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Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
Best British Short Stories 2018
I am more than pleased that my story, “Life Grabs”, which appeared online at Empty State in 2017, was picked out by editor Nicholas Royle to appear in Salt’s annual anthology of Best British Stories, which was published this week. Now in its eighth year, as ever its jam packed with the editor’s picks of his favourites from the year’s online and print publications, and it feels a real honour to finally make the roll call.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- A Cultural CatastropheHistory moves like an iceberg cracks, first slowly and hardly noticeably, and then with an almighty jolt, as the fissure becomes a calamitous crack. Brexit feels ever more like that iceberg. It is not a catastrophe built in days, weeks or months, though the running commentary since the vote will no doubt be subject of quite a few history books, but in years. […]
- Slade House by David MitchellI've not touched in with David Mitchell for a while, having not read his last major novel "The Bone Clocks", from which some ideas in "Slade House" are pulled out. In essence this is a book of ghost stories. The Slade House of the title did once exist but has since been demolished and built over, but once every nine years - relating […]
- Lit in September.Hideously busy, with one thing and another, so this is an inarticulate list. Buy, go to, check out.Michael Conley read from his new fiction collection tonight. Those who have seen him read know that Michael's great skill is to take ideas not just as far as they can go, but further. His story about a group of seals is another of his great animal stories […]
- The Viaduct by David WheldonThere was a brief moment in the early 1980s where strange, short minimal novels, often set in abstract or non-realistic worlds, were being published, partly as the influence of Ballard and Carter seeped into the works of the next generation of writers, and partly, I think, through a sense of longing for a more European cultural scene. Britain, with its rheto […]
- Farewell, my Lovely by Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler's novel "Farewell, my Lovely" is a 1940s noir classic, and rightly so; but its also, like a number of other older books I've read recently - "The Man in the High Castle", "The Day of the Locust" - a very strange novel. I'm not sure whether it is it's strangeness or its familiarity - those noi […]
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