A debut collection of weird tales from Will Wiles, the award-winning author of Care of Wooden Floors, The Way Inn and Plume.  Meer

Candescent Blooms is a collection of twelve short stories which form fictionalised biographies of mostly Golden Era Hollywood actors who suffered untimely deaths.  Meer

An academic visits a town for the first time, but is told he has lived there before; an elderly mother becomes overwhelmed by a sensual past; these are the sharply observed elements to three of the seventeen outstanding stories in this unforgettable collection by the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns.  Meer

This new short story collection from Clare Fisher explores of feelings of failure around gender, sexuality, and work, that arise in a success-obsessed capitalist culture.  Meer

These are tales from the twilit scablands – stories of austerity, masochism, migration, as well as unexpected laughter, music, even bubbles.  Meer

In Forgetting Is How We Survive, people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for lost futures. Each character faces a turning point – an event that will move their life from one path to another, and every event casts a shadow.  Meer

This collection of stories, written especially for BBC Radio 4, includes a ten-part sequence: ‘The Circus’, set around Cliftonville Circus, where five roads meet in North Belfast.  Meer

Howell’s much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narrative flair.  Meer

Eastmouth and Other Stories is her second collection, featuring stories published in the subsequent decade, including stories that have appeared in Best British Short Stories, Best British Horror and Best New Horror, as well as new, unpublished work.  Meer

Poppyland moves on from D.J. Taylor’s Stewkey Blues (2022) to offer more pitch-perfect reportage from his native Norfolk, bringing together a succession of characters who are hanging on from the lives they lead, in an attempt to do for the world of Norwich, Cromer, Hunstanton and Bacton what Annie Proulx does for Wyoming.  Meer

From the septuagenarian prostitute exposed in a tabloid sting to the Queen Bee of a local dramatic society upstaged by her cleaner; from the nine-year-old girl caught in the crossfire of her parents’ divorce to the widow stuck on an Antarctic cruise during COVID; these captivating stories paint a vibrant portrait of contemporary female experience.  Meer

Ambitious and playful, darkly humorous and imaginative, these strikingly original stories move effortlessly between the realistic and the fantastical, as their outsider characters explore what it’s like to be human in the twenty-first century.  Meer

Campbell's splendidly funny and touching work gives voice to people you don't hear much of in fiction: the working class of Manchester. A working class of Manchester in danger of being forgotten as the city's skyscrapers spread high and wide.  Meer

A Mancunian Kelman, Campbell’s dark and darkly humorous tales capture the various voices of society’s outsiders.  Meer