short stories

Today would have been Vasily Grossman’s birthday and in honour of the occasion, I am trying to fit in a few chapters…

This is a busy time of year, as noted in my last review, and when reading time is short, I often turn…

Being up to your ears in work is nothing to complain about, unless it cuts into the reading and writing time too…

A few years ago, I realised that my natural interest in books written in England in the 1920s and 30s was leading…

I loved Fernando Sdrigotti’s short story Jolts when it appeared in 3am Magazine in 2015. Now five years have whipped by and…

If even the title of my last post – 10 long books to read on lockdown – was enough to make you…

In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of…