/10/05/the-collected-stories-of-elizabeth-bowen/

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Best British Short Stories 2020

Edited by Nicholas Royle

My previous reviews of Nicholas Royle: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/ Salt Publishing: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ Best British Short Stories: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/

Stories by Luke Brown, Irenosen Okojie, David Constantine, Zakia Uddin, Richard Lawrence Bennett, Nicola Freeman, Amanthi Harris, Andrew Hook, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Schofield, Sonia Hope, Jeff Noon, Bridget Penney, Stephen Thompson, KJ Orr, Diana Powell, David Rose, NJ Stallard, Tim Etchells, Adrian Slatcher, Helen Mort, Robert Stone.

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Best British Short Stories 2019

SALT PUBLISHING 2019

Series Editor: Nicholas Royle

My previous Best British Short Stories reviews here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/best-british-short-stories/, of this publisher here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salt-publishing/ and of this editor here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/

Includes stories by Melissa Wan, Stephen Sharp, Sally Jubb, Sam Thompson, Ann Quin, Nigel Humphreys, Adam Welch, Vesna Main, John Lanchester, Vicky Grut, Naomi Booth, Julia Armfield, Robert Mason, Elizabeth Baines, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Ruby Cowling, Ren Watson, Paul McQuade, Kieran Devaney, Sophie Mackintosh.

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Best British Short Stories, Nicholas Royle editor, Salt Publishing.

Best British Short Stories 2018

Series editor NICHOLAS ROYLE
(My previous reviews of this writer are linked from HERE)

SALT PUBLISHING
(My previous reviews of this publisher are HERE)

Stories by Colette de Curzon, Adam O’Riordan, Jane McLaughlin, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Alison MacLeod, Adrian Slatcher, M John Harrison, Jo Mazelis, Conrad Williams, Kelly Creighton, Wyl Menmuir, Owen Booth, Tania Hershman, Mike Fox, Brian Howell, CD Rose, Chloe Turner, Eley Williams, Lisa Tuttle, Ian Robinson.

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Best British Short Stories 2011

Series editor NICHOLAS ROYLE
(My previous reviews of this writer are linked from HERE)

SALT PUBLISHING
(My previous reviews of this publisher are HERE)

Featuring stories by: David Rose, Hilary Mantel, Lee Rourke, Leone Ross, Claire Massey, Christopher Burns, Adam Marek, SJ Butler, Heather Leach, Alan Beard, Kirsty Logan, Philip Langeskov, Bernie McGill, John Burnside, Robert Edric, Michèle Roberts, Dai Vaughan, Alison Moore and Salley Vickers.

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Best British Short Stories 2012

Series editor NICHOLAS ROYLE
(My previous reviews of this writer are linked from HERE)

SALT PUBLISHING
(My previous reviews of this publisher are HERE)

Featuring stories by: Socrates Adams, AK Benedict, Neil Campbell, Ramsey Campbell, Stella Duffy, Julian Gough, Joel Lane, Stuart Evers, Will Self, Michael Marshall Smith, Alison MacLeod, Dan Powell, Jo Lloyd, HP Tinker, Robert Shearman, Jaki McCarrick, Jonathan Trigell, Emma Jane Unsworth, Jeanette Winterson.

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Best British Short Stories 2013

Series editor NICHOLAS ROYLE
(My previous reviews of this writer are linked from HERE)

SALT PUBLISHING
(My previous reviews of this publisher are HERE)

Featuring stories by: Charles Boyle, Regi Claire, Laura Del-Rivo, Lesley Glaister, MJ Hyland, Jackie Kay, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Adam Lively, Anneliese Mackintosh, Adam Marek, Alison Moore, Alex Preston, Ross Raisin, David Rose, Ellis Sharp, Robert Shearman, Nikesh Shukla, James Wall and Guy Ware.

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