Tag: dark literature

Winning the Guardian Short Story Competition in 2009, Lisa Blower went on to be shortlisted in 2013 for the BBC Short Story Award and achieve Highly Commended in the 2015 Bridport Prize. Blower’s short fiction has featured in New Welsh Review and on Radio 4. New Welsh Review broadcast an interview with her in spring […]
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Goldfish Memory

Suzy Ceulan Hughes

PUBLISHED ON: 01/07/15

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‘Dinner with Dürrenmatt’, the final story in this collection, ends with the narrator quoting from Dürrenmatt’s The Promise: ‘I wished I was at the Kro …

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Thrown into Nature

Paul Cooper

PUBLISHED ON: 02/11/12

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If irony could be measured with some kind of Geiger-counter, it would be clicking like hell throughout Milen Ruskov’s novel, Thrown into Nature. In th …

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The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

Ffion Lindsay

PUBLISHED ON: 30/04/12

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Set in 1920s Narberth, The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals tells the story of Wilfred Price, a young undertake …

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