THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE CONTEMPORARY BRITISH SHORT STORY

A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty yearsWe 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. Includes short stories by A.L.