Best British Short Stories 2023

Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.

Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.

Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.

This new anthology contains stories by Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, DJ Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine and David Wheldon.

Contributor: Alinah Azadeh (Contributions by), David Bevan (Contributions by), AK Blakemore (Contributions by), Gabriel Flynn (Contributions by), Jim Gibson (Contributions by), Philip Jennings (Contributions by), Sharon Kivland (Contributions by), Alison Moore (Contributions by), Georgina Parfitt (Contributions by), Leone Ross (Contributions by), John Saul (Contributions by), D. J. Taylor (Contributions by), Briony Thompson (Contributions by), Matthew Turner (Contributions by), Mark Valentine (Contributions by), David Wheldon (Contributions by), Lydia Gill (Contributions by), Miles Greenwood (Contributions by), Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Contributions by), Nicholas Royle (Series edited by), Gareth E Rees (Contributions by)

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