title: The Best British Short Stories 2011
author:  Nicholas Royle 
description: The collection illustrates just how vibrant and varied the UK short story writing scene is ... each is well crafted and there's much breadth in terms of style, tone and theme - running from love to war and covering everything in between.--Sarah-Clare Conlon "Bookmunch "<br /><br />Slip this lightweight but nourishing anthology into your holiday bag. Editor Royle has selected 20 published stories from British writers. His own (excellent) taste means that little explosions of weirdness or transcendence often erupt amid much well-observed everyday life.--Boyd Tonkin "The Independent "<br /><br />It's so good that it's hard to believe that there was no equivalent during the 17 years since Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best English Short Stories ceased publication in 1994. The first selection makes a very good beginning Highly Recommended.--Kate Saunders "The Times "
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  BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2019
  
  
  edited by
  
  
  NICHOLAS ROYLE
  
  
  
  
  
  SYNOPSIS
  
  
  
  
  
  The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth 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 is wide ranging, covering
  anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the
  best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.
  
  
  
  
  
  Featuring stories by: Julia Armfield, Elizabeth Baines, Naomi Booth, Kieran
  Devaney, Vicky Grut, Nigel Humphreys, Sally Jubb, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Robert
  Mason, Ann Quin, Sam Thompson, Melissa Wan and Ren Watson.
  
  
  
  
  
  PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS WORK
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Salt’s ‘Best British’ series reflects who we are; the state we are in.
  Britain’s mo