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|title=Best British Short Stories 2013
|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=Expect to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013'', sourced from a number of short story magazines; 'Granta', 'Shadows and Tall Trees', 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' are just some of the publications in which these pieces were to be seen first. If asked to identify a red thread between the components of Nicholas Royle’s anthology, I would say that in each short story, everything is left to simmer under the surface. There is a frustration brought about by the lack of clarity in every short story, which to me is a reflection of just how unclear the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involved.
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{{newreview
|title=This Close
|summary=It's over eighteen months since we first encountered John Flannery and his debut collection of shorts stories, [[Toby's Little Eden by John E Flannery|Toby's Little Eden]]. A golf course near Manchester and the characters who populated it came sharply to life and we laughed and we smiled along with them. Things are different in ''Our little Secret and Other Stories'' as we encounter violent death, suicide, delusion and mental illness. It's a good read but it's certainly not a comfortable one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007CKT6PG</amazonuk>
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