- Paperback: 164 pages
- Publisher: Pretend Genius Press (1 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0977852636
- ISBN-13: 978-0977852635
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,376,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A while back, when I was going through a bit of a tough time, this guy I knew, Paul, bought himself a restaurant, and when it was still pretty new and he'd spent all his money on forks and skewers and real people who knew how to run a restaurant, he asked if I would help out, and I said yes because I didn't have a job and I didn't seem to be capable of getting a job and I didn't have a clue how to get myself out of the hole I'd fallen into." (The opening sentence of Work by Jo Lloyd). Celebrate the miracle of wonderful fiction with the best new short stories of the year from Jenny Barden, Claudia Boers, Ben Cheetham, Carys Davies, Carol Farrelly, Nick Holdstock, Jo Lloyd, Margot Taylor, Jill Widner and Morowa Yejidé as selected by editor Stephen Moran and adjudicator Rana Dasgupta from over 600 submitted to the Willesden Herald.
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The Willesden Herald Short story prize is obviously one of the stronger competitions out there because there are no obviously weak selections in this anthology. Carys Davies effortlessly takes the reader from Birmingham to Siberia in a single paragraph in "The Travellers" and Jo Lloyd's tale "Work" encapsulates the daily grind of lowly kitchen hand - although very little happens and I completely forgot about the story ten minutes after reading it. "The Hate Gang", Ben Cheetham's tale of a child gang's prank gone wrong is touching and the others are all pretty well written.
My only gripe is that it contains - as does every single prize anthology I've ever read - a couple of stories featuring suicide and trerminal illness. Yawn!
Oh, and it's the dullest cover I've ever seen on a book.
Recommended if you're a keen reader of short stories.
My only gripe is that it contains - as does every single prize anthology I've ever read - a couple of stories featuring suicide and trerminal illness. Yawn!
Oh, and it's the dullest cover I've ever seen on a book.
Recommended if you're a keen reader of short stories.
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