The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

Philip Hensher with Eley Williams, Ali Smith, Sarah Hall, Thomas Morris, Peter Hobbs, Gerard Woodward, Lucy Caldwell, Will Self, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Tessa Hadley, Helen Oyeyemi, Jane Gardam, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Rose Tremain, Graham Swift, Mark Haddon, Helen Dunmore, James Kelman, Neil Gaiman, Zadie Smith, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Martin Amis, China Miéville, David Rose, A.L. Kennedy, Lucy Wood, Jackie Kay

431 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of venues in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted many remarkable writers.Philip Hensher, following the grea...

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