Buy two short story collections and get the third one for free! From this years Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology, to the ground breaking collection Queer Square Mile to Joshua Jones' Local Fires, we have a whole treasure trove of collections to choose from! So we've put together a list of just a few recommendations from this year and more.
Don't forget to make use of this fantastic offer (just use code ADVENT10) ending on 13/12/24.
Untethered - Philippa Holloway
Dead birds fall from the sky, an octopus lies stranded on a beach, and a lost shoe becomes a public shrine ... Untethered, Philippa Holloway’s first collection of short stories, provides an unflinching glimpse of daily life interrupted by unexpected events. Small intrusions into familiar spaces reveal nothing is as it seems. Sometimes it demands a change of viewpoint, sometimes a cutting loose to find freedom.
Local Fires sees debut writer Joshua Jones turn his acute focus to his birthplace of Llanelli, South Wales. Sardonic and melancholic, joyful and grieving, these multifaceted stories may be set in a small town, but they have reach far beyond their locality. From the inertia of living in an ex-industrial working-class area, to gender, sexuality, toxic masculinity and neurodivergence, Jones has crafted a collection versatile in theme and observation, as the misadventures of the town’s inhabitants threaten to spill over into an incendiary finale.
Men Alone:Stories - Özgür Uyanık
Artists, writers, lovers, killers: all types of men walk these pages, along the streets of Cardiff, İstanbul, London, Paris, Odesa and Lisbon. All seeking to find a way to belong in the world.
Men Alone is a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many – often confounding – permutations of modern masculinity.
Queer Square Mile - edited by Kirsti Bohata, Mihangel Morgan and Huw Osborne
The first anthology of its kind in Wales, which finally sheds light on a largely hidden queer cultural history with the careful selection of over 40 short stories (1837-2018). Spanning genres from ghost stories and science fiction to industrial literature and surrealist modernism, these are stories of love, loss and transformation.
Whatever Happened to Rick Astley? - Bryony Rheam
From Bryony Rheam, the award-winning author of All Come to Dust and This September Sun, comes a collection of sixteen short stories shining a spotlight on life in Zimbabwe over the last twenty years. The daily routines and the greater fate of ordinary Zimbabweans are represented with a deft, compassionate touch and flashes of humour.
Boys of Gold - George Brinley Evans
A collection of short stories, some set against the background of the author's life as a coalminer in the Neath valley and a soldier in Burma during World War 2, dealing with caring and loving relationships within families and coal-mining colleagues, and with formative wartime experiences. Together with one personal essay about the fellow miner and writer B. L. Coombes.
A Dictionary of Light: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology - edited by Elaine Canning
Featuring twelve bold, tender, brilliant stories from the winners of the 2024 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition, including winning story A Dictionary of Light by Tanya Pengelly. The stories within this collection, both traditional and experimental, present life in its myriad beautiful, heart wrenching, truthful forms.
View our full short story collections here. Use code ADVENT10 at the checkout to get your third short story collection on us! The offer will end at midnight on 13th of December. UK postage only 99p.
