THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2012

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
• 32 * What’s in Swindon? * Stuart Evers * ss Ten Stories about Smoking, Picador, 2o11
• 40 * Alice in Time & Space and Various Major Cities * H. P. Tinker * ss Ambit 206, Autumn 2011
• 51 * The Visit * Jaki McCarrick * ss Wasafiri 65, Spring 2011
• 61 * Half-mown Lawn * Dan Powell * ss Ether Books electronic chapbook 2011
• 67 * ‘I’m the Guy Who Wrote The Wild Bunch’ * Julian Gough * ss Grey 4, Spring/Summer 2011
• 74 * Those Who Remember * Joel Lane * ss Gutshot edited by Conrad Williams, PS Publishing 2011
• 85 * To Brixton Beach * Stella Duffy * ss broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 2011
• 92 * Wide and Deep * Socrates Adams * ss Metazen, March 2011 online (Canadian-based, apparently defunct since 2013)
• 95 * Tarnished Sorry Open * Jo Lloyd * 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
• 122 * The Room Beyond, (ss) The New and Perfect Man ed. Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2011
• 141 * iAnna * Will Self  * ss The Guardian, 9 September 2011
• 149 * The Heart of Denis Noble * Alison MacLeod * ss Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science edited by Ra Page, Comma Press 2011
• 176 * We Wave and Call * Jon McGregor * ss The Guardian Weekend, 22 July 2011
• 188 * All I Know About Gertrude Stein * Jeanette Winterson * (ss) Granta #115, Spring 2011 
• 199 *  Sad, Dark Thing* Michael Marshall Smith * (ss) A Book of Horrors  edited by Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books, 2011
• 217 * The Last Library * A. K. Benedict * Paraxis 02 online 2011
• 225 * Contributors' Biographies * Anonymous * bi
• 229 * Acknowledgements * Anonymous *