Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 (Mammoth Books)This superb annual anthology of the years most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in unearthing the best short crime stories of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish authors (along with a handful of US writers living in the UK, and some expatriate Brits). With this collection he showcases the impressive breadth of British crime writing, from cosy tales of detection

In a team that included some famously heavy drinkers

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day

The learnings of masters across generations

or destroy everything they've worked for

cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry

"O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights

and the tenderness of youth

and silhouettes of related animals comparing their shapes and proportions

For many years

Emma Sharpe is summoned to a Maine convent

is developing a sinister thesis about the races of men

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