SHORT STORY REVIEW: ‘HOTEL DU JACK’ BY DAN BROTZEL

Review by James Holden Publisher: Sandstone Press 229 Pages Price: £8.99 ISBN: 9781912240876 Hotel du Jack is the debut collection from Dan Bro...

SHORT STORY REVIEW ‘THE DRESSING UP BOX’ BY DAVID CONSTANTINE

Review by Becky Tipper Publisher: Comma Press Price: £14.99 247 pages ISBN: 978-1912697212 The Dressing-Up Box is David Constantine’s fifth col...

Tips for Surviving a Kidnapping, by Hannah Storm

  Attempt to stop it by escaping when it initially occurs You should have stopped it when it first began. But you did not. Not when he took you hos...

SHORT STORY REVIEW: ‘TO THE VOLCANO AND OTHER STORIES’ BY ELLEKE BOEHMER

Review by Paul Woodgate Publisher: Myriad Editions 177 pages RRP: £8.99 ISBN: 978-1-912408-24-5 When luminaries such as JM Coetzee, Ben Okri an...

SHORT STORY REVIEW: ‘WITCHES SAIL IN EGGSHELLS’ BY CHLOE TURNER

Review by Jacci Gooding Publisher: Reflex Press 160 pages RRP: £8.99 ISBN: 9781916111509   Expertly observed, Chloe Turner’s debut coll...

A Gelato or Two, by Reshma Ruia

My mother fell ill in Rome. We put it down to exhaustion. We had left India, abandoned the bone and flesh of our familiar world to begin a new life in a country...

SHORT STORY REVIEW: ‘THE WORRY FRONT’ BY H.C. GILDFIND

Review by Laura Windley Publisher: Margaret River Press  296 pages RRP: £8.99 ISBN: 9780648027577 Every morning he lies there numb and stuck i...

Flash Fiction Interview: Johanna Robinson

Interview by Rupert Dastur Hi Johanna – huge congratulations on winning the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize 2020 with your piece ‘Yew’. What can you tell us abou...