El. knyga: Best British Short Stories 2013

Introduction
Alison Moore The Smell of the Slaughterhouse
Ellis Sharp The Writer
Adam Marek The Stormchasers
Jackie Kay Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon
Ross Raisin When You Grow into Yourself
Laura Del-Rivo J Krissman in the Park
Alex Preston The Swimmer in the Desert
Adam Lively Voyage
Charles Lambert Curtains
Anneliese Mackintosh Doctors
Robert Shearman Bedtime Stories For Yasmin
Nikesh Shukla Canute
James Wall Dancing to Nat King Cole
Nina Killham My Wife the Hyena
Charles Boyle Budapest
Lesley Glaister Just Watch Me
Guy Ware Hostage
MJ Hyland Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes
Regi Claire The Tasting
David Rose Eleanor The End Notes
Contributors Biographies
Acknowledgements

Nicholas Royle is the author of five short story collections Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories, London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than two dozen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who also published his White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector. Forthcoming is another collection, Paris Fantastique (Confingo Publishing). In 2009 he founded Nightjar Press, which continues to publish original short stories as limited-edition chapbooks.

Charles Boyle has published a number of poetry collections (for which he was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Prizes), a short novel (winner of the 2008 McKitterick Prize) and two books combining text and photography. He runs the small press CB editions. This is his first book of stories.

Lesley Glaister is the prize-winning author of thirteen novels, most recently, Little Egypt. Her short stories have been anthologised and broadcast on Radio 4. She has written drama for radio and stage and published a pamphlet of poetry 2015. Lesley is a Fellow of the RSL, teaches creative writing at the University of St Andrews and lives in Edinburgh.

Jackie Kay is a poet, novelist and short story writer. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the autobiographical Red Dust Road won the 2011 Book of the Year at the Scottish Book Awards. She lives in Manchester and teaches at Newcastle University.

Charles Lambert was born in Lichfield, the United Kingdom, in 1953. After going to eight different schools in the Midlands and Derbyshire, he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge from 1972 to 1975. In 1976 he moved to Milan and, with brief interruptions in Ireland, Portugal and London, has lived and worked in Italy since then. Currently a university teacher, academic translator and freelance editor for international agencies, he now lives in Fondi, exactly halfway between Rome and Naples.

Adam Marek won the 2011 Arts Foundation Fellowship in short story writing. His collection, Instruction Manual for Swallowing, was long-listed for the Frank OConnor Prize, and in 2010 he was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. He lives in Bedfordshire with his wife and sons.

Alison Moore's first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards (New Writer of the Year), winning the McKitterick Prize. Both The Lighthouse and her second novel, He Wants, were Observer Books of the Year. Her short fiction has been included in Best British Short Stories and Best British Horror anthologies, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and collected in The Pre-War House and Other Stories. Born in Manchester in 1971, she lives near Nottingham with her husband Dan and son Arthur.

Alex Preston was born in 1979. He is the award-winning author of three novels and appears regularly on BBC television and radio. He writes for GQ, Harpers Bazaar and Town & Country Magazine as well as for the Observers New Review. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent and regular Guardian Masterclasses. He is @ahmpreston on Twitter.

David Rose was born in 1949 and spent his working life in the Post Office. His debut story was published in the Literary Review (1989), since when he has been widely published in magazines in the UK and Canada. He was joint owner and fiction editor of Main Street Journal. He is the author of two novels, Vault (2011) and Meridian (2015) and one collection, Posthumous Stories (2013). Recent stories have appeared in Gorse.

Robert Shearman has published three collections Tiny Deaths, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Everyones Just So So Special. An award-winning playwright, radio dramatist and Doctor Who screenwriter, he is currently resident writer at Edinburgh Napier University.

Nikesh Shukla is the author of Meatspace, the Costa First Novel Award-shortlisted Coconut Unlimited and the Sabotage Reviews Best Novella winner The Time Machine. He is the host of The Subaltern Podcast and Dumsnet. He wrote Kabadasses, a comedy lab pilot for Channel 4 in 2011 and the award-winning short film, Two Dosas, based on his short story of the same name. His short stories have appeared in the Sunday Times, Best British Short Stories 2013, Too Much Too Young, Teller Magazine, Litro and Five Dials, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He lives in Bristol.

Guy Ware is a critically-acclaimed novelist and short story writer. His work has been listed for many awards, including the Frank OConnor International, Edge Hill and London Short Story Prize, which he won in 2018. Our Island Story is his fifth novel. Guy was born in Northampton, grew up in the Fens and lives in southeast London.