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The New Uncanny shortlisted for The Shirley Jackson Prize

The Shieling

by David Constantine
The much anticipated follow-up to Constantine's highly acclaimed Under The Dam.

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Stone Tree

by Gyrdir Eliasson
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
'In vivid and haunting prose, Eliasson shows how no man can be an island, as community intrudes upon their self-exile in the most unexpected ways.'
- The Independent on Sunday, 10 May.
'Almost every story in the collection is worth picking out for special mention... Stone Tree is unlike any story collection I have read. The stories felt fresh, crisp - perfect renderings of narrative ideas.' - Scott Pack, Publisher at The Friday Project, Harpercollins, MeandMyBigMouth, 29 June.
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Amuse-Bouche

by Arnon Grunberg
Translated from the Dutch by Ron de Klerk & Lisa Friedman.
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'Deadpan, offbeat, quirkily comic but steeped in loneliness'
- The Independent.

Long Days

by Maike Wetzel
Translated from the German by Lyn Marven.
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I Love You When I'm Drunk

by Empar Moliner
Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush.
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The New Uncanny

Ed. by Sarah Eyre & Ra Page
Featuring:
A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison Macleod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Royle, Ian Duhig, Matthew Holness, and Adam Marek.
'It’s not too great a stretch to see Comma as the literary equivalent of Factory Records.'

- The Herald, 2 Dec.
'Delightful and disturbing'
- The Independent on Sunday, 14 Dec.
'A masterclass in understated creepiness... a deliciously macabre collection that the old Austrian might well have enjoyed.'
- Book of the Week, Time Out, 12 Jan.
'If we need the uncanny – and I suspect we do – then we also need it updating... laudable.'
- Book of the Week, The Independent, 2 Jan.
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The Silence Room

by Sean O'Brien
Fiction debut from the multi-award winning poet
'The prose, winging between stateliness and the coarsest urban patois, is fluent and flawless...'
- The Independent on Sunday, 30 Nov.
The collection is as satisfying as it is stimulating... deeply unsettlingly... darkly thrilling.'

- The Independent.
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Madinah

City Stories from the Middle East
Ed. by Joumana Haddad
Featuring:
Nedim Gursel (Istanbul), Gamal Al-Ghitani (Alexandria), Fadwa Al-Qasem (Dubai), Ala Hlehel (Akka), Hassan Blasim (Baghdad), Yousef Al-Mohaimeed (Riyadh), Elias Farkouh (Amman), Nabil Sulayman (Lattakia), Joumana Haddad (Beirut), Yitzhak Laor (Tel Aviv).
'It is human for isolated people to experience places intensely and for the displaced to miss home...'

- The Times, 22 Nov.
'The desert cities bloom with unsustainable desire...'
- The Independent, 28 Nov.
'A sampler of the vibrant writing coming out of the Middle East...'
- The Saudi Gazette, 5 Jan.
'The anthology is perhaps more of an experience exchange, coming down to more than just culture....'
- Interview with Fadwa al Qasem Time Out Dubai, 16 Feb.
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ReBerth

Stories from Cities on the Edge
Ed. by Jim Hinks
Foreword by Franco Bianchini & Jude Bloomfield
Featuring: Alexei Sayle & Dinesh Allirajah (Liverpool), Valeria Parrella & Peppe Lanzetta (Naples), Pawel Huelle & Adam Kaminski (Gdansk), Claudia Parman & Artur Becker (Bremen), Murathan Mungan & Hatice Meryem (Istanbul), and Jean-Claude Izzo & Christian Garcin (Marseilles).

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