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London Lies

Urban Tales from Liars' League

by Alan McCormick, David Bausor, David Mildon, Emily Cleaver, Emily Pedder, Harry Whitehead, James Smyth, Jason Jackson, Joan Taylor-Rowan, Laura Martz, Laura Williams, Liam Hogan, Martin Pengelly, Nicol Wilmor, Rosalind Stopps, Simon Hodgson, Clare Sandling ...

Moving from 1930s Camden to a Royal Wedding "riot", via football fights, office steeplechases and awkward dates in art galleries, London Lies is a bizarre, funny, moving and sometimes unnerving glimpse into the secret life of the city we all love and know.Featuring nineteen writers and twenty-three stories showcased at award-winning monthly live literature event, London's Liars' League. ... Read more

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Moving from 1930s Camden to a Royal Wedding "riot", via football fights, office steeplechases and awkward dates in art galleries, London Lies is a bizarre, funny, moving and sometimes unnerving glimpse into the secret life of the city we all love and know.Featuring nineteen writers and twenty-three stories showcased at award-winning monthly live literature event, London's Liars' League.
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Best British Short Stories 2015

by Rebecca Swirsky, Matthew Sperling, Joanna Walsh, Jenn Ashworth, Tamar Hodes, Bee Lewis, Uschi Gatward, Emma Cleary, Jim Hinks, Jonathan Gibbs, Neil Campbell, Hilary Mantel, Alan McCormick, Alison Moore, Helen Marshall, Julianne Pachico, Helen Simpson, Charles Wilkinson, Nicholas Royle, K. J. Orr, Tracey S. Rosenberg ...

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"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …"Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief ... Read more

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"Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …"Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief
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The Best British Short Stories 2014

by Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison ...

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'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's ... Read more

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'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's
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At My Mother's Knee...

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Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long ... Read more

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Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long
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Alan Partridge: Nomad

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Vanished Years

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Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is - of course - one of a kind.Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, this new memoir is filled with stories, from childhood to the ... Read more

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The CWA Short Story Anthology: Mystery Tour

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Travel the globe with this breath-taking collection of short stories from the Crime Writer's Association … perfectly chilling one-sitting reads…'The diverse storytelling styles and takes on familiar genre tropes add up to an entertaining buffet for mystery fans' Publishers Weekly____________________Crime spreads across the globe in this new collection of short stories from the Crime Writer's ... Read more

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Travel the globe with this breath-taking collection of short stories from the Crime Writer's Association … perfectly chilling one-sitting reads…'The diverse storytelling styles and takes on familiar genre tropes add up to an entertaining buffet for mystery fans' Publishers Weekly____________________Crime spreads across the globe in this new collection of short stories from the Crime Writer's
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The Queen of Bloody Everything

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Joanna Nadin's first novel for adults, The Queen of Bloody Everything, is about mothers, daughters and how we can make many choices in life but can't choose where we come from.As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything.That was the day Dido – aged exactly six years and twenty ... Read more

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Northanger Abbey: free sampler

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A sample of queen of crime, Val McDermid’s modern re-telling of the Austen classic. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey.Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat’s wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure ... Read more

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All the Beloved Ghosts

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**FINALIST FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short StoryHovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures.**In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new coat to a ... Read more

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**FINALIST FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short StoryHovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures.**In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new coat to a
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