Best English Short Stories III

"Short-story fans will relish this anthology…[The stories'] effect is timeless and comforting, bespeaking a kind of interchangeable and universal human spirit." —Cleveland Plain Dealer This is the sixth annual collection of stories we consider to be the best by British and Commonwealth writers since our last volume. The two Irish writers we include, even the solitary Scot, will have gown wryly used to being classed British. But these days it edges towards the patronising to assume that the ...