Tag: short stories

Hieroglyphics

This selection of short stories is like a lovely box of chocolates as each tale excites the imagination but is finished all too soon.

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Book of the Month – Lantern Slides

This is a great book to dip in and out of, ideal for reading on trains or in coffee shops, and a perfect introduction to Edna O’Brien’s beautiful writing.

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Book of the month – Runaway by Alice Munro

Runaway is a mediation on a variety of themes, most obvious being that of flight or escape. Her characters flee in a variety of ways – successfully, unsuccessfully, with large rebellion and small. Munro perfectly captures small town life in all its difficulties and beauty.

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The Summer House, Later

Every short story in Judith Hermann’s collection The Summer House, Later will leave you with a large range of emotions: melancholy, surprise, and also loneliness. It is almost impossible to just read this book, put it away and go on.

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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

If you thought Sylvia Plath was just poetry and The Bell Jar, think again and investigate this collection.

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The View from Castle Rock

An astonishing and poignant book that will resonate with all those of us with migrant ancestors.

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