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

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

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

432 pages • first pub 2018 (view 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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