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|title=Rags and Bones

|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)

|rating=4.5

|genre=Anthologies

|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=The Science of Herself

|summary=Unthank Books have brought out their third annual short story 'unthology'. (See what they did there?) The series is described as showcasing the ''unconventional, unpredictable and experimental'' which is correct as far as it goes. They omit words that I personally would have included; words like 'refreshing' and 'excitingly different' because, if I needed to be convinced about short stories (and, being a fan, I don't) they would be the clincher.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957289707</amazonuk>

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~~{{newreview~~

~~|author=Tania Hershman~~

~~|title=My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Short Stories~~

|summary=It's said that the art of short-story writing is totally different from that of novels as the writer only has ten or so pages to accomplish what others do in two to three hundred. Imagine, therefore, telling an entire story in prose conveying depth and meaning in fewer words than this review. It may be difficult but, apparently, not downright impossible as [[:Category:Tania Hershman|Tania Hershman]] has nailed it with honours. In fact her first collection [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]] was commended by the Orange Prize judges of 2009.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906477604</amazonuk>~~

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