The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

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Author: Philip Hensher

Format: Paperback / softback

Number of Pages: 432


A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.
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Author: Philip Hensher

Format: Paperback / softback

Number of Pages: 432


A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.