"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
Mark Morris (editor). Flame Tree Publishing. (320p) ISBN 9781787584624 I love a good collection of short stories and when I saw this on NetGalley I jumped at the chance of reading it. You often find that an anthology of short stories will often have several good ones, a couple of outstanding stories, and a couple …
Nayrouz Qarmout. Comma Press. (112p) ISBN 9781905583782 I’ve had this collection of short stories on the go for quite a while now as they are a difficult read, not that the words are difficult but the emotions those words stir are hard to process. Nayrouz writes poetically about situations influenced by her time in Gaza …
Scholastique Mukasonga. Archipelago Books. (160p) ISBN 9781939810786 It’s August so that must mean it’s Women in Translation month. I’d already lined up quite a lot of novels and novellas for the month I was in the mood for some short story collections and did a shout out on Twitter for some suggestions. Igifu was one …
It’s August and that must mean it’s Women in Translation Month. “Women in Translation Month is all about appreciating the great women writers who do get translated – and of course the people who bring them to us, their translators and publishers. It’s an opportunity to join in a worldwide conversation about outstanding writing from …
Mike Ashley (ed). British Library Publishing. (336p) ISBN 9780712352666 I picked this up at random quite a while back as I liked the cover and the concept of revisiting never before republished supernatural stories of the early 20th century. This is part of a larger overall series that the British Library is publishing, old supernatural …
ed Nisi Shawl. Rebellion. (320p) ISBN 9781781086384 This is one of the first books I requested from NetGalley and I’ve been so remiss in getting reviews done for the books I’ve requested that I thought I best start now and get on with it. New Suns is a collection of “Original Speculative Fiction by People …