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THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2012

*Nicholas Royle*
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, *edi**tor*

*Salt Publishing, 2012 (from their website, with added index information)*
SYNOPSIS

*The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British
Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers,
first published in 2011. These stories first appeared in magazines
from Ambit to Granta, in anthologies across various genres from publishers
big and small, and in authors’ own short story collections. They were
broadcast on radio and delivered by mobile phone app. They appeared online
at Metazen and Paraxis.*
TABLE OF CONTENTS

   - *1 * Introduction * Nicholas Royle * in*
   - *4 * I Arrive First * Emma Jane Unsworth * ss Paraxis 02 (online) 2011*
   - *12 * The Dark Space in the House in the House in the Garden at the
   Centre of the World * **Robert Shearman * ss * *House of Fear ed. Jon
   Oliver, Solaris, 2011*
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   - *32 * What’s in Swindon? * **Stuart Evers * ss Ten Stories about
   Smoking, Picador, 2o11
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   - *40 * Alice in Time & Space and Various Major Cities * **H. P. Tinker
   * ss Ambit 206, Autumn 2011
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   - *51 * The Visit * **Jaki McCarrick * ss Wasafiri
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   Spring 2011
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   - *61 * Half-mown Lawn * Dan Powell
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   ss Ether Books electronic chapbook 2011*
   - *67 * ‘I’m the Guy Who Wrote
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   Wild Bunch
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* **Julian
   Gough * ss **Grey 4,** Spring/Summer 2011*
   - *74 * Those Who Remember * Joel Lane * ss Gutshot edited by Conrad
   Williams, PS Publishing 2011
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   - *85 * To Brixton Beach * **Stella Duffy * ss broadcast on BBC Radio 4,
   2011*
   - *92 * Wide and Deep * **Socrates Adams * ss Metazen, March 2011 online
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(Canadian-based,
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   - *95 * Tarnished Sorry Open *
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   Lloyd
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   ss Southwestern Review, V. 96 N. 4, 2011*
   - *109 * Aperitifs With Mr Hemingway * **Jonathan Trigell * ss broadcast
   on The Verb, BBC Radio 1, 2011*
   - *115 * Sun on Prospect Street * **Neil Campbell * ss Pictures From
   Hopper, Salt Publishing 2011
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   - *122 * **The Room Beyond, (ss) The New and Perfect Man ed. Peter
   Crowther & Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2011
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   - *141 * iAnna * **Will Self  * ss
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   Guardian, 9 September 2011
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   - *149 * The Heart of Denis Noble * **Alison MacLeod * ss Litmus: Short
   Stories from Modern Science edited by Ra Page, Comma Press 2011
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   - *176 * We Wave and Call * **Jon McGregor * ss
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   Guardian Weekend, 22 July 2011
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   - *188 * All I Know About Gertrude Stein * **Jeanette Winterson *
   (ss) Granta #115, Spring 2011
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   - *199 *  **Sad, Dark Thing
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   Michael Marshall Smith * (ss) A Book of Horrors  edited by Stephen Jones,
   Jo Fletcher Books, 2011
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   - *217 * The Last Library * **A. K. Benedict
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* Paraxis 02
   online 2011*
   - *225 * Contributors' Biographies * Anonymous * bi*
   - *229 * Acknowledgements * Anonymous * *

*The Best British Short Stories 2012 can be read here.*
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